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

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age and spirit, and tnduy it is the College Of Medicine of the University of Cin- cinnati. The union of the medical schools as part of the University was; an enormous step forward. But it was apparent: that to bu worthy the school must have new buildings, more teachers and increased teaching hospital facilities. And as in the early part of the Nineteenth Century there had been one outstanding Figure to point the way Daniel Drake. the pioneer teacher of medicine here, so new in the early parl of the Twentieth Century another lender came forward. Christian R. Holmes was a man with visitin. He dreamed a great dream Hi 3 modern hospital combined with a modern medical school in a union so strong that none might break it. With Holmes, to think this was tn feel it as a para- mount necessityito see its value was to work instantly, definitely zmri perv sistently toward the accomplishment tit his ideal. It is in no sense a disparagement 0f the men who have wrought for the upbuilding of our medical schuui since its union, to say that Holmes was ever their leader. always their inspiration. He wrought unceasingiy until the new Cincinnati General Hospital stand complete -:t model of its kind. He labored without rest until the new Medical School stood fully equipped for the teaching of medicine in accordance with the best tenets of the day. It was in largest measure perhaps due to Holmes that in 1916 the union of Hospital and Medical School became a reality. And men mnrveied and said: Truly this is a wondrous thingf' And still Holmes knew that neither bricks and mortar nor mere endowment cmi'lrl ever make a real school for teaching. He saw the necessity for menifor teachers who with proper facilities might give reai education to students. He gathered about him the ablest men he could get to buiid up his faculty. And his crilleagucs with never a thought of former Sehisms stood loyalty at his side and helped. And so there has come the new spirit into Medical Cincinnatiethe college has taken its place among the better medical institutions of the country. It has an honorable past; may we not hOpe tor a glorious future? In the hull of the Administration Building nf thL' Hospital, on opposite walls are two tablets. one to Daniel Drake, 'iBuilder of Civilization in the Ohio and Mississippi Val- leys, the other to Christian R. Holmes, HWhose Vision of a City's duty to its sick stands revealed in this Hospital and Medical School. Page Twenty-jizie

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