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

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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

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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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TERRA MARIAE NINETBEN-NINB Among those in satin and velvet were college presi- dents, noted instructors and men prominent throughout the land as leaders in the foremost ranks of their indi- vidual professions, authorities upon the law, eminent judges and practicing attorneys, famous physicians and medical investigators and masters of other professions and arts. The entrance to the historic old church was made in the following order, while Mr. Robert Leroy Haslup, of Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church, played Wagner ' s triumphal entry march from ' ' Rienzi : Students of the Department of Arts and Sciences. St. John ' s College. Students of the Department of Medicine, Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors. Students of the Department of Law. Students of the Department of Dentistry. Students of the Department of Pharmacology. The Chancellor, Provost and Regents of the Uni- versity of Maryland, Faculties and adjunct Faculties. Orators and guests of the tJniversity of Maryland. Alumni of the University of Maryland. The students remained standing until Mr. Bernard Carter, Pro-Chancellor and Provost (who presided in the absence of the Chancellor, Governor Crothers-) , the Regents and guests reached the platform. Rev. Thomas Grier Koontz then delivered the invocation, and a vocal quartet composed of Messrs. Frederick H. Weber, H. Rea Fitch, B. Merrill Hopkinson and Harry M. Smith sang the one hundred and thirty-third Psalm, beginning Behold how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. Mr. Carter explained the significance of the day, in that it served to bring into closer association the com- ponent parts of the University. He gave an historical sketch of the institution. Speaking of the day, he said : ■ ' It seemed appropriate that we should select the day which is also the one hundred and nineteenth anni- versary of the opening of St. John ' s College, which antedates the foundation of the University itself; and also that we should have this, the first of our academic celebrations, in this old edifice, the history of which is known to all. Distinctive features of the exercises were the ad- dress by Dr. Charles Willis Needham, President of George Washington University, who, in speaking upon Efficient Men, the Aim of University Training, com- pared memory mongers, mental charlatans and fakirs to the men of true merit and worth ; the unveiling of a memorial tablet to Major James Carroll and Dr. William H. Welch ' s address upon his heroic work on the Army Yellow Fever Commission, and the confer- ring of the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws upon Dr. Thomas Edward Satterthwaite, of New York. When Dr. Welch arose to speak upon the life and worth of Major Carroll, his popularity with students of all departments was voiced by more than one min- 17