University of Cincinnati College of Medicine - Annual Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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The Greatness of Drake llLook hack to the great founder of your College of Medicine, Daniel Drake, and you will see in him two things-a man, strong. powerful. with genius, with force. and, a doctor, with special knowledge. Many men might have known far more about medicine than it was possible for Drake to know in his clay, and still have been small and insignihcant men in the history of any institution. What made Drake great were those qualities of heart and soul. the greatnces of Character which was made manifest in his determination, his energy and his will to succeed in founding here in the great interior valley of the continent, a. medical school which would provide practitioners for the people. who, in his vision, he saw must and would come to inhabit the fertile lands of central North America. HA5 a graduate of a municipal university tEdinburgl, said Sir Auckland in concluding, one of the oldest municipal universities in English speaking countries, I come here tonight with special and peculiar pleasure to congratulate you upon a hundred years of work well done, and to wish you Gocl-epced and prosperity for many hundred years to come. ADDRESS OF THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR Honorable john Barton Payne, Secretary of the Interior, was among the honored guests of the evening. He was introduced as one whose career from the early struggles of boyhood to a seat in the highest councils of the nation. typifies Americanism Flt its best. The Value of Research said Mr. Payne, llare given opportunity to make exhaustive study and research in all lines, it is impossible to prevent disease, it is impossible to develop in the leanred sciences. So it has been the function of the medical profession. not merely to alleviate pain and suffering, not merely to treat the ills from which we all suffer. but to anticipate disease, to find the source of disease and to stop disease at its source. so that now whole countries are bene- fitted by the research work of the officers of the Medical Corps. In looking around at this institution and other similar institutions and realizing how much research has done and is doing for this country I feel that the universities. the colleges of medicine, rest m the sure foundation of the one thing which makes life worth whileithe power, the opportunity and the capacity to render a ser- vice to nmnkind. I Unless 111011., ADDRESS OF DOCTOR JAMES ROWLAND ANGELL '1 count it a very treat privilege. said Dr. Angell, President of the Carnegie Corporation. 'tanrl a very great honor to be present on this occasion, as the representative of the Carnegie Corporation. which has had, in its turn, the privilege of giving to the life of Dr. Holmes, who lived and did his work among you, this highly deserved and all too meagre recognition of a lifetime of intelligent devotion to the highest form of human service. tThe Carnegie Corporation recently gave the sum of $250,000.00 to the Medical College to endow a chair nl' surgery in memory of Dr. Christian R. Holmes.J Page One Htmdred Eighty

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ADDRESS OF HIS EXCELLENCY. THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR With tliplnmnlii- tltttit-s. weighing heavily upon his hands. Sir .-Xuvkl:mtl Ilcddus, hntI rIePiinHI ntmwmus invitations to impurttutt at'l'uirs. Being himthI tt physit'inn. hrm'twor, ho was Very pleased to he present ill lht: Mcrliml t'ullc-gr C'tmtvnnizll. Daniel Drake. Founder of the Medical College Daniel Drukc. Siliti Sir Atlt'klttmlt 'Istnnrls nut ttmnng Iht' muliml ntt-n rul- lhis multincnt in n my that none nl' mmtcmpr-rariL-r. with pumibty unt- t-xrt-pliun. :10. Ht: was :1 1mm nf Inn's. :1 man of CharactL-t', a keen ultsurvvn u mun DI ptlhlit' spirit, :1an it man whose life work has becumr: u tradition among; you.H Sir Auckland cnmparod Daniel Drake tu Admiral NL'IHUIL Nttpnh-on. uml AIH'ahum Lincriln. pointing nut that nunc uI these great and pruminrnt mun hurl any Claim I'm what we i'irilintlrily cull education. thus It-tltlinp; ltp tn tht- topic hi.- hcul hL'ICCIt'tI l'ur tIist'ussiun. A Problem in Education IWFth ymt take at gt'ntlp nI mcn such 215 lhul. c'c'mtintltkd Sir .iXiir'Iclnnrl, :mtl realize how slight Vt'ilh theircurly at'hnulinjt', huw grt-ztl WilrsIIIlfIl' pt-I'Iirurnmm'u. I think everytint- must say to hintHcII or to hcrst'II-t'lut-s wInmIirm Filt't'itfri nn thI-nugh schools autcl through universities pruducu HHPII men :15 this. Dr. i5 then- HDI'IIUII'IIIIQ' about thu process 0f UdUCtlIItJll whivh diminishes tlw Inrt'c, lht' HtrL-ngth. 1hr: vigor uI thL- individual? It in' html tn pirk .1 man of u-ry high t-tILIt'alimt ilIJUllL thc timc HI Druku's Imyhriml ur :t fuw trs t'tlriit'r. whu nhmvul :mythin;r like the form..- uf thusc men whose names I have nmntimml. An Advantage of 3 Municipal University Many univmsilius lay Imt having ctmtatt with tht' active. Iiving t'ity. rt'utm't' their slutIL-rnts Irtmt the atmosphere nf liIL- imu u PIUIblCl'CfI tllIIItlhpItL'l'U 7am :tir thztt is unnatural that is artiht'ial, that is to them ennen'uling. m that. :tIttr they pass Imm the university, they haw lost much with nwn zuul with things. IF you Inuk hark at the careers of thnse names I nmntiunctl. you will 506' that they grew Strong, they wcrc brought nut. they lqurishutl IIqur lIItf stimulus ul' :tctivc uHuira of having to do and 1.0 live in u cnmmunity. The Purpose of Education I5 nnl this till? Itmdnmmttnl purporse of education? 'l'hut IIIL' hltltlt'lll. the I.?ny. the young man, the: girl. the young Woman. may pass utll intn lil'v :tppruciating God. Icncm'ing themselves. seeing things in prupurliun :mtl lIlllICl'- standing the spirit Iilf the age in which they Iivu qualified. pt'ril'rlllh'. with some IIFHIL'SHIUHEII knmvledge Which Will enable them to thk uptm. tn LICL wilIL tu derive their living from 111:; population in which thcy Iit't'. Essentialih'. I Ilelit'x't- that the function of education is to qualify tilt: individual to live in :1an :tmung hiya fellows 0f thttt tlaty, and to act uplm his gcncrztliun amtl to girl with Ihrmh tn play his part in l'I'IL' world of men. Anti, if that he the hmminn ul- t'clut'utinn, then surely a muniripul tmivt-rrtily is. II'H' plnrt- tt'ht-rt- it in most lilcvly tn IIL' nhtatined. Prtgr UM' Humirm' h'u'trt'uI-v-uim

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The Work of Doctor Holmes lllt is 'd great pleasure, Dr. Angcll continued, 'lm all of my t'olleugut'm on that Board that it should have been possible to make this gift. Unlike most gifts that we make. it was entriely unsolicited. I trust that that will nut deprive it of any nl its. value. My colleagues recognize the :tltngether unusual rharacter of the services of Dr. Holmes. in overcoming the ubstueles that lay before him and his colleagues. in bringing together the divergent interests of a group of institutions. in some measure rivals and CDn1pEtll0TS of one anothen in over- coming certain serious diHiculties of an administrative and govcrmncntal type. and in combination with the successful mastery of those problems, succeeding quite in establishing an institution whose bcicntiflc standards are secuntl t0 none in the worldithat is a liletime work. which One may lunk back upon with absolute pride. ADDRESS OF DOCTOR CHARLES R. STOCKARD In introducing Dr. Storkarrl, President Hicks said. The special place en mar program for the representative of the medical profession is Filletl by the distinguished Professor of Anatomy of Cornell University Medical Collegei one who ranks among the leaders in this important hold A Problem in Medicine l'The body lies newly born, said Dr. Stockard. 'lwhat shall we do to insure the best structural development of it? This question is not so familiar and the effort to answer has not been strong. Is'nt the building of better human structure a part of the medical field? Not by the methods. of the sentimentalist and prohibitionist. nor those of the idealist who wnultl resort to eugenics and regulated matings. but simply by the practical carpenter's method of making the best house of the material at hand. This is the true morphological problem in medicine: Does the Profession today do very much to make 21 structurally better adult from the baby material available? Med cine must reach out from the repair stage and learn to carry the Child through development into the structurally perfect machine. The Future Progress of the Medical College 'lln your splendid institution, said Dr. Stockard in concluding, 'lmay all of the elements concerned in the advance of the practice of medicine be com- hined to push forward in well balanced proportion this great PffllESSlUll. And when the second century of your Medical School is euntplelutl and an audience such as this shall look back on us of today, as we do on those cal tine hundred years ago. may they count their progress from what to them will seem our present primitive state of knowledge, of which we are now 50 justly proud. The best wish is that you may progress; and with the remarkable morphological combination of a body splendidly young in the strength of a vigorous faculty, in new laboratories and hospitals and at the same time so old as to he capped with the frosted dignity of a hundred yearSethis community must for its own sake, insure your advance. CONFERRING OF HONORARY DEGREES Following the address of Dr. Stockard, Dr. Louis Schwab, former Maynr of Cincinnati and distinguished alumnus of the Medical College spoke; the full text of his speech is printed elsewhere lll the Year Bunk. Page One Hundred Eigley-am