University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine - Scope Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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intervals to relieve the monotony and add to the attractiveness of the course. ln the years ahead of us there'll be many a time, l am sure, when, in a pipe dream perhaps, will come back the picture of one of the big old lecture rooms, with its tier on tier of seats running way up to the ceiling, with ever-diligent grinds gathered in respectful attitude on the front row, impressing the good old doctor who gave the lecture, with their devotion to the cause. Then came the lesser lights, and so on up until we'll remember those choice spirits who could manage to read a new spaper or take a nap right through the hour. But if we did grow lazy sometimes, as all good fellows should, we did our share of work and of listening, too, for it made us straighten up just to think that we were lis- tening to a professor ofthe greatest medical school this side the water. , However, 'we learned the theory of medicine and if our patients don't get well, that is not our fault. Human nature is perverse anyway, and how can we tell but that it will be better for the poor soul to leave this vale of tears than to struggle along, trying to make connections with the almighty dollar. After all, we shall be merely assisting fate, for surely he wouldn't die if it lnadn't been so appointed, and if it had been so appointed it would be manifestly improper for us to fail in doing our part to see him safely off-l think that is the way the doc- trine reads-so we can console ourselves by saying : Sic volvere fJt1f'CllS.H tYou will pardon the classical flourish-not that l believe in it, but to refute the base assertion that the Meds. are incapable of it.J Yes, the time has gone in routine fashion and l hope we will soon be real doctors, however little we may feel like them. Our class has its individuality, too, and if it were not for the well known modesty of 1904, l could mention some achievements in original research that might well give us the right to attention. And not only in our own line of work have we done our share, but I could, if it were necessary, tell of our part in all the varied life of the University. And now it's almost time for us to salute old Pennsylvania for the last time as undergraduates. lt has been good to bump up against each other clown here, to meet each other inside and outside of the Medical Department, to remember that the work we have done, has been done not by each of us alone, but by all standing together. We've plodded together, we've worked in the morning hours together, we've had our midnight lunches together, we've flunked to gether, we've passed off the tlunks together, we've--well it's unnecessary to be specinc-but those four years have been a part of our life we shall like to re- member-a part of our life, all the fuller and better because we could live to gether and share it with its light and its shade. Afnd now as we break up, and each fellow starts for himself to build by himself his own castle in the air, we'll wish each other good luck and a long life. On lifeis wide scene you, too, have parts That Fate ere long shall bid you play 3 Good night! with honest gentle hearts A kindly greeting go alway. Mm! I-1. Bikle I4

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law ei' I I Qllaaa Biatnrg ' ' I And here's a hand, my trusty here, And gie's a hand o' thineg And we'll tak a right guid willie-waught For auld lang sync. lt seems like yesterday that we first gathered together in the old Medical Hall--every fellow there wishing, l suppose, that the four years ahead of him were ending instead of beginning. And now the four years are almost gone, and to-night as we lay aside for awhile our Surgery and Medicine and remind ourselves of all that has happened in those four years, it doesn't seem like such a short time after all. There has been plenty to do, goodness knows, and-well we did work pretty hard that first year, though, as the State Board approaches, a fellow does wish he had been a trifle more assiduous in his attentions to Chem- istry and Physiology. l imagine though, we were about as diligent as Freshmen generally are, and, not being familiar with modern methods of making good grades with little work, we plodded along with commendable zeal. Of course, the dissecting room was the delight of our Freshman hearts. You remember how curious we all were to see it, and how we wanted to get to work on our own particular stiff 3 how everybody was careful not to seem in the slightest degree to End the work other than enchanting. We seemed to realize that the fellow who could experience anything in the way of a queer sensation was not born to be a doctor, and like Br'er Rabbit, we were all eager to prove that we were bred and bawn in a brier-patch, and could think of no climate more agreeable to spend the rest of our days. l believe if you were to own up fair and square, you would have to admit that the first touch of that cold, clammy thing wasn't quite so pleasant as getting a good handshake from your best friend-yes, it was a queer sensation, and though we all played the game, it was some little time before we were on such good terms with our clammy ac- quaintance onthe dissecting table that we could eat our apples and pretzels in his presence without a feeling that-well, let us say that we felt it was rude when the poor fellow couldn't share them. But we got through all right, and though there wasn't much left of our friend when we left him, at any rate he had the honor of being the Hrst corpse with whom the members of the class of IQO4 had been what you might call exactly intimate. One thing that makes the time seem short as we look back over it, is that it has passed in so much the same way-a round of lectures, clinics, laboratory work and ward classes with examinations thrown in at pleasant i3

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Ibm' Zlieprrzzntatthez in liniheraitg lbrganizatinna FOOTBALL DAVID DALE Half-back, 1901 Varsity ' Quarter-back, 1903 Varsity BASEBALL W. JUDD CROOKSTON-1st Base, 1902 Varsity ALBERT J. DEVLIN-Pitcher, 1901-04 Varsity Captain, 1904 Varsity WINFORD O. WILDER-Left field, IQO2-O4 Varsity TRACK TEAM . , . Cliamwionshiv 2-mile Rela Team, lK.O2-O PRED H' KLMZR Member Traclk Team, IQOZYO3 J 3 EDMUND RUSSELL-Member Track Team, 1901-04 Captain Track Team, IQO3-O4 ROWING FRANK R. HOLBROOK-Varsity Four-oared Crew, 1903 FENCING CYRUS W. FRIDY-PI'8Sldt3I1t, Fencers' Club, 1902-03 Manager, Fencers' Club, 1903-04 UNIVERSITY SHOOTING TEAM GILMOR WREY S. FARWELL-Member, IQOZ-O3 BOWLING JAMES CROWE-University Champion 1903 BOARD OF REPRESENTATIVES WILLIAM G. FOX-Vice-President, 1902-03 President, 1903-04 CYRUS W. FRIDY-Member, 1902-03 FRED H. KLAER-Member, 1901-02 JAMES C. MARKEL-Member, 1902-03 CHARLES M. NICE-Member, 1901-02 JAMES W. LEECH-Executive Committee, 1903-04 UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS PHILIP S. STOUT-Associate Editor, Pennsylvanian 1904 Correspondent to Old Penn Weekly COMBINED MUSICAL CLUBS WAYNE L. SHEARER-Banjo and Mandolin Clubs ROBERT H. W. STRANG--Leutlel' Banjo Club, 1901-04 President Combined Musical Clubs, 1903-04 JAMES W. LEECH-Glee Club, 1902-04 Associate Leader Glee Club, 1903-04 HOUSTON CLUB FRED H, KLAER-President, 1903-04 CYRUS W. FRIDY-Chairman Membership Committee WM. G. FOX--Membership Committee HENRY J. NICHOLS-Library Committee UNIVERSITY GUIDE ASSOCIATION 'Q PHILIP S. STOUT-President, 1903-04 15