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

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FR.-XZIER OPERATES

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This is fhe Class of l93l's book. 'We have been af Penn since Sepfember of l927. Whaf evenfs will we wanf fo remember: whaf emofions have we experienced: whaf have we learned in our four years' residence here? We will wanf fo remember fhe buildings-from fhaf ancienf fhird-floor dissecfing room fo fhe mosf modern laborafory of fhe Maloney Clinic. We will wanf fo remember our classmafes-from fhe boys who were on eifher side of us fo fhe fellows af fhe opposife end of fhe alphabef. We will wanf fo remember our feachers-from fhe meanesf deaner fo fhe professor of medicine. Whaf emofions have we experienced? We have palpifafed before fhe firsf and fhird year examina- fions. We have frembled before some professors: we have fhrilled before ofhers. We have seen fhe apalling misery of fhe darkesf slums. and we have wafched fhe miracle of a dying man being given back his life. Whaf have we learned? Alfhough our knowledge of medicine viewed againsf fhe background of human learning is ver slighf, yef absolufely we have learned a greaf deak Mosf of all, we have been faughf a scienfific skepficism which fhough slaughf- ering fo firm fixed ideas is fhe only mode by which fhe human race can progress. This volume, fhen, is fhe record of fhe lives of one hundred and fhirfy-four medical sfudenfs for four years. We are nof afraid fo leave if openl