University of Southern California - El Rodeo Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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CHARLES WILLIAM BRYsoN, A.B., M.D Dean College of Physician: and Surgeons

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College of Liberal Arts IVE traits have been said preeminently to distinguish the educated man: First, correctness, precision and ease in the use of the wealth of resources in his mother tongue, second, refined and gentle manners, the natural out- growth of fixed habits of thought and action, third, the power and habit of refiection, of attaining to and applying fixed standards of truth, human expe- rience, and wisdom, by which new proposals may be judged, fourth, the power of growth, the ability to escape more and more from the limitations of provin- cialism and to attain to increasingly broader views of character and conduct, and, finally, efficiency, or being an effective instrumentality in the affairs of mankind. The College of Liberal Arts of the University of Southern California exists for the purpose of producing men and women of this type. Her graduates should be gentlemen and ladies in soul and conduct, with breadth of vision and depth of insight, ready of speech and effective in action. To be what they should, they must be brought in contact with the moulding infiuences of each of the great classes of studies, historic, philosophic, scientific, linguistic. To do in life to the utmost of their capacity, they must be given especial training in that particular line of endeavor that is best suited to the natural endowments of each. The attainment of both these ends necessitates a combination of required general studies with an elective major or special department of study, and furthermore, these purposes determine the organization of the College into Lower, Upper, and Graduate Schools. As Freshman and Sophomore the youth comes in touch with the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome , he elects a magic key that will open to him the treasures of a foreign realm of thought, he explores the wonders of nature in the domain of plant or animal life or seeks to understand the great natural laws that control the combinations of the primal elements, he studies the operations of the human intellect, and he cultivates those potencies of the written word that shall give him power among men. And thus, through contact with many activities, is he given wisdom to select his future work. For he finds many fields open before him for special cultivation: History, Sociology, Economics, and Political Science, Philosophy, Education, the Literature of his own tongue, the languages of Greece, Rome, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the Orient, studies in the Bible, Music, Oratory, Art and Design, Mathematics, Botany and Zoology, Physics and Chemistry, and the applied sciences in the various departments of Engineering. One of these fields he makes in a special sense his own, and his are to be the fruits thereof, if he be worthy. In this field he labors for two years more, reaping where others have sown, not, it is hoped, selfishly appropriating for his own good, but rather seeking to obtain that he may bear to others the riches that have come to his hand. That they may be, in the richest sense of the word, worthy of their oppor- tunities is the high prayer of their Alma Mater for all her children, past, present, and in the long generations yet to come! A. G. 11 v 1 ' h fp!-W' - f 'Q 9' SQ

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College of Medicine N these fn de .viecle times when professional schools throughout the country are striving to attain that Utopian shade of efficiency in keeping with present time educational advancement, the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the University of Southern California's Medical Department, has moved up in the very front ranks of the leading and up-to-the-hour medical institutions of the day. The light of advancing requirements in medical and surgical teaching has spread broadly into every department of this now strong and thoroughly established institution, until the efficiency of its various departments is marvelled at by men who know. Medical education at the present time is carried on along different lines from those that marked the progress of this work a few years ago. The routine method of teaching of a period rapidly passing, has given way to an established system of scientific research into the realms of the causes of diseases and to the eradica- tion of those causative factors which, when discovered and understood, as is rapidly being done, will make their management and control scientifically pos- sible. Scientific medicine has done more to alleviate human suffering and human misery in the past decade, than any other factor in man's wonderful achieve- ments. The minds of thinking people, made responsive by a broader education, and all that it implies, are awakening to a realization of those facts and are turning their faces away from superstitious impossibilities and are looking to scientific medicine to protect the human race against the ravages of sickness and disease, with the remedies and means that an omnipotent mind has placed within the reach of scientific men and women for scientific application, and not by means of the ostentation and cant assumed by unscrupulous or uneducated people upon an unsuspecting and credulous public. The College of Physicians and Surgeons is a scientific and broad institution of medical learning in all that the term implies, constantly advancing its require- ments and raising its standards, in keeping with other high class institutions throughout the country. The dean of this school, with the sanction and aid of the President and Trustees of the University, backed by a powerful faculty of the leading men in the profession in this city, has built this school up to its present high state of efficiency and will continue to advance its standards and make its efficiency felt, in keeping with the times. The University is proud of its medical department, the medical department is proud of the university, and the student body, by its loyalty, in the future as in the past, will make a greater advancement possible. CHAS. W. BRYSON, M.D. 13 T - -f if-WJ Q.. f s QNEQS