University of Maryland School of Pharmacy - Terra Mariae Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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Hon. Henry Stockbridge

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Editorial Board, 1906 Editor-in-Chief William F. Fulungs Associate Editors RoBKKT W. Crawford Walter W. Derr James K. CJilder E. Reynolds Thome Ernest B. Hutchens Frederick D. Carpenter Albert H. Carroll W. Stuart Symington Homer U. Todd Joseph T. England Business Manager Chester B. Gifford f tM ' J - 13

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Our Alma Mater By Judge Hexry Stockbkidge. On till? tlii ' t ' .sliold 1)1 ' a jiniFi ' ssidnal i-aii ' ei ' the I ' aci ' nf each iiiir is iiatui ' ally liii-neil forward. Tlw idea predi)iiiinaiit in the mind is akin to tlie attitude of the runner in a race, crouchinu ' and with nerve and muscle strainel to cateh the starter ' s word and he off. There is no time to think of that which is heliind. Tlie shot rin s out. There is a foi-wai ' d sprini;-. The struuyle has heoun. hut tin ' linal yoal is far away. Keen of eye must he the one wlio can see it. For most it is invisihU . ' i ' h( way to be passed over is long, and lieset witli ohstacles untliought of or unheeded wlien m joyous confidence over the course hegan. A litth ' way fmm tlie start and one lags behind his fellows, and then drops out. Then another and another aliandons the contest. Those in front are nu ' antime changing their relative positions. The ones now leading were slow in getting away when the ' start was made, hut the struggle is none the less earnest. The iletermination actuating those who still remain is more real tlian ever before. And so the race i oi ' s on. Who that has ever watched the runners as their swift feet ily along th ' path will fail to recognize the picture thus crudely suggested? ' hat is it which eiiahlcs oiii ' to hold his ]iace when others fall behind or abandon the course!- ' The coach u ' ill ti ' ll you staying power, or wind. Has this a cori ' elative in the life of the ]ii-ofcssional man? II ' so. in what does it consist? The enthusiasm (if ymith has passed into an adage. A ' c look upon its dis- play with jileasure. Let but a few brief years pass by in the life nl ' the indix iiliial. and an exhihition of the same sentiment will be pityingly alludeil to as provini-ial or bad IVirm. Eather should these deprecatory ti ' rms he applicl to such a critic-. But for the professional man, in the exercise of his vocation, a repression of this natural sentiment, becomes not a matter of choice, but a necessity. Whither has this long e.xordium ti ' iulcd? To hut a single thought. Thr enthusiasm of youth means this: that he wlm can preserve this sentiment, preserves his youth. The passing years may bear their trace in whitening locks, but he econies not old who kee])s the ardoi- oF his college or university days. Com- plete repression of expression of a sentiment like the I ' epression of a physical function soon destroys. If, as .seems to be the case, the ]irofessional man of the ]iresent needs must stifle in large degree the ])lay of the youth-giving emotion of his earlier years, let it find an opportunity for expression in other ways. 15