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

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TERRA MARIAE NINETEEN-NINE of Maryland, 1897-1900; Professor of Therapeutics, 1900 — . Dr. Mitchell began teaching almost immediately after his graduation, in 1881, and has been teaching continuously until the present, except from 1883 to 1885, when he was abroad. The successful teacher is one who imparts to his students something more than the information at hand. He must give something of himself, and this something is that idefinable thing called the spirit. If he is to show them the way into a larger knowledge and a broader freedom of thought, those who listen to him must be able to hear, not only his voice, teaching the precepts of knowledge, but they must be able to hear also, faint and far perhaps, the voices of those other teachers and workers who have blazed the trail from the early days of Grecian civilization down to our own time. This he must be able to do, and more. If the student is to be awakened to the best that is in him, the teacher must impress him with the beauty of wisdom, with a desire to sound the heights and depths of knowl- edge, not because of any special purely physical reward, but because knowledge is in itself a good thing. Those of us who have been students under Dr. Mitchell realize more and more as the years go by that our lips have been touched with a live coal from off the altar, that we have been influenced by the spirit of a man and a teacher, and if the fact that we remember and are grateful is any comfort to him who has led us, that comfort is his in fullest measure. . iM 15

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NINETEEN-XINE TERRA MARIAE I)racticed in Paris as a licentiate of the University of France until his death. He was a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. From 1862 until 1864, Prof. Richard AicSherry lec- tured on Materia Medica and Therapeutics. Then there came to the chair Prof. Samuel C. Chew, and he remained in this teaching position until 1866, at which time he became Professor of Principles and Practice of Medicine after Dr. McSherry ' s death. Dr. Isaac E. -Atkinson was elected Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in 1886, and continued to teach both branches until i8q6, when the chair of Professor of -Materia Medica was created for Dr. Mitchell. Dr. .Atkinson continued to teach Therapeutics until 1900, when he resijjned his chair, and Dr. Mitchell was made Professor of Therapeutics. From that lime until the ])resent Dr. .Mitchell has continued to teach Thera- peutics. Even if one runs over tlieso names in the most cur- .sory manner he cannot liel] being impressed. Big men have occupied this chair ft is inspiring just to think of tliem and their work. Tlio.se of us who enter as teachers the old lecture balls of the University feel that we are walking on holy ground, and if we have eyes that see and a heart that under.stands. there are times when we almost seem to get a glimi se of these men, who, though they are dead in the body, still live on in the spirit in the memory and affection of hun- dreds of University alumni .scattered over tlie world. The chair of Diseases of Women and Children was created in 1867 for Dr. William T. Howard, who already had become well known both in the South and in Baltimore. Dr. Howard was at this time forty-six years old. This was the first distinct chair of its kind in any medical school in America. Dr. Howard con- tinued in this teaching position for just thirty years, until 1897, when he resigned. In the meantime he had become one of the best-known teachers and sur- geons in this country. One can scarcely think of the University at this time without associating with it the name of Prof. William Travis Howard, known far and wide as Uncle Billie by himdreds of men who had been taught by him. After his resignation, in 1897, Dr. Mitchell was made Professor of Diseases of Children, and this chair lie now occupies, together with that of Therapeutics. Charles William -Mitchell was born in Baltimore, February 4, 1859. He took his Bachelor of Arts degree at Princeton College in 1879, and later received the Master ' s degree from the .same institution. He graduated in Medicine from the University of Mary- land in 1 88 1 and was examination medalist. He was . ssistant Resident Physician, University Hospital, 1881-1885, and Resident from 1885-88; Lecturer on Tathology. 1888-93: Professor of Diseases of Chil- dren, Woman ' s Medical College, Baltimore, 1893-94 ; Professor of Clinical Medicine, University of Mary- land. 1893: Professor of Materia Medica. LIniversity of Maryland, 1896-97; Professor of Disea.ses of Chil- dren, University of Maryland, 1897; Dean. LIniversity 14

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XLVETEEN-NINE TERRA MARIAE Arab mtr ia Academic Day, the first celebrated by the Univer- sity of Maryland, took place Wednesday, November ii. 1908, at Westminster Presbyterian Church, was a notable, interesting and impressive event, not only in the educational circles of Baltimore, but also in those of Maryland, as the day marked the one hundred and nineteenth anniversary of the opening of St. John ' s College, Annapolis, which embodies the Departments of Sciences and Arts of the University. lieing, as the name indicates, a day set apart for the bringing together of members of all departments of a great university, it was only fitting that an elaborate program should have been prepared — a program which was carried out with all the dignity identified with one of the oldest institutions of learning in a city famed far and near as an intellectual center. In the impressive academic procession which assem- bled in the various buildings of the University there marched representatives of each department student body — the St. John ' s men in their smart uniforms of gray and black and headed by their band ; the high offi- cials. Regents, members of the Faculty and others in the distinctive caps and gowns authorized by their academic degrees ; guests and alumni. PROF. JOHN C. HEMMETER. M. D., PH.D., LL. D., PRESIDENT OF THE CENTENNIAL AND REGENTS ' COMMITTEE 16