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

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mmph Tt lias been said that a b(X)k which needs an apology should never have been written. However, the exigencies of our school life de- mand that a year took be produced, and this book is submitted with the usual, the inevitable apologies. An old Greek quotation, regard- ing the crown of wild olive of the Olympic games, says that it were indeed of gold had the gods been richer. And were the editors richer in time and ability, this book had been of better quality.

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BOARD OF EDITORS.

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NINETEEX-NINE TERRA MARIAE The production of an annual is essentially an academic undertaking, and those who in a College of Arts and Sciences engage in the task may eke out a scanty reward of thanks, with the knowledge that their gain in the art of composition recompenses in some measure for the time lost from more specific subjects. Wisely or vmwisely, it has been made one of the traditions of the University that this book be prepared by Seniors, and that a large part of the work shall be done by members of that department which yearly seems to make greater demands upon the time and energy of its students. Far be it from us to take ourselves too .seriously, but with the approach of the close of our school work there comes even to the unthoughtful the stern insistence of the fact that if the patient does not improve, or the filling drop out, or the prescription be not properly compounded, or the indictment not correctly drawn, there needs must be, with which to answer the world ' s indignant cjuery, some good and sufficient reason. Therefore, if this annual is not quite up to what might fairly be expected, or shows signs ])athognomonic of considerable haste and much ineptness, we crave from you your kind for- bearance. Here, also, it is proper that we set forth what shall be the aim and character of our book. Imprimis, there will be in this publication no invidi- ous distinction, no immune list, no praise on one page and blame on another. Those there be, and many, both among our fellow-students and members of the faculty, toward whom our years of association have brought only the kindest feelings of esteem and friend- liness. And if their good works are passed by in silence, it is not that we are unmindful of those who have shared with us the variegated fortune of student days, or of those who combine in their relations to us the high qualities of teacher and physician. And be it now known that if there is found in the subject-matter any statement complimentary to any person or thing connected with the University, it may be put down as a mistake or an oversight. The faults and mistakes of our fellow-man are what make it possible for us to live with him. The prag- matic doctrine ; that that only is good which serves, is die final work-a-day test, and a fault is only a virtue writ too large. Herein it is intended that such overgrown goodnesses shall find due recognition and advertise- ment. Brierty, it is hoped to make this book a reflex of the lighter side of our schooldays and to present a little of that nonsense which, parsons are wont gravely to assure us, is relished by the wisest men. And to this rule we trust that our wise men will prove no exception, and also, if there is found herein nothing extenuate, there will be found also naught set down in malice. With the i)ublication of such a volume there enters also a feeling of sadness. Our first eflFort as editors both begins and ends a brief career as writers. Too soon we shall leave the University to enter upon a broader and more expansive field — to apply what has been so excellently taught, but wc fear to inapt pupils.