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matthew Beardwood, fl. m„ m. D. 'TpfiftjAI THEW BEARDWOOD was born at Cape May. New Jersey, on tire 22nd of June. 1871. His father was ,M I| engaged in business in this city and was a member of the Select Councils. When the subject of this sketch was but •bree years of age. his parents removed to Philadelphia, where his father engaged in the cloth finishing business in lafC-!1 the manufacturing district of Fairmount. Philadelphia, and later at Kensington, Philadelphia. Dr. Beardwood received his early education in the public schools of Philadelphia. In his seventeenth year, he received the A.B. degree from the Central High School. Philadelphia, after his completion of the regular four years’ course. Five years later he received the degree. A.M.. from the same institution. During the years. 1890 and 1891, he specialized in Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1891 he matriculated in medicine at the Mcdico-Chirurgical College, under the preceptorship of Prof. James M. Anders, and in 1894 was graduated from that institution with the degree. M.D. Within a very short time after receiving his degree, he was appointed Resident Physician at the Medico-Chirurgical Hospital. where he also served the internship for one year, 1894-1893. In 1893 he was elected Lecturer on Anatomy at the I raining School for Nurses, in connection with the Mcdico-Chirurgical Hospital and simultaneously received the appointment as Assistant in Gynecological Surgery at the same institution. In 1896 he was elected Instructor in Chemistry and Medical Physics and three years later appointed Lecturer on Clinical Chemistry at the Medico-Chirurgical College. In 1900 he became Adjunct Professor of Clinical Chemistry and Toxicology in the Medico-Chirurgical College. In 1914 the same institution appointed him Professor of General Chemistry and Toxicology, which position he still holds. Dr. Beardwood was called to Ursinus College in 1903. at which time he accepted the chair of Chemistry. He is still engaged in his medical practice, but his college duties confine this to office work. He is quite frequently called into the courts of Philadelphia, where he gives testimony as an expert chemist. He is affiliated with the following organizations: I he American Chemical Society, the American Medical Association, the Pennsylvania State Medical Society and the Philadelphia County Medical Society. He is also a member of the Rox-Irorough I odge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. For the past ten years and at the present lime he is ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church. Duiing his entire career at Ursinus. Dr. Beardwood has gained the respect and esteem of the entire student body: however. he is best known and appreciated by the students of his own department. The study of Chemistry is conceded to be one of the most difficult in the college, but. due to the personal interest which Dr. Beardwood takes in each one of his students, the course thus presented is made both attractive and profitable. He is widely known as a scholar, a Christian gentleman, a professor of great breadth of culture, an instructor of such kindness and patience that he has won the friendship and honor of all who know him. 5
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To college friends of many years I o those gone far away. To those who linger with us still. Our life we here portray. Nineteen Sixteen ever loyal. United in each task. I las striven earnestly to leave True record of its past. Greeting The scholar and the athlete here Are given proper praise; Each lolly standard of the school Our class has helped to raise. To you. kind friends, this Look we lea e. And trust that you will find Each page with fondest mem’rics filled. Cf richest, rarest kind. c
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