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

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Iunia Rrzszntatinn HE deeds of good men are soon forgotten, the acts of bad men are also soon forgotten, the works of genius alone remains. NIV' During the existence of all organizations there are times when B the acceptance or refusal to hearken to thelcalll of Opportunity means the success or failure to that organization. Ever SIHCC the entrance of our class into this department we have had. I mf X l'! am glad to say, ,numerous opportunities to show what were our aims and purposes. It has been a most gratifying experience to hnd that our ideals were high and our attainment of these ideals has been marked with singular success. One of our most notable achievements, one in which all of us feel a pardon- able pride, one against which the only criticising words Were heard from upper classmen, was the presentation of a clock to the Veterinary Department in our junior year. Coming as it did from a class of undergraduates, whose destiny to become future Veterinarians is often dark and surrounded with doubts and fears, its presentation is all? the more to be wondered at. Like Caesar, we came, we 42

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GYMNASIUM, FROM FRANKLIN FIELD

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saw and we conquered. Wfe came to this University when the new wing to the Veterinary Building was not yet erected, and' as many of us had been used to a clock in a tower, we felt the need of one here greatly. VVe saw that when the new wing to the Veterinary Build-ing was completed that provision had been made by that wise and far-sighted' man, Dr. Leonard Pearson, for a clock to be placed thereon. Wfe also saw that if we left our opportunity for giving this clock gopast until we were graduated and scattered, some other class would embrace the opportunity and ours would be a case of regret. VVe conquered, but this word is a misnomerg for there was little or nothing to conquer. Everyone seemed to catch the spirit of the occasion simultaneously, for great tasks and small details were accomplished with the utmost dispatch. None seemed to want to shift his share of the work to some one else. So the necesary work went merrily on and in a few weeks our efforts were crowned with success. Finally the day for the formal presentation -of our gift to the Veterinary Department arrived. The ceremonies, though not elaborate, were surrounded by concern on our part lest something should mar the crowning moment of our success and the appreciation of the gift by the representatives ,of the University and the Faculty and students of the Veterinary Department. Dr. Horace Hoskins acted as master of ceremonies and introduced the sev- eral speakers, who were seated on a raised platform in the courtyard beneath the clock. Pennsylvania spirit made itself manifest by the way that Hail, Penn- sylvania was sung, led by Mr. Carosella. Dr. Hoskins, with appropriate remarks, introduced Mr. H. G. Wferntz. President of the Class of 1912, who presented the clock tothe University in general and the Veterinary Department in particu- lar. President Vlferntz, in his well chosen remarks, expressed the motives and purposes of the entire class in regards to the gift. He said it was the desire of the class that the opportunity, which we as a class embraced of giving some- thing that was useful and ornamental to the Department, would serve as an ex- ample to future classes in making' a similar gift. In this manner the equipment of the Department would soon be completed and graduating classes will leave behind them a monument more desirable than marble and more useful than bronze. Dr. Louis A. Klein, Dean of the Veterinary School, was next introduced, who accepted the gift in behalf of the Veterinary School. He referred to pre- vious gifts of tablets to the memory of deceased professors to the Department. Dr. John Marshall, in the absence of Provost Smith, accepted the gift in behalf of the University. The gift of a clock, he said, was a gift to education, to en- courage the undiligent student to be on time at instruction. He hoped that future classes would make gifts of gray matter and that particular hand be chemistry, so that subject would be easier to the average student. Dr. Carl NV. Gay was the next speaker, and said that this was the first insti- tution of learning with which he had ever been connected that did not have a clock. He thought it would be a good plan to have the hour nine in the morning indicated by an illumination of the dial so that tardy students could not fail to know at what hour instruction for the day began. At this juncture a photog- rapher took a picture of audience, speakers and clock. Dr. Karl F. Meyer in his remarks was of the belief that this clock would get him in trouble, as he was habitually late in getting to the Department in the 43