Yale University School of Medicine - Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

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I am under obligations to the following members of the Class of Ninety-seven for the articles over which their names appear: Mr. G. Totten McMaster, Mr. E. D. Chipman, Mr. R. S. Graves, Mr. F. H. Todd, Mr. J. A. Lee, Mr. B. F. Corwin, Mr. F. I. Nettleton, Mr. A. E. Loveland, Mr. W. F. Penn, Mr. S. R. Woodruff and Mr. C. L. Kilbourn. Kindly assistance has also been rendered me in connection with the Alumni Department by Dr. Robert A. McDonnell and Dr. Oliver T. Osborne. The illustrations are mostly from the hand of Mr. G. Totten McMaster, while some were very kindly executed by Mr. J. H. Koehler. To both these gentlemen great credit is due for the attractiveness of this book. The cover design is also the production of Mr. G. Totten McMaster, and I am deeply grateful to him for the faithfulness he has shown and the many ways in which he has so kindly served me in the making of this little volume. The full page illustrations are from photographs by our artist, Mr. William Blackwood. The large number of half-tones and line drawings I trust will be received favorably. In closing I wish to thank the entire class for the many ways in which they as a body have aided me, and I hope that this little book will meet their every expectation and be to them what no other volume can be, a bright record of their college days. To the entire Faculty thanks are due for many ways of valuable service and for the hearty approval with which they have met our every request. It is our earnest desire that the SymptOiW Record stand as an honor to this School and the University, and be a means perhaps of doing its little work in the onward movement of Yale Medical College. L. HAROLD STEWART, Editor. New Haven, Conn. April, Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-seven.

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Preface. With this volume the Symptom Record begins her career at Yale Medical College. A little over a year ago the question of such a publication was discussed among some members of the school, but owing to a lack of interest and the small number of Seniors, the idea was abandoned, and not until this present year was the subject brought to mind again. At a meeting of Ninety-seven held early in the year, the vote was passed and the Symptom Record sprang into existence. An editor was chosen at this time and the work began imme¬ diately. This book is the result of such action, and we humbly and modestly submit these pages to your careful study, and perhaps amusement. We beg of you not to probe too deeply, however, nor to criticise us as you would one of the great novels of the day. Some one has said that it “doesn’t take much to make a book these days;” but if he means it can be done quickly and very easily, I beg to differ with him, and I gladly offer my sympathy to any other weary editor. If, however, the man above referred to means that it requires but few facts to construct a book, I heartily appreciate his statement and join with the poet, Byron, when he sings: “ ’Tis pleasant, sure, to see one’s name in print; A book ’s a book, although there ’s nothing in’t.” Such facts as appear in these pages were obtained from answers to a list of questions submitted to the class early in the year. They have been placed in a grinding machine, and with a little of what college men call “wind,” have been arranged under their various departments, and perhaps may serve for amusement. I am indebted to our beloved Dean, Prof. Herbert E. Smith, for the article on the “Yale Medical School,” for valuable data, and other innumerable ways in which he has so willingly aided me; to Dr. W. H. Carmalt for valuable assistance; to Dr. Benjamin Austin Cheney for the article on the “New Haven Dispensary,” and to Mr. John A, Starkweather for the paper on the “New Haven Hospital.”

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i October 24 November 30 November 16 December 7 January 31 March 1 April 15 April 22 April 9 J UNE 27 June 29 June 29 June 30 June 30 J UNE 1 July 4 October 6 October 6 October 7 October 22 December Calendar EIUHTU-FOURTM ANNUAL 5E$$ION 1S?6 Thursday Wednesday Monday Wednesday First Term (11 weeks) begins Thanksgiving Recess begins 12 m. Thanksgiving Recess ends 9 a. m. First Term ends 12 m. Winter Vacation of Three Weeks Thursday Wednesday Thursday Thursday Thursday Wednesday Sunday Tuesday Tuesday Wednesday Wednesday Thursday iW Second Term (12 weeks) begins 12 m. Second Term ends 12 m. Third Term (12 weeks) begins Spring Recess (1 week) begins 12 m. Spring Recess ends 1 2 m. Annual Examinations begin Baccalaureate Sermon Annual Address in Medicine 12 m. Meeting of Yale Medical Alumni Association Commencement Third Term ends Examinations for Admission begin FJViMT VI-FIFTH ANNUAL 5E53ION 11 97 Monday Wednesday Wednesday T HURSDAY Wednesday Autumn Examinations begin Autumn Examinations end Examinations for Admission First Term (11 weeks) begins First Term ends