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

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In the words of Goethe, iiDie That ist Alles; Nichts der Ruhm. ilFame is naughththe deed is all. The Father of Medicine coined the wnrrl 'iPhilanthmpy and in a memurablc sentence coupled it with polytechny. the love. of handicrafi. iOSIerJ The love of humanity and of work. 'lihey encompass justice and truth, hope which is faith. charity and love. Combined in one man they form character of the type exemplified by Christian R. Holmes. From LhaL character something intangible fused with something in ourselves intangible, and made us better. Facing eternity hc indited three letters, t0 the citizens of Cincinnati, the Directors of the University and his colleagues of the Faculty. In them he laid bare the endless love that was in his heart for the triune institution, of which he was the iife. Before these letters I bow in reverence for they are the benediction of a great soul winged for flight. I am inspired with infinite hope and confidence in our Alma Materhhis and mine. I see her way clear and alighL for another hundred years. Page Seventeen

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material for his now forgotten work. Holmes traveled thirty thousand miles to get blue-prints of all the great hospitals of the world. Four times he went before the people at the polls and four times they voted their trust in him and his colleagues. With a few of them he interested the wealthy. They became mindful of the adjuration of Lake, the physician, who said, for unto whom- soever much is given; of him shall be much required. There was directed a great current of generosity towards this school. May it soon grow to pmu portions short of swamping, so that the names of some now gone. who have helped much to give it national standing may not altogether perish. Bricks and mortar alone do not make a university. Dr. Comegys. Presidents Ayres and Dabney, among others, had the visinn of a great school before Holmes. but it was through his foreefulness. that as through a lens they read their own thoughts slowly. Says Emerson, I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, and to which other men rise with labor and ditiiculty. He has but to open his eyes to see things in large relations. From the very beginning of his conception, hospital, college and university were the three in one to him. The Final achievement was the work of his hand and brain. With tireless energy and singleuess of purpose, applied during fifteen years. Dr. Holmes was the central driving force that built a medical unit which is today unsurpassed by any, and equaled by few. The homage paid his memory a few months ago knew no distinction of class. Cities are made famous not by the number housed within them. but by the ideals for which they stand. 011 this basis. the art school, the symphony orchestra, the co-operative educational plan. the municipal university and the unification of medical interests in one great unit as a part of the University, have added more to the repute of our city than anything else. The Medical Department is a success in proportions beyond even the Vision of its second father. Drakels faculty had four professors, with twenLy-four students. The lecture room was the second story of a store. The Legislature awarded Drake ten thousand dollars for the First hospital. of which the College professors were to be the staff. The gift was in depreciated bank-notes. It amounted to lhirty-live hundred dollars. The hospital cost eight thousand dollars. Today the hospital with the annex for tuberculosis has room for one thousand patients. It has its social service, work room for patients, and a school room for crippled and injured children. the average daily attendance of which is lifty-one. There are now sixty professors in the Medical Department, with an attendance of over two hundred and hfty. The college is today far too small to accommodate all the desirable applicants. One hundred and twenty five were turned away this year. Times change, and it is difficult to compare men of different periods. It was said of Drake that he had many irons in many small fires. By com- parison, Holmes forged the erank-shalt of a Mauritania. The name of Holmes. like that of Drake, may in time be forgotten by all save some delver in mustv history; but generations to come will reap from the seed which the one soweii ahd the other lertilized. Who built the pyramids? Who designed St. Peterls? h e5, who detailed the plans of the Panama Canal? Their names are unknown to most. or if known at all will soon be forgotten, but their creations stand. Page Sixteen

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DR. CHRISTIAN R. HOLMES Page Eighteen