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

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I am here this afternoon at John Marshal1's request and not because I have the wit, the words, or the worth to speak on this occasion. But I am capable of offering a tribute, inadequate though it be, to him as a friend of many years, and as au old pupil. An old pupil in the sense that several decades have passed since I was under his eye as an undergraduate student, but always a devoted pupil in the sense that my acquaintance with him has taught me that conscientious accuracy must be the constant motive in a man's life. Men having such characteristics rarely appreciate that. without effort on their part, they inspire in all who come in contact with them a love of truth for truth's sake, and John Marshall was one of these. In great towns and villages, in laboratories and hospitals, there are today a multitude of men, who knowingly, or unknowingly, do the right thing because of his example. Would that they could have all come together during his lifetime, told him this fact, and thereby rewarded him for his priceless influence. How often the teacher dies without such evidence to brighten his declining years, so that we join the poet i11 saying: Why do we wait till ears are deaf Before we speak a kindly word And only utter thoughts of praise When not a whisper can be heard.? In these days of great commercial activity the man who loves science for its own sake stands out among the throng as does the beacon light above the dreary coast line, not only because of the purity of his motives, but because scientific investigation so pursued, leads other men to travel the same- path, with the result that true knowledge becomes manifest and his fellow-man is the ultimate beneficiary. There are some men whose lives are like narrow, noisome alleys in a great city and others whose lives resemble broad and open highways, always Hooded with God's sunshine and fresh air. Such men lead other men to tread the streets, or road, which I have just described, and so pass into the great open spaces of happiness. John Marshall belonged to this class. In the words of Oliver Wendell Holmes: A whiter soul or fairer mind A life with purer thought and aim, A gentler eye, a voice more kind, We shall not hope on earth to find. The love that lingers round his name Is more than fame. Bowed in grief, those who knew John Marshall as comrade, student, teacher and investigator, thank God that for untold years after his death his influence for all that is good, all that is brave, and all that is noble, will continue to be felt, and the motives that animated him during life will be as a benediction upon those who were privileged to call him friend, 25

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Zin jllilemuriam PROFESSOR JGHN MARSHALL i Professor john Marshall died on January 6, 19:25, after an illness of several years' duration. , He was born in Reading, Pa., on February 9, 1855. Dr. Marshall was a student in the Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg from 1873 to 1876 and graduated in Medicine from the University of Pennsylvania in 1878. He then spent three years studying in Norway, Sweden and Germany. Beginning the teaching of Chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania he was appointed Assistant Demonstrator of Practical Chemistry, which position he held in 1878 and 1879, after which he became Demonstrator of Chemistry until 1889. He was appointed Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology in 1897 and held this position until 1922, since which time he has been the Emeritus Professor. From 1889 to 1897 Dr. Marshall was Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. From 1892 until 19073 Dr. Marshall was Dean of the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania. Scope was fortunate in getting from Dr. ll. A. Hare a copy of his address at the funeral of Dr. Marshall, which follows: 24

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,S r. Genrge hmunh he bthtneinitg 5-UB., ,f.'IlI.A., EJELD., QDLZII., ILE., Dim. Itlrnfvmanr nf Qllpltthalmnlngg IEHJZ--1524 By Dr. T. H. l'l0110-zeuy Dr. de Schweinitz returned to the University from the jefferson Medical College in 1902. lfrom that date until the time of his retirement in 10:2-L, it was my pleasure and privilege to serve under him as hospital or personal assistant, although in 1898 I had served as his intern at the l'hiladelphia General Hospital. With these facts in mind my keen appreciation of the privilege of noting these few remarks will he hetter understood. After a college training at Moravian College he graduated from the University in 1881 and later served as intern at the Children's and University Hospitals, From 1882-87 he quizzed on Dr. H. C. Xafoods' lectures on Therapeutics and acted as Proseetor of Anatomy for the illustrious Leidy from 18825 to '88. What an inspira- tion these two men must have been to him at the age of twenty-four. After serving a year C1891-1892j as Lecturer on Medical Ophthalmology, he was appointed 26