University of Cincinnati - Cincinnatian Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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A. C. Bach meyer. M. D. Dean of the College of Medicine P«E¥T]EDICINE is rapidly acquiring the status of a Science because of the increas- ing success of its efforts to banish superstition and mysticism, eliminate specu- lation and uncritical empiricism and to found its knowledge upon observation, experiment and inductive reasoning. The physician and surgeon, as well as the inves- tigator should possess the proper attitude and spirit of scientific inquiry in order that the wonderful progress of recent times may be continued. The most important elements which contribute to professional success are essen- tially characteristics of the individual, namely, character, personality, industry, train- ing and constant study. It is the hope of the Faculty of the College of Medicine that you may have been imbued with the scientific spirit while obtaining your fundamental professional train- ing and that with the further development of these essential attributes you may achieve successful careers. s € 4 ' 23

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L. T. More, B.S.. Ph.D. Dean of the Graduate School S73OU, MR. EDITOR, have urged me to give your classmates a parting word «f| which may live with them in future years. The best I can do is to remind f ifpj them that they have had, during four years, the privilege of learning the great legacies from the past in both letters and sciences. Recollect this experience as frequently as possible in order to enjoy the happiness of a full life and, from a knowl- edge of the success or failure of other times, to perfect a sound judgment in meeting the problems of the future. While most of you will not enter the Graduate School, yet it has unobtrusively been responsible for the scholarship which you have enjoyed. It is told of Saint Antony, of Padua, that he became a great leader of thought and conduct by first retiring into the desert; men, observing his disregard of ordinary affairs, out of curiosity followed him to his retreat in great numbers that they might learn of his power of self-control; so scholarship, as a true guide to life, should be sought for and ought not seek men that they may discover its rewards. c. ' 7 n Co 22

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Merton L. Ferson, A.M.. LL.B. Dean of the College of Law J TFvJ } NOTED philosopher has lately said There are many who believe that our iS ' iJlyJ civilization has outgrown the capacity of the human intellect to manage it. ■ ' ' Sn Social evolution has gone on with startling rapidity. We live in more con- gested communities, move about faster, sustain more complicated relations than ever before. Man ' s power for good and evil increases as. science puts new tools at his com- mand, but his need for control does not abate. Neither moral law nor divine law affords adequate social control. We must rely on human devices and the problem is directly up to the lawyers. It behooves the state to build up a bar that is worthy of this responsibility. Society need not expect our law or its application to transcend the character or calibre of the men who administer it. An individual approaching the bar should realize that his own interest requires thorough preparation. There is a surfeit of half baked lawyers; but the world never offered better opportunities for able and well trained lawyers than it does today. tKtAfam C. Jj . J(S A- r s 24