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

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second year and we always suspected that it disappeared into the great void of that long curved pipe of Dr. Booth's. Despite all the horse-play we were still Dr. Booth's boys and today as we look back we can all sympathize with him and admire him for the patience he possessed. All in all, our work in Anatomy, Dr. Lentz's inspiring lectures, and Dr. Booth's untiring efforts and determination to help us whenever possible, were just the start many of us needed to carry through the heavier trials we were yet to meet. G23 ANIMAL INDUSTRY COURSES URING our short, snappy, and un' eventful careers at the Veterinary School, we were exposed to several animal industry courses by Dr. Dick. These courses are similar to Animal Husbandry courses taught at state colleges and agricultural schools. It is not the purpose of these courses to make animal husbandrymen out of us, but to teach us something of the care, manage- ment, production, and feeding of all forms of livestock. I'm sure that none of us will leave our Alma iVIater and tell a farmer to feed all his livestock an apple a day to keep the horse doctor away. Nor will we innocently exclaim upon seeing a female of the ovine species of any age, '6Ah, an ewef' as did a lad in one class, when he was most brutally shaken out of the land of slumber by Dr. Dick. He was most likely counting his ewes. A brief review of all our courses during our four years would sum up to something like this: Equitatirm: Kentucky bluegrass, limestone soil, paddoeks, and barns filled up our first encounter with Dr. Dick. The horse in service, his capacity for work, the construction and management of stables, horsemanship, bits and bitting, riding and driving, seats and saddles, were all gone over in our first year. The most surprising things about the course were the six re-exams at the end of the year. Dr. Dick, you will never know how we hated to build that ideal horse farm all over again. Breeds of Livestock: This time we learned that Kiane is an old Anglo-Saxon word mean- ing cow. That Andrew and Amos Cruikshank weren't two Scotehmen on the same boat going to America, but were conservative Cas most Scotchmen arej breeders who produced the Scotch Shorthorn breed of cattle. Between Jerseys and Guernseys,Shropshires and Hamp- shires, we were in quite a maze of breeds, until we started to study for the final examina- tion. Then we were in a fog. Market Types and Classes: We now know that canners aren't men that put something into cans, but are cows, etc., that go into cans. That hat racks are old, thin dairy cows in the canner class, and not hooks for derbys. We learned that every nation in the world buys some part of the American hog. Our hogs must be some pigs. VVe know the difference between chuck, shank, plate, round, and loin. VVhen we come to loin, we think of dinner. hlaybe that was the reason we were always so anxious to get out that year at five minutes of the hour, Dr. Dick. GEORGE ALEXANDER DICK V.M.D, B.S. in A.H. Professor of Animal Influstry and Dean of the Faculty

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ANATOMY DEPARTMENT N THE last week of September, nine- teen hundred thirty-six, a group of rather dazed and expectant young people gath- ered together within those sturdy brick walls at Thirty-ninth Street and VVoodland Avenue, to be launched on that dangerous and tempest- tossed sea of the study of Veterinary medicine. Among the various subjects which tried our assorted crafts in the early years were three, all grouped under the heading of Anatomy. If the faculty sought to make us anatomy conscious they certainly succeeded for we seemed to have anatomy in one form or another for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. However, the very routine manner of embryology, histology, and gross anatomy lectures and lab, acted as a stimulus to our sense of humor as well as our cerebral cortex, through which it was necessary to hack and carve out new paths of thought and reasoning. lXIany there were who succumbed to the operation. Nevertheless it can only be with a feeling of satisfaction and pride and surely with a great deal of pleasure that we look back upon those early days. One of the most impressionable things was Dr. Lentzis practical demonstration of the arrangement of the fetal membranes by the use of a couple of pencils, a handkerchief, and a piece of chalk. In addition, whether for the purpose of keeping the students awake or merely to limber up a few muscles, the good Doctor's setting-up exercises in the pit were certainly entertaining. There wasn't one among us though, that didn't admire and envy his extensive knowledge of anatomy and his com- mand of English and vocabulary. Then came our first day in Histology Lab. Herein we were informed by Dr. llatthews that we were about to make an extended and prolonged foray upon the impenetrable for- tresses of histological sciencef' and we certainly were a little astounded by this new wonder. CDid I hear someone mention Silver-Tongue?D live heard it said, though it isn't mentioned publicly, that some among us had the course cinched, but the boy from Harvard left a few exams behind as a parting token. VVe can well remember his desire to weed out the plumbers and the paperhangers. But of all, the greatest memories come from ELIAS T. BOOTH, V.M.D. A S-91i8tll7lf Professor of Veterinary A nnlomy those many hours spent in Anatomy Lab. Of course we'll admit that the majority of them were olefactory in nature, but even these failed to keep Boyer awake Whenever the opportunity to snooze offered itself. VVho can forget the young love we saw blossom there, or shouldn't we speak of the deceased? Kava- naugh and Kerlin did some of their earliest collaborating there. It must have been the trials of those early years that brought them so close together. VVe can still hear Hughes, getting bawled out for cutting away that therei' trapezieus muscle. Ah yes! It all happened in tl1e days of the mighty Baruch-who feared no man. It was here that Karl Persichetti first learned the folly of wearing a good cravat, and any one's overalls were good material on which to test a sharp scalpel. George Fleck never received the acknowledgment from the scientific world that was his due, for the discovery of that anatomical phenomena-the rectal mouse trap. Here, too, in the second year of our struggle for scientific enlightenment the student body took to the lecture platform and Kaplan and Parker made the Keystone meeting with their work on the eye and the ear. Frank Ardito lost his steam valve accompaniment in the

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Stock Judging: Pleasant remembrances of the Pennsylvania Stock Yards will remain with us always. It is too bad, Dr. Dick, that you would never agree with us on our placings, you didn't seem to believe in the majority rule principle. It is a good thing for the class that there were a few men in it that had stock judging previously or else there would have been a lot of animals flattered to death, and a lot insulted to death by our amateur stock judges. The Veterinary School track carnival at the VVidener Farms, starring Flash Ger- berich and Speed Gleiser, crack milers, will also not escape our grey matter. Both men didn't look any too flashy or speedy when they got to that tape which seemed to be run- ning away from them. Speed Gleiser hasnft been doing any speeding since then, but that is because everywhere he goes, he sees Go Slow signs. I am sure the Dean will not forget that trip either, after putting his hands into his coat pockets and finding them full of sawdust. No, Dr. Dick, we didn't put any sawdust in your pockets. Nutrition: Classification of soils, soil physics, maintenance of soil fertility, classification of foodstuH's, their production, preparation, and use, and nutritional diseases comprised this year's course in our Junior year. This was our most extensive course. We did everything from plowing to building silos, and filling them. Our most difficult problem, however, was deciding how much proteins and car- bohydrates to give a cow so that she would give us a lot of milk, and not lose her shapely angles. Gone with the wind: Aeolian soil. Poultry Husbandry: Here we met up with a League of Nations in the Avian world. Spanish, Polish, Andalusian, etc., chickens were among the delegates. VVe learned how to please our fine feathered friends with nice coops, proper diets, the right kind of atmos- phere so they would give us our morning eggs. I'm sure that many of us have eaten so many eggs for breakfast during our scholastic careers that we can't look a chicken in the face. The most exciting incident that occurred in connection with this course was the unusual explosion under the hood of Dr. Dick's new car at Dr. Goldhaft's laboratories at Vineland, New Jersey. Maybe it was sabotage. The strangest things do happen over there in Jer- sey. It is a fine state Cgeneral opinionj. Genetics: The last roundup. On our trail to journey's end, we stumbled and nearly tripped on many a chromosome and gene. In algebra we learned that x X yzxy, but now they taught us that xXy: gives you a lot of weird combinations. Crossing overs and link- ages nearly caused some crossing over of the gyrgi of our cerebral grey matter. You told us, Dr. Dick, that Mendel failed his final examinations because of exhaustion, and over- worry, so please donit be angry with us if some of us should fail ours. That will prove that we were very conscientious in our extensive studies, in spite of the fact that in our first year you told us not to worry too much. It is in this final course that the so-called rail birdsi' were at the height of their careers. Spitballs and rubber bands were the newest accessories for the study of genetics. Every- time the post mortem corps would come into class slightly belated, one was reminded of a Nazi Blitzkrieg by the goose-stepping genet- icists. Now that it is all over, I think it is only proper that we thank Dr. Dick for his ever- lasting patience with the noisy bicentennial class and the railbirdsg for his untiring efforts to teach us something about animal hus- bandry, and to hope that he doesn't get another class like us. -'Q BACTERIOLOGY OW, men, I could make this the hardest course in the school. If I Inadc you learn how these organisms grow on this and that, how they take this stain and that stain, whether they ferment lactose and pup, pup, pup . . . g impractical. Only man could use it is a laboratory man and you'll have to learn all over again if you go