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

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To the Members of the Class 0161925 To you, the Class of 1925, I would fain express my deep appreciation of the honor you accord me in dedicating to me this volume of The Scope. My appreciation is the greater by reason of the opportunity your action affords me of conveying to you my best wishes and hopes for your future success and well-being. In selecting medicine as your life work, you have chosen an exacting mistress, one so exacting that she mayrseem at times to be tyrannical and despotic. But the rewards she offers are great-not necessarily of a material character, but in the opportunities she affords for mental and spiritual growth and for service to society. For the giving of self to others, is after all, the key-note of earthly happiness. That one may not become sordid and cynical in the practice of a profession whose demands upon physical endur- ance, mental equilibrium and spiritual equanimity are often exorbitant, the cultivation of the things of the spirit is the essential thing-the possession of high ideals and the unremitting effort to realize them g the consciousness of the obligations imposed by the fact of being an alumnus of an Alma Mater of great and inspiring traditions and by the fact of having been adjudged worthy to assume the role of adviser and minister to those in distress of body or mind. With Noblesse Oblige inscribed upon your banner, Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart, and may all good things attend you. x mov?

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igrager OI-I, JUST, SUBTLE and MIGHTY LORD of LIFE! who hast fashioned out of the dead elements of the earthg this marvelous human organism that we have weighed and measured 5 touch our souls with the Promethean spark that we may never know weariness, nor diseouragement nor defeat in the pursuit of knowledge! Exalt our hearts that our work may be brave and earnest and true 5 that we may go on kindly ministries down lowliest waysg that we may be one in spirit with the great minds that in all ages have been the divine in- struments in the evolution of the race-and in the end-grant us the gift of dreamless sleep-OH, JUST, SUBTLE and MIGHTY LORD of LIFE. 9