University of Virginia - Corks and Curls Yearbook (Charlottesville, VA)

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mg! MMWMM HE sons of the University of Virginia who have attained great eminence have done so principally in the fields of Law and Politics. It has bee come a commonplace that when the relative number of students is cona sidered, this University, as represented by her alumni, carries much more weight in the national councils than any other institution of learning in the country. For this reason people are pr one to overlook the fact that much work of the finest quality and of unique usefulness has also been accomplished by alumni of the University in other fields equally as important as that of state craft, if by their nature less conspicuous. This consideration applies in particular to the realm of Medicine, in which the University may well take pride in the work of her sons, for all that they may not have been heralded by shouting multitudes. In the department of investi- gation the signal achievement of Major Walter Reed C6D in exposing the carrier of the yellow fever bacillus received world-wide will make his name forever memorable. The accomplish- ments of such men as Major Reed as investigators, find their natural complea