Ursinus College - Ruby Yearbook (Collegeville, PA)

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P. Cabin 211enscb, a. Hi, HIT., Pb.P. R. MKNSCH is one of Ursimis’own sons. His preparation was made at a preparatory school in Pennsburg, Pa., his native town. lie was graduated in the class of ’87 at Ursinus. There are still rumors extant that while in college the Doctor was one of “ the boys,”—sincere and earnest in his work, yet ever ready for legitimate fun and an innocent joke. After graduation he entered Bellevue Hospital Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1889. Subsequently he spent a short time as a student at the New York Post Graduate School of Medicine. In the fall of 1889 he matriculated at Grant University, Athens, Tenn., from which institution he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1891. In the fall of 1891 he was elected to the chair of Natural History at New Windsor College, Maryland, which position he held until the following year, when he entered Johns Hopkins University, for the purpose of continuing his study of biology. After completing a year's work at Johns Hopkins, he was elected Dean of Claremont College, N. C. In 1893 he delivered the Alumni Oration at his alma mater. His stay at Claremont College was of short duration, for Ursinus had need of him. In January of 1894 he was called upon to open and take charge of the Department of Biology at Ursinus College. It is in this field that the remainder of his yet comparatively short life's work has been accomplished. Kntering upon his position with no established precedent, crude laboratories before him. and very few students with which to l egin his couise, he has accomplished marvelous results. To-day the Chemical and Biological Laboratories of Ursinus College, for working laboratories, rank with the best in the state. The Chemical-Biological department and course are probably the most firmly established of any offered by the institution. Graduates of this department are admitted to the second year of all the medical colleges in Pennsylvania. The Medico-Chirurgical offers a free scholarship each year to the graduate who has attained the highest grade of scholarship in his course. The head of this department takes no low place as an educator. The highest aim of his teaching is to direct the student to observe for himself and to interpret what he sees. He is the constant companion of the student taking his branches. 11