University of the South - Cap and Gown Yearbook (Sewanee, TN)

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Medical Department ' I IF. history :hf the Medical Department his liccrt e1i;le nf gmu-Lh. From. lLh very in- ccptimi it ha fitlod an important place in ilu: economy of the. University. Numer- ically it is Lht: Lange.il of nil tike depart- ments. Nor is this its only claim to dus- linclion. Ic is fiir ;mJ away, the department of study. Within the shadow of Thompson Hail the Sons of ii-scu- lapius seek a deeper knowledge of the healing art, They rise with the lark and lights may be seen in the Medical Uuilding far into the right. They know no rest Their very dreams by night are bloody. To their slumbering eyes, mangled limbs, dead bodies, bistouries, scalpel Si bandages, erythrocytes, and polymorpho-nuckus neutro- phils are constantly present. Thus it is that the medical student, constantly buried in work, finds but little time to devote to the more eng ig- ing sides of university life. But the faft that he docs not enter into the fullness of this life, is by no means a sign that Ik docs not take an interest in them In faft, while outwardly be scoffs at the studied negligence of the aca- demic student, making fun of his cap and gown ; the truth 15, that In his secret heart of hearty buried side by stik- with his (owe for Gray Anatomy, is a sneaking clqsi™ Ed do the same thing. And l 1 this desire i gratified, for on Cnmmenecnitm Day trie M hIk, mimci-nt ,-inJ unsuspecting, are summoned K come and elwthe ihuin lves in garments, which cling like cerements, in gou ns of learning and robes nf dignity. And thus it is that yearly the poor Medical IX-pLrtitttfiii is roped out and robed into Chapel to h through their drcarj ' hour while certificates diplomas and decrees art- being bandied from mouth to mouth in a. foreign tongue. This was not the case at the last C nnm ;neenient. Warned by experience of the tortures fb t a-wajlfrl them, •du oj tun ajp [ti tyo ouj jo a ucxioSoo ov A sp ' K 3 H ' pear at Chapel in academic costume and instead, hied to the woods to circumnavigate with the ticks and red bugs. Witness the wrath of K. I.. V. when In.- set-i the wnful want of Med . Straightway LH.nitr. ;l harsh reprimand and (he Vteds ;i.re much fnghicatcd. They promise to err no marc and arc reinstated in the good graces of the Father of i he Healing Art, l r. John 2 . Cain. I have s;iiil th.ii the Mcds outwardly scoff at the other S waitee students. This is not altogether true, Tor there arc men in the Medical Department who have set the pace at SewilWc Vim will look long in the Academic Depart- ment ihj find athletes of recent years who can compare with IjiMoyno. Rupert Colmorc, Lee and Kphraim Kirhy- Smith, and Fmn In the famous games of iq 2 against Vanderbilt, no less than four of the members of the team were from the Medical Department. The social side of medical life is not wltolty ignored. Lffl the unwary summer girl betake herself to the Supply Stint some Saturday night about 5 o ' clock and she may M.-c a procession of white robed spirits, headed by a devil [Vl

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Medical Department

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in ™d whose Lrtxipliii if [lie skull and bones. She- ivISl see them snatch fnmi the crowd, the fated student, blindfold him and east him in chain . He i.s the newest initiate of ihe Alpha K;i|j( a Kappa, Medical I ' Valcm ity. TIik (t rm% one of iht: |jIc;L afliest (idea of professional life: arfld EnCtn- bcrahip ji Scwanee. since there is but one fraternity, is considered a prized tumor. And thus ii is. the Electa spend their lime. They work much and play little. They watch eagerly and off times, in ran, for Dr. We.it to fill his lecture hour when that txc cl- ient liitk- surgeon Ls marooned on some country road with hi s minalure automobile, Upon snuit 1 after- noons they may be seen trooping to the lin«- pilal to witness a clinic triidginfj in the hot sun, climbing the lonj hills, Filial with perspiration and, desire to sec :md undl the gore of the Operating room. But it « worth while in the end. !!■■■ -■-■ m«n who go out from mir VU:dic;d Ih-furtment and who have taken their full nrfc u?n do as much credit to Sewanee as any of the v?u»(c J Theologa, They have as much Sewsnw spirit and arc just .,- imiL-h L-wiincc men as he wfeo en tea the Academic De- IMTtrtlcnt and sports kirjttdf Oil University Avenue fur a (few shun summers and n seen no more forever, l t us hope that wc may have more students- who. come to SemiKA for their full four ™ar s and less who come Ihtc tor one se-ssior. and who rarely brinff credit to Scwanee. I,ct iht: other students of the University extend the hand of fellowship to the med- h-iil student and let us all work foe lIh; unbuilding of Stwitivr. [33]