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Vol. IX. No. 1.

Devoted to the Interests of the University of Maryland.

BALTIMOEE, MD., JANUAEY, 1913.

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New members of the General Alumni Associa- tion; Lawrence W. Goldheim, LL. B., '12, Bal- timore; Nathaniel T. Meginnis, LL. B., '12, Bal- timore; Amelia A. Sonnenburg, '13, Baltimore; Daniel A. Warren, Phar. D., '12, Snow Hill,

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The following is the committee that had the responsible duty of selecting a Provost under the new order of things and which nominated Dr. Fell for the position: Mr. Philemon H. Tuck, Department of Arts and Sciences,' chair- man ; Dr. Thomas A. Ashby, Department of Medicine; i\lr. Joseph C. France, Department of Law ; Dr. Timoth}' O. Heatwole, Department of Dentistry: Dr. David M. R. Culbreth, De- partment of Pharmacy.

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As was confidently expected, the report of the committee of inspection was favorable and Dr. Coale was notified on the 11th instant that the School of Medicine had been restored to the A class. Much of the criticism of the committee of 1911 that turned us down was imjust, but un- doubtedly their judgment had a wholesome effect in stirring us up and many things have been done as a consequenc in the way of betterment, some cf which might otherwise have been left undone. These changes have been noted in our columns from time to time in the last twelve months. So the scare has done us good and doubtless we will take care to avoid any such dano;ers in the future.

A meeting of the .llitmni Council was held at the office of Judge Walter I. Dawkins, Fidelity I'.uilding, Jan. 28th. Judge Dawkins was elect President for 1913 and, Mr. John H was re-elected Secretary. The Sec

rected to write to the Board of Regents and ex- press the gratification of the Council at the elec- tion of a paid Provost of the University. On motion of Mr. J. W. Bowers a committee of five, representing the various departments of the University, was appointed to consider and report ways and means of securing a Gymnasium. Committee : Mr. Bowers, Dr. Wirt A. Duvall, Dr. Herbert L. Gorgas, Dr. C. O. Miller, Dr. Jos. E. Gichner. After further discussion the Council adjourned.

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The Regents of the Universit\ met in annual session on January 7, Judge Stockbridge, Acting Provost, in the chair. The report of the Commit- mittee appointed last September to nominate a Provost was presented. Dr. Fell being nomi- nated. Dr. Fell was then unanimously elected Provost for the ensuing year. He will be a salaried officer and have an office for the present in the room formerly used as a library opposite Dean Coale's office. He will continue as Presi- dent of St. John's, spending about half his time in Baltimore. The Board of V^isitors and Gov- ernors of St. John's has approved of the election. Dr. Randolph Winslow was re-elected Treasurer cf the Board and Dr Daniel Base was made Sec- retary. Dr Fell conferred with the Deans, and a committee from the Board of Visitors and Gov- e"ncrs of St. John's, on January 11, and entered upon his duties at the University on Januar}- 13. o '-

In the election of Dr. Fell as Provost to suc- ceed the late Mr. Bernard Carter, the Regents have acted wisely. It is hard to see how they could have dene diffcently, if the plan of a paid JPrm'orJ^yas to be consummated. In the condi- sity's finances, cost had to be An outsider was not to be

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thought of in view of the large salary to be paid for a suitable person. We were compelled there- fore to look within our own circles and of those who were possibly available, who was to compare with Dr. Fell? He was already President of our Academic Department and had shown decided executive ability during the 26 years of his in- cumbency of that position. He has had large experience and is otherwise peculiarl}' cjuali- fied for the ofRce. From the beginning he has been one of the strongest advocates of the affilia- tion of the University and St. John's and has done much to strengthen that bond. Lastly, Dr. Fell was already salaried at St. John's and did not require therefore to be paid a full salary here. o

CORRESPONDENCE.

Bangor, Maine, Jan. 9, 1913. Eugene F. Cordell, M.D.,

Baltimore, Md. ; Dear Doctor: —

I herewith enclose check for $3.00 subscrip- tion to Old Maryland. Am sorry I was com- pelled to make you wait so long, but have finally found a good location in the city of Bangor, where I am in hopes of building up a good practice. Have been doing well here right from the beginning and prospects for the future look good.

Wishing yo'u and Old Maryland success for the New Year, I am.

Fraternally yours,

L. M. PASTOR.

Raspeburg, Md., Jan. 8, 1913. Dear Doctor Cordell :

I have written to Dr. Fell expressing- my great pleasure at his selection as Provost of the University and I feel that I should also write to you a sort of congratulatory letter, because this great step in advance is, as I see it, exactly along the lines which you have so long advocated and with such zeal and

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energy, especially in the past ten years. I look upon this selection as, in a great meas- ure, a personal victory for you and it is my earnest hope that you may yet live to see your labor of love and of years grow more and more towards the consummation which you have so "devoutly wished." Sincerely yours,

A. F. WILKINSON.

St. John's College,

Annapolis, Md.

President's Room. 8 January, 1913. My dear Dr. Cordell :

I beg to thank you for your very kind letter, expressing your pleasure in my appointment as Provost of the University and your prom- ise of support in my administration. Nothing can lighten the labors of the position more than the hearty co-operation of those con- nected with it, and I shall be grateful at all times for such help as you can give me. With kindest regards, I am, Very sincerely yours,

THOMAS FELL, President of St. John's College.

Ladiesburg, Md., Jan. 8th, 1913. Dr. Eugene F. Cordell; Dear Doctor :

I inclose money order for $1.00 in payment of the inclosed bill, received yesterday. I am always glad to receive Old Maryland. The endowment fund has not yet met "the tide, which, taken at its flood, leads on to fortune." Some philosophical gentleman has remarked : "Everything comes to the man who waits." So may it be with the fund. I hope so. Yours truly,

JOHN J. LIGGET.

Alexandria, Dec. 22, 1912. My Professor Eugene Cordell ;

Sir: — I beg to acknowledge a receipt of your letter of the 8th of November. I was glad to know that our University is considered among the best in the country. None of us need feel ashamed of it. I am receiving the Old Maryland regularly.

I have sent an article to the Hospital Bulle- tin on the Treatment of Enteritis of Children b^ Sea Water. I hope it may interest my

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Professor Mitchell and my colleagues of the University. J ido:se with best wishes and kindest regards. Yours faithfully,

N. KENAWAY, M. D., 1905.

N. B. — Please send me the Old M.-\ryl.\nd on tlie following address : 1 1 Boulevard Ramleh, Alexandria.

231 Broad Street, Providence, R. I.,

Jan. 11, 1913. My dear Doctor:

I know the enclosed will interest you, both personally and as Dean of the Dental Depart- ment of the old University. It will show that some of the "Boys" are still making good, even in New England.

We have not forgotten the good, sound advice given us by our friends, the faculty, and espe- cially by the younger element, as Drs. Grieves, Davis and yourself. With the exception of a very few., the men in this section from the U. M. are "making good" — and some are among the leaders of the profession. Personally, I have, in a financial way, been able to save a penny each year. I think that is more than a majority of young men can say.

Perhaps you would be interested to know that in the Rhode Island Dental Society one has to start on the executive committee and is moved up each year, provided he is a hustler and meets the approval of the Society. In my case I have had no opposition the past two years. We had a splendid meeting on Thursday — the best one yet — and I hope that the meetings during this year will be an improvement over the last one.

I hope you are enjoying your "Deanship," and that the institution will greatly prosper. Will you kindly remember me to Drs, Davis, Valen- tine and others who may be connected with the University known to me.

With kindest regards, and wishing you all that is good,

Most cordially, WALTER R. McINTIRE.

[In explanation of the above, we would say that Dr. Mclntire has just been elected Presi- dent of the Rhode Island Dental Society. He gra'duated in the class of 1905.]

HISTORICAL NOTES.

The late Dr. John Morris, of Baltimore, claimed to be the only living Maryland physician who he'd a license of the Medical and Chirurgicai Facultv by examination. I saw this in 1898. ' It was dated 1845 and was signed by "Joel Hop- kins, Praeses," and John L. Yeates, George S. Gibson, Alexander F. Dulin, John H. Briscoe, Thomas H. Wright and John R. W. Dunbar, all M. D.'s.

Dr. Morris volunteered to go to Norfolk in the yellow fever epidemic of 1855 and had a gold medal given him by the citizens' there for his services. Dr. Robert Thompson, a graduate of the University of Maryland, accompanied him. Tliey arrived on Friday and by the following Tuesday Thompson ' was dead and buried. T. was much depressed and drank a great deal, while Morris refrained. The latter also had the disease. Thompson had been rejected for the Navy on account of a deformity of his nose — a flat nose. Fifteen corpses were piled in the yard of the hotel when they arrived and there were no coffins for them. It was necessary to dig a trench and bury them in that. Out of a popula- tion of 12,000-15,000, 2503 died of fever. '^ '

Ashton Alexander (said Dr. Morris, 1899) was of magnificent physicpie, a grand old man in everything — in manner, charities, kindness, gen- tleness and all virtues. A^ery courteous. Of the old school. Wore black clothes, knee buckles, shoe buckles and stockings. Gold-headed cane. Fond of dining and' of wine. Of a florid com- plexion, but no red nose.

The editor of Niles Register has an article in that journal, Oct. 31, 1818, in which he says that the "Baltiinore Physical Association" has just been organized. It was designed to pro- mote natural science in Baltimore. Horace H. Hayden was secretary

Dr. John B. Blake, class of 1824, died in Washington City, Oct. 26, 1881, aged 79. A graduate of Georgetown College. Took great interest in the building of the Washington Mon- ument : in fact, might almost be called the father

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of it, since much of the credit of its resumption was due to him. A great entertainer and story- teller. Was always relieving distress and speak- ing a kindly word for struggling young men. Though often deceived, never lost faith in hu- manity. For nearly 70 years a citizen of Wash- ington. Intimate with Webster, Clay, Benton and other leaders and often royally entertained them. Kind, sociable, sprightly. Was president of the "Oldest Inhabitants' Association." Toner, M. S.

Of Dr. John Buckler, Class of 1817, born 1795, died 1866, who aspired at one time to be the chief surgeon of Baltimore and who was the great family physician here for many years, his brother, Thomas H. Buckler, said: "He never dined out ; never went inside of a church ; never went to a theatre or any other place of public amusement ; never indulged in games or pleas- ures of any kind ; nor did he ever seek relaxation by leaving the city at any time for health, pleas- ure or recreation." Trans. A. M. A., Vol. 18, p. 335.

In 1883 a student named Jacob M. Davis, who had been rejected by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Balto. on final examination, sued the college, claiming that the rejection was because of the character of his parents. The suit was decided against him by Judge Phelps, who said : "It was beyond the power of the court to issue a mandamus to compel an institu- tion of learning to confer a degree upon any per- son considered incompetent by the institution in question."

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ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE (DEPARTMENT OF ARTS AND SCIENCES).

At a meeting of the Athletic Association held before the holidays, H. B. Matthews and Philip Moisan were elected manager and as- sistant-manager, respectively, of the football team for the coming season. As chairman of the executive committee, Vice-president Cecil awarded monograms and stars to Mellon, Welch, Wilson, Clark, Clayton, Claudf, Broad- water, McN'utt, Dryden, Gladden, Woodward, Selby, and Thompson ; Lewis and Fell received monograms.

The second formal dance in the Cotillion Club series was held on Friday, January 10th,

in the new gymnasium. Professor John B. Rippere, Secretary to the Facurty, and Mrs. Rippere received. The floor was not crowded, the music w^ell selected, and the floor in per- fect condition.

At the quarterly meeting of the Brard of Visitors and Governors on Wednesday, Jan. 8th, formal announcement was made of the appointment of Dr. Fell as Provost of the University. A committee, consisting of Messrs. Munfoe, Tuck, and Chew, designated with power to act in the matter, has since rati- fied the selection of President Fell. The board also received and accepted the resignation of Mr. M. W. King as gymnasium instructor. Cadets Woodward and Gailey, both capable men, have been appointed in his stead. Rep- resentatives of the Phi Sigma Kappa appealed for the reinstatement of Greek letter fraterni- ties, but the matter was referred to committee and will be determined at the next meeting.

The Basket-ball season opened with a de- cided victory over Gallaudet College by a score of 41-9. Captain Clayton, Mellon, Wil- son, and Welch are veterans of the last three years and Thompson has played in several Varsity games for the last two years. ' ■

Cadet Holman has been chosen manager of the Mandolin and Glee Club. Cadet AV. R. Woodward has been re-elected captain of the track team.

For the Farewell Ball of 1913 the Junior class recently elected the following committee : Reader, chairman. Noble, Christian, Cecil, Smith, D. E., and H. B. Matthews. '

The Rat-Tat for this year will be dedicated to Phil. H. Tuck, an old St. John's man, mem- ber of the board of Visitors and Governors of the college and of the Board of Regents of the University. • - -

Lieut. Roy M. Jones, TO,' of Annapolis, who recently received his commission as an officer of the U. S. Army, has received orders assign- ing him to duty with the 22d Inf., stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas. „ -.^

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DEPARTMENT OF LAW.

THE BAR EXAMINATIONS.

Few, if any, there are among us, who ap- proach this dreaded ordeal with light hearts. Still smaller is the number who leave the dreaded portals of Custom House, "lightly tripping," and more, oh ! much more diminu- tive still, is the number who get the required average. As usual there are many sad stories that could be told of what might have been, but this is a tale of joy and not of woe, for honor and not for condolences, and to those who passed we reach forth the hand of con- gratulation.

Of those who have worked among us three years, passing their, U. of M. requirements and receiving their diplomas, we are very proud. They have upheld the honor of their school. Their success is our boast; but there are others to whom we must advance and lay on the congratulatory "stuff" with even greater ve- hemence and heartiness, if such be possible. A'Ve refer especially to Messrs. Edgar Curran, W. Melbourne Hart, Gerard Morgan and Rob- ert Pfeil from men of our Senior Class who, taking time by the forelock, lifted themselves mto the ranks of the Barristers as effectually as with the aid of our "sheepskins" the rest of us are going to try to force an entrance this spring. To them we dofif our caps, to them we bend the knee ; of them, cherished sons of our 1913 class, we are most justly proud.

THESIS.

"The lines of demarcation between legis- tive, executive and j'udicial functions, with special reference to the acts of an administra- tive .board or commission."

The above is the topic assigned to the Se- nior Class for its annual "Thesis." The sub- ject is one of very present moment, and the wisdom of its choice is clearly apparent. The whole trend of national policies seems to have a jCenter around the determination of this is- sue:-^ Will our country be able to retain its

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three-fold checking system of government or will it be forced, by factions or otherwise, to join two or perhaps the three portions, in or- der to secure the rapid action now so much desired? What are the lines which separate the three departments of our government, then, should be a most interesting topic for inquiry and study. In the development of this subject there is much to be read, much to be learned.

Mr. Samuel Want has been kind enough to give the Senior Class talks on the scope of this s'ubject, which talks have proven very helpful and instructive. -

EXAMINATIONS.

The examination in the Law Department will begin with the Senior Qass on Jan. 25th and finish with the Junior Class on Feb. 1st. At present we are all at a point where we begin to realize how little we know. The library has suddenly taken on a busy atmos- phere. Quiet reigns, a most remarkable thing, and everyone appears to be busy. Here and there we see a junior so intent with feverish zeal that he seems to be endeavoring to mem- orize the "code ;" the blase intermediate at- tempting to concoct some sort of a scheme to remember all of the "Writs" and saddest of all the poor old serious senior trying to figure out "The line of demarcation between Conflict of Laws and Federal Procedure with special reference to Admiralty, International Law and Evidence." We admire and encour- age you all. May the suns of February shine bright with your success ! We wish you all 100.

The following passed the State Bar Exami- nation held in November, in addition to those mentioned in our Dec. issue: Robert H. Pfeil, Gerard Morgan, Edgar C. Curran, and W. Mel-" bourne Hart. H. L. G. 0

DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACY.

Mr. Davis, senior, who was operated on for appendicitis just beford the holidays, has fully recovered and is back at school again.

Dr. Culbreth is quizzing on Materia Medica this year. He assigns three drugs to the class each week, and different members are asked to demonstrate them before the class the fol-

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lowing week. These little recitations are en- joyed very much by the audience and all are gxeatly benefited.

.The following went home for the holidays : Messrs. Gardner, Glover, Cline, Growl, Wat- kins,. Tucker, Hudgins, Durding, L. White, p.... White, C. E. Wilson, Don, Tyson, Kilgoe and Halliday.

Miss Dull spent a pleasant vacation with her parents in Pennsylvania.

The new chairs in the lecture room are much appreciated by the students, being more comfortable with the high backs and conven- ient slabs for note books.

The midyear examinations begin on the 13th and the students of both classes are busy mak- ing preparations.

The seniors are sitting for their pictures for the Terra Mariae, and the juniors have had theirs taken in a group.

Mr. Brooks, junior, was married last week at Cumberland, Md., the home of his bride.

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DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE.

- A son was born to Dr. and Mrs. John A. Tompkins, Jr., on New Year's Day. Dr. T. is instructor in Minor Surgery and Bandaging in the University.

The late Dr. Oliver P. Penning left his entire estate to his mother and sisters. The former is constituted executrix and it is rec- ommended that all his effects be turned into

cash.

Dr. Archibald C. Harrison, President-elect of the Medical and Chirlirgical Faculty of Md., entered upon his official duties on Jan. 1.

Professor Hemmeter, who has been indis- posed for some weeks, is said to be convalesc- ing. He is taking the rest cure at his home on University Parkway.

Dr. John W'iUiam'Ebert' ('12) and his wife left Balto. New Year's Eve for Winchester, Va., where they will live. Mrs. E. was for- merly Miss Louise Bowly and is a daughter of Mrs. George I. Richardson, of Lutherville, Md.

Mr. Godfrey Miller, of Winchester, Va., who was a medical student here 18 years ago, has

written to Dean Coale, to know whether he can return and finish his studies. It is said his standing here was very good.

Dr. J. E. Tlnomas, '11, of Tirzah, S., C. brought a patient to University Hospital rer cently.

Dr. E. O. Taylor, '11, of Greelyville, S. C., is to be married in the early spring.

The following passed the state medical exr aminations held in Baltimore last December: Class of 1911 — Raymond G. Hussey, Isadore I. Hirschman ; Class of 1912 — Bernard Ml. Berngarrt, James A. Duggan, William E. Gal- lion, Jr., Moses R. Kahn, Simon G. Lenzner, John C. Norton, John A. Skladowsky.

Dr. James A. Nydegger, '92, U. S. Pub. Hlth. Service, began a course of lectures in the University on tropical diseases, on Jan. 14. He will lecture weekly to the seniors and others interested.

The Seniors are having their pictures taken for the Year Book.

The Housemen gave a dance in honor of thp

nurses on Jan. 17 at the Lyceum parlors.

There are two natives of the Philippine Islands attending this department at this time. They are Mr. Juan L. Payaual, freshman, and Mr. Faustino Sarinas, junior. Tliey are from Manila and are both graduates of the Spanish University at Manila.

THE CERTIFICATION OF PHARMACISTS^

Dear Doctor; —

Certain "^ew York physician,s and pharmacists have appointed a joint committee which is to thoroughlj' in- vestigate New York piiarmacies and certify to the worth of those that meet reasonable modern requirements in stock, in equipment and in practice.

We believe our greatly enlarged facilities and up-to- date equipment would amply entitle us to such certifica- tion. The character of work we have been doing for more thAntiDenty years B-Ai, yse. hope, thoroughly and firmly established us in 5'our esteem and favorably testifies as to our abilities and methods.

THE LINDEN BRANCH Linden and North Aves.

This unique establishment is fully equipped for, pre- scriptions and stocked with a large assortment of sick room supplies, invalid's appliances and household drugs and chemicals; surgical instruments and physician's sup- plies are more fully stocked at Chai-les and Franklin Streets. Wears working with you doctor, not against you. Faithfully, HYNSON, WESTCOTT & COMPAKY, Pharmacists to Physicians and their Patients.

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Among the lecturers in the course on tropical medicine are Surgeon-Genl. Rupert Blue, Drs. Henry R. Carter, J. A. Nydegger and C. W. Stiles, all of the U. S. Pub. Health Service. Among the subjects embraced in the course are yellow fever, pellagra, hookworm and beri-beri.

The Senior Class has elected the following: Honor Com.: T. R. Pratt, M C. Smith, V. E. Edwards, F. R. Devine, W. T. Martin ; Serg.- at-Arms. E. E. Travers ; Poet, F. L.McDaniel.

J. T. Beavers and F. D. Murphy, Seniors, were recently operated on at University Hospi- tal, the former for appendicitis, the latter for defective nasal septum. Both are convalescent. Mr. G. W. Desbrow was also operated on with a similar favorable result.

Mr. Lockridge, of the Sophomore Medical Class, is confined to his home in \A'est Virginia with a broken leg. The accident happened dur- ing the Christmas holidays. From tl;e latest re- ports he is progressing favorably and will soon be again with his classmates, among whom he is quite popular.

Examinations have been coming the Sopho- mores' way lately. On Saturday last Assoc. Prof. Jos. T. Smith entertained them by an examination m Legal Medicine, which course they have now finished. On Wednesday and Thursday even- ings. Prof. Shipley held his mid-year examina- tions in Materia Medica. The Bacteriology ex- amination was held Dec. 20.

The Juniors have been keeping Prof. Shipley pretty busy during the past few months. In early November he operated upon Mr. Ostro for appendicitis ; Mr. Ray was next under his care with malaria and Mr. Cook was operated upon for osteo-myelitis of the femur just prior to the Christmas recess. All are now up and about, thanks to the students' "friend-.''

Mr. McFadden, of the Junior Class, has now fully recovered from his attack of typhoid fever, which confined him to the University Hospital from the latter part of October until December.

Prof. Ashby's assistants, Drs. White, Brent, Willse and R. Mitchell, have started the Gyneco- logical cjuizzes, which are to be held weekly from now on.

In order that the students of the Junior Class may obtain a good working knowledge of the

physical signs of Tuberculosis, Drs. McCarthy and Robinson are taking their respective sections in Physical Diagnosis to the Bay View Hospital. There is plenty of material at the L'niversity Hospital along this line, but the more advanced cases, as found at Bay View, are more easily un- derstood by the embryo diagnosticians.

A very interesting post-mortem was conducted under the supervision of Prof. Neale last Tues- day. The case was one of Eclampsia and, as Prof. Neale has been lecturing- to the Juniors • en this subject for the past few weeks, the post- mortem was well appreciated. J. W. K.

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DEPARTMENT OF DENTISTRY,

The following- graduates of this department have recently visited the University : Dr. George K. Patterson, '12, N. C. ; Dr. Thomas J. Claggett, '11, Md.; Dr. E. T. Evans, '00, 111.; Dr. AV. C. Shirley, '04, Va. ; Dr. L. A. Bragg, '01, Va.; Dr. Ferd. Groshans, '85, Md. ; Dr. George E. Purnell, '84, Mex. ; Dr. Harold E. Bonney, '12, Va.

The Junior Class has elected the following officers for the ensuing year : President, J. S. Mitchell; Vice-Pres., B. J. Hammett; Rec. Sec, M. M. Groves; Cor. Sec, Eva Carter; Treas., B. S. Wells; Serg.-at-Arms, W. F. O'Neil ; Asst., A. E. Worsham ; Historian, W. E. Hyde; Editor, J. Ben. Robinson. The class has had its picture taken for the Terra Mariae.

Dr. D. Y. Flook, '12, of Myersville, Md., has been appointed Assistant Demonstrator of the Prosthetic department.

Dr. A. H. HulTman, '94, has just entered the Johns Hopkins Hospital a second time for operation for appendicitis. He was operated on there some months ago, but a second oper- ation was found to be necessary.

Dr. H. E. Bonney, '12, passed the District of Columbia State Board examination recent- ly and has received his license to practice.

W. F. O'Neil, the successful baseball player of 1911, is on hand again and will be an im- portant factor in the Varsity Baseball Team this year.

Daniel Brattan, '11, has been elected First Lieutenant of Co. E, First Maryland National Guard, Dr. Brattan practices at Elkton, Md.

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EUGENE F. CORDELL, A. M., M. D., Editor. Associate Editors: Amelia A. Sonnenburg, Department of Pharmacy; J, Wesley Katzenberger, A. B., Department of Medicine; H. L. Grymes, Department of Law; Calvert Magruder, Department of Arts and Sciences (St. John's College); Wm. Ernest Mcintosh, Department of Dentistry.

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BALTIMORE, JANUARY, 191,3.

With the induction of a paid Provost this University enters upon a new era. Nothing has happened in the whole 105 years of its existence that can compare in importance with this step. Never before has our organization been com- plete ; never have the several departments of the LIniversity been united under an authoritative and efficient head. Hitherto there has only been the semblance of organization, impotent to accomplish results, because there was no one to direct, no one to lead the way.

The very fact of having an actual head will create a new atmosphere here, will increase our self-respect and stir up new hopes, new aspira- tions, new resolutions, new efforts. For we real- ize that the nerveless methods of the past, the mismanagement and the lack of management have been done away with and that the University k at last oil its feet.

There is therefore cause for rejoicing among all who claim this LTniversity as their alma mater.

and for renewing our loyalty, and devotion, and co-operation in every possible way in promoting the success of the efforts of our new Provost. We confidently trust that in his hands affairs will be managed with wisdom, tact and judgment, and let us not forget that in "union there is stiength." o —

As we write this, negotiations are in progress looking to a union between the Department of Medicine of the LIniversity and the Baltimore Medical College. The facultj' of the latter ap- pear to be willing, indeed, urgent for it. Tlie chief difficulty in the way, as we predicted some time ago, is the status of the Maryland General Hospital, now the property of the Methodists. If that can be arranged to the satisfaction of the Faculty of Physic of the LViiversity, the schools will probably unite.

It will practically be an absorption of the col- lege, which will lose its name and identity. As far as we can learn, it has nothing to turn over. The rearrangement of the conjoined faculty will require much tact and can hardly be expected to give entire satisfaction to, everybody.

The College of Phj'sicians and Surgeons, which has gotten back into the A class, seems to be determined to pursue an independent course, but everywhere the sentiment is growing, that en- dowment and affiliation are necessities and the future of such an institution dees not offer much encouragement. In Richmond and Memphis the schools have amalgamated and the near future will witness many more changes and a still fur- ther reduction in the number. We are by no means enthusiastic, however, over the above union and confess that we cannot appreciate its advan- tages for us.

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In the midst of our other needs the needs of the Training School for Nurses are by no means to be forgotten. Under the energetic commit- tee of the Faculty of Physic, assisted by the various superintendents, this institution has been brought to a high degree of efficiency. There are now 87 students in attendance and the in- stitution is taxed to its utmost to meet the wants of this large number of young women. The prospects are that it will increase and in the near future reach or even pass the hundred-mark.

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demand must be provided for and the superin- tendent, ]\Irs. Ethel P. Clarke, has started a movement for a fund for a new "Home" for the nurses, in the vicinity of the Hospital. This is a great undertaking, but by determination, persistence and enthusiasm, is by no means be- yond accomplishment. The community now rec- ognizes the invaluable services rendered by trained nurses, and many would respond by greater or less contributions to an appeal for help such as is contemplated. The nurse has peculiar- ly good opportunities to direct the benefactions of the wealthy at a time when they are grateful for recovery or about to take their departure into another world. Let the "New Nurses' Home Fund" be pushed vigorously and every friend of the University be called on to give. The nurses ought to get many a dollar out of them. 0

Dr. \Mnslow concludes the account of his trip to Panama, in the last Hasp. Bull., by describing a brief visit to Costa Rica. Port Limon, the only seaport on the Atlantic side of that Republic, is almost due west of Colon, from which it is reached in an 18-hour sail. It has no harbor, but only an open roadstead dangerous in bad weather. - On entering port, the national flag was run tip and the band played the national hymn, while the customs and quarantine officers made their examination. The United Fruit Com- panv is the most important factor in the life of this town, with its 5,000 inhabitants, its park and frame houses, and maintains lines with New York and New Orleans.

Costa Rica is a mountainous country with 390,000 population, mostly pure Spanish. A narrow-gauge runs from Limon across to the Pacific Coast. The coffee industry is one of the chief sources of revenue. Earthquakes are fre- quent and about two }^ears ago Cartago, a town of 15,000 inhabitants, was destroyed by one, to- gether with Andrew Carnegie's palace for the Central American Court. San Jose, the capital, situated at an elevation of 5,000 ft., was reached after a ride of 105 miles. The situation is beau-

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On the return voyage a stop of two hours was made at Santiago, which allowed a meeting with Drs. Brooks and Miranda and the partaking of their hospitality in an auto ride through the city. (Dr. Winslow tells us that the statement that no portion of the French work is included in the Panama Canal, made in our Dec. issue, applies only to about 7 miles of the Atlantic end, ter- minating at Gatun Dam.)

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The annual meeting of the Trustees of the Endozi'inent Fund was held at the office of the President, Judge Henry Stockbridge, on January 13. There were present, Judge Stockbridge, Dr. Cordell, Dr. Ashby, Dr. Adier, Dr. Hopkinson and Mr. Charles Markell. The Treasurer was not ready to make his report and it was post- poned to a special meeting.

The following nominations to medical scholar- ships, made by the Faculty of Physic, were con- firmed : Dr. Samuel Leon Frank scholarship, Morris Benjamin Levin, Md., Junior Class ; Hitchcock Scholarships, William S. Walsh, R. L, Junior Class, and John C. Woodland, Md., Sophomore Class ; Randolph Winslow Scholar- ship, Charles C. Ayres, Md., Junior Class.

The President announced that he had re- ceived the following communication :

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ognizes the imperative need of a more adequate provision for a, home for nurses connected with the Training School. As a step to this end they propose to inaugurate the estabhshment of a Fund which shah ultimately be available for the purchase of a site and erection of a building for such home, and they desire to place the same and all accumulations thereof in your hands uj be invested, cared for and expended in accord- ance with the following terms :

1. Any and all sums which shall be contrib- uted or donated, or given by way of legacy for the purpose above specified, shall be received, held and invested by your Board in the same manner and with the same degree of responsi- bility, and none other, as is the case with other funds now in your hands and being administered as endowments for the various departments or purposes of the University or the scholarships therein.

2. That no part of the said monies shall be used or expended save for the purchase of a site, erection, remodeling and repairing of a Home for Nurses connected wdth the Traiiiing School for Nurses of the University of Mary- land ; and no such expenditure of the Fund shall be made without the joint concurrence of your Finance Committee, the Superintendent of Nurses of the Hospital of the University of Maryland and the President of the Ntirses' Alumnae As- sociation connected with the Hospital.

3. That no site shall be purchased, building erected or repaired for such Home upon which there is or shall be any other or greater mortgage than may become necessary for the accjuiring of such site, the erection, reconstruction or repair of a building for such Nurses' Home.

Yours truly,

Ethel P. Cl.'\rke, Siipt. of Nurses."

The following action was taken with regard to this communication : That the request of the Association of Nurses that this Board act as custodian of the Fund to be inaugurated for the acquisition of a Honie for Nurses connected with the Training School be granted.

The election of officers was then held when all the previous incumbents were re-elected, viz : President, Judge Henry Stockbridge; Secretary-

Treasurer, Mr. Charles Markell ; Executive Com- mittee, the President, Secretary-Treasurer, Mr. John B. Thomas and Dr. B. Merrill Hopkinscn..

There being no further business the Board adjourned to the call of the President. ■ o ( -

Dr. Fell, with his ripe experience as an ed- ucator and administrator, is logically the man to head the greater university. His stand- ing in this regard has been recognized by Hampden-Sidney College, Va., and the Uni- versity of Pittsburgh, with the degree of doc- tor of laws, and by St. John's with the de- gree of doctor of civil law.

Dr. Fell was born in Liverpool, England, on July 15, 1851, the son of a staff surgeon of the English Army, who was killed in the Crimean War. He studied at the Royal In- stitution School of Liverpool and later at King's College, London. Afterwards he en- tered the University of London and later de- voted two years to study at the Univer- sity of Munich. He came to America and in 1884 was chosen professor of ancient languages at New Windsor College, Md. He was elect- ed president of St. John's in 1886 and has been very successful in the management of its af- fairs. He is a member of the American Philo- logical Association, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the National Educational Association, the Southern Edu- cational Association, the University Club of Baltimore, the Phi Sigma Kappa Fraternity and the Cliosophic Society of Princeton Uni- versity. He is also senior member of the vestry of St. Anne's P. E. Church of Annapo- lis and has represented this body as a dele- gate on several occasions at Diocesan conven- tions. Last year he served as president of the Association of Universities and Colleges of the Middle States and Maryland, which held its annual meeting at Columbia University, New York.

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The sixteenth biennial convention of the Phi Sigrna Kappa Fraternity was held in Balto. from Dec. 14 to the 16th, the delegates numbering" two hundred, representing twenty-six colleges, coming from as far north as Canada, as far west as California and as far south as Virginia, which is the most southern of the chapters. The dele- gates were royally entertained by their Balti- more brothers, the only complaint being that sleep was omitted from the program.

On Thursday, the 14th, the delegates arrived and on the evening of the same day a smoker was held in their honor at the Emerson Hotel. On Friday, from 5-7 P. M., tea was served at the local Fraternity House on Mt. Royal Ave., irt honor of the delegates and their friends, five hundred attending. At eight P. M., a business meeting was held at the Emerson, at which Mr. William A. Mclntyre, of Ardmore, Pa., was nawed President, to succeed George A. Vogel, of- New York.

On Saturday morning a business meeting was held at the same hotel. In the afternoon the delegates attended the St. John's-Johns Hop- kins football game.

The convention was brought to a close, Sat- urday evening, a banquet being served on the seventeenth- floor of the Emerson, but the people on. the fourteenth floor had to be assured just the same that the Turks and Bulgars were still in. Europe and that the strange warcries were only twenty-six varieties of college yells. The principal address of the evening was delivered by Prof. Arthur M. Shipley, who spoke most in- terestingly on "The Ideal Relation Between the Student and the Fraternity." Toastmaster George J. Vogel spoke briefly of the recent prog- ress made by the various chapters. Messrs. Al- fi-ed' Houston, of St. John's College, and Jas. P. Barrett, of New York, a founder of the fra- ternity, spoke fetchingly in response to "Toasts."

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The results of the election of officers under president, held at the Saturday morning session, are as follows: Vice-Pres., Jas. L. McDonald, New York ; secretary, Donald H. McLean, Eliz- abeth, N. J. ; treasurer, Gilbert J. Morgan, of Baltimore ; auditor, Walter H. Conley, of N. Y. ; conductor, Jas. A. Boehm, Lancaster, Pa. The only Southerner to be elected a national officer was Gilbert J. Morgan, an alumnus of Eta chap- ter, of the U. of M., who received the office of treasurer, and who is also the representative of the Southern chapters. The Supreme Court of- ficers are Jas. E. Barrett, N. Y. ; Geo. J. Vogel; Albert A. Munsell, Conn. ; Samuel C. Thompson, Dr. Jas. K. Hoyt, Conn. ; and Frederich G. Farquhar, Mass.

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Marriage: Win. A. Ellingzvood, M. D., '08, of Winterport, Maine, to Miss Ruth Anne Kel- 1am, at Onancock, Va. — Dai'id B. Kirsner, LL.B., '11, to Miss Saiontz, at the home of the bride, 132 North Broadway, Balto., Dec. 31, 1912.— IVni. Graham Bowdoin, Jr., LL.B., to Miss Eli- nor McLane, at Balto., Jan. 18. — W. B. Foist, D. D. S., '91, of Baltimore, to Miss Annie Stew- art, by Rev. Dr. T. G. Koontz, Dec. 19. 637 W. Franklin St. — Moses J. Fine, '10, of Burling- ton, Vermont, to Miss Lillian G. Eiddelman, at Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 31. The honeymoon was spent at Old Point Comfort, Norfolk, Washing- ton, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Lakewood, N. J. They will reside at Newark, N. J. o

Deaths: Robert J. Frice, '66, for nearly SO years a ph3'sician at Vienna, Dorchester Co., Md., died there Jan. 15, suddenly of a stroke of apoplexy, aged 7?>. He was at one time mem- ber of the School Board and for many years almshouse physician. — Benjamin T. Winchester, M. D., at Windsor Hills, near Baltimore, after 10 weeks' illness, of tuberculosis, aged 61. He was a native of Queen Anne countv and practiced there until 1888, when he removed to Balto. and established the Winchester Manufacturing Com- pany, makers of medical supplies, largely his own invention.' — Lemuel S. Lazvson, M. D., '67, for 43 years a practitioner of Dallastown, Pa., at his home there, Dec. 5, from uremia, aged 75. — Al- fred B. Giles, M. D., '80, suddenly, Dec. 22, while

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taking a bath at his home in Forest Park, in the siibrirbs of Baltimore. He was 54 years okl and was a son of the late Judge Wm. F. Giles. Death was supposed to be due to heart disease. — Oliver Parker Penning, M. D., '97, at his residence in Baltimore, Dec. 29, aged 43, of leucocythaemia. He had been ill for two years, and had been a patient in Johns Hopkins Hospital the last two or three months of his life. He was resident phys- ician at University Hospital 1898-99 and later Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy and Assist- ant in Surgery. — Richard Channing Massenbwrg, M. D., '84, at his residence in Towson, Baltimore county, Md., Dec. 30, 1912, of diabetes, aged 67. He was both physician and druggist and health officer of the Ninth District of Baltimore county. He served in a Georgia artillery regiment, C. S. A., during the civil war. He was the father of Dr. Geo. Y. Massenburg, '11, who is a resident physician at Santa Tomas Hospital, '94, Ancon, Fanzma.— Thomas C. Baldzvin, M. D., '94, at White Hall, Baltimore county, Md., Jan. 3, aged 44, of Bright's disease. — Henry Bowen Eduiond- son, M. D., '91, at Marion, Va., Jan. 18, leaving a valuable estate. He practiced some years at Bristol, A/'a.-Tenn., until he lost his health.

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Officers: President, J. M. Buch, '13, Med., Cuba; Vice-Pres., R. Reineke, '13, Dent., Cuba; Sec., H M. Perez, '13, Med., Cuba; Treas., L H. Fajardo, '13, Med., Cuba; J'ocal, Dept. of Med.', A. L. Portuondo, '14, Cuba — Dept. of Dent., U. Odio, '14, Costa Rica, C. A. — Dept. of Pharm., A. A. Rodon, '14, Cuba ; Historian, J. J. de Jongh, '13, Dent., Cuba; Serg.-at-Arms, J. Mo- rales, '14, Dent., Tampa, Fla.

Members; A. Arch, '13, Dent., Mexico; Pablo Alegre, '16, Med., Cuba; A. Ealart, '14, Med., Cuba; S. A. Cocco, '14, Dent., Santo Do- mingo; J. R. Echeverria, '14, Med,, Tampa, Fla. ; A. I. Fajardo, '14, Dent., Cuba; A. Feijoo, '15,

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JOHN PETER AHL, SURGEON'S MATE.

The career of this patriot of the Revolu- tion has interested me no little, for he was worthy, conscientious and brave and I have no doubt that he was a good surgeon for the times in which he lived. He was born in King St., Berlin, Germany, in 1748, and came to America early in the Revolution. There is reason to believe, as will appear later, that he was among those Hessian troops who were hired by petty German princes tOi George III to help him in his efforts to reduce to submis- sion his rebellious subjects in the American colonies. The accounts state that he had been "impressed" into the British service and .had left it after reaching this country, and that he first settled in Bucks Co., Penna. We cannot affirm with certainty that he deserted; he may have been captured and paroled. But it would be no discredit to him had he done so, when we consider the circumstances under which he had been compelled to fight against those who had never harmed him or his country- men. He may have been among the 1000 Hessians, who, on that dreadful morning, after a wild Christmas orgy, were surprised in their Cjuarters at Trenton and taken prison- ers by the despised Washington and • his ragged followers. One of the officers captured there was Dr. Heinrich Keerl, surgeon, who came under parole to Baltimore, was pleased with it and settled here as physician, and, like Ahl, died here and both indeed by a singular coincidence in the same year. Ahl may have accompanied Keerl from .Trenton, to Balti- more.

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more. As Dr. Charles Frederick A'Veisenthal vvas then the examining surgeon of candidates lor positions in the medical department of the Continental Army, it is quite likely that Ahl owed his subsequent appointment to this sur-

Ahl did not remain long inactive. With mat bold, resolute character which he exhib- ited in his subsequent career, he determined to share his lot with the rebels, and, with this design, sought and obtained the position of "surgeon's mate," in Colonel Armand's Legion of the Pennsylvania Line, under Drs. Laroche and Remmickle. In taking this step, since he had not been discharged from the British serv- ice, he exposed himself to great danger in case of capture, and therefore, in accordance with the advice of his colonel, and as a matter of prudence, he changed his name to "Venall." With his corps, he marched northwards, and early in the spring of 1777 we find him en the Hudson above New York City.

Ahl made no claim to the freedom from dan- ger to which his position as non-combatant en- titled him. Like the trained war-horse, he smelt the battle from afar and hastened forward with joy to take part. When detachments of the corps were sent out upon special duty, he accom- panied them as volunteer and shouldered his gun like the privates. So that without doubt he had his share of adventures and hair-breadth es- capes.

There was about this time with the army of the British General Howe a young officer of dragoons, who had lately come over the sea. Although yet scarcely out of his teens, he was full of bravery and ambition and had already entered on that career of stormy activity and cold-blooded cruelty which later made him the terror of the South. It was on the 17th of March, 1777, that young Tarlton led a party of his horse- rnen, bent on robbery and slaughter, up the Hud- son to White Plains. Here in the previous Oc- tober had the Hessian troops, under the brave but unfortunate Von Rail, who some weeks later was captured and killed at Trenton, distino-uished

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themselves by attacking and driving the Ameri- cans from the heights. Tarlton was, moreover, stimulated to bold deeds by his recent capture of General Charles Lee in New Jersey. This officer had been surprised in an inn which was in sight of the American army and safely car- ried off to the enemy's camp.

What now exactly happened we know not — whether Ahl's whole command or only a part of it was engaged. We know that he "defend- ed" the wounded, and it is thereby well to be understood that he stood up manfully for them. However it was, one of Tarlton's pitiless drag- oons split his skull with his sabre and left him upon the ground unconscious and weltering in his blood. From this dreadful blow Ahl suf- fered to the last day of his long life. Only after months did his young and powerful constitution restore him again to health and was he well enough to again fulfill his military duties.

He now sought and obtained a position else- where, with the Brigade of Muhlenberg, under a commission of Congress. It may be conjec- tured that it was the famous German regiment, Muhlenberg's own, to which he w.as assigned and that he saw with it many of the battles in which it participated (Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, Yorktown, etc.), and we may be sure that he was not far from the fighting line. And so he discharged his duty with all zeal and faithfulness until Nov. 6, 1783, when the war ended in a satisfactory peace and he was dis- charged with honor from the service.

He then went to New York Git}' with the in- tention of returning to his native country. But this step was so evidently unwise and impru- dent and accompanied by such danger, that he abandoned it. He settled for a time in Virginia and after some years i-emoved to Westmoreland Co., Penna., not far from Pittsburgh. In 1818, Congress passed an act recognizing the claims of the heroes of the Revolution, under whicn Ahl received an "invalid pension"' as "surgeon's mate in the Pennsylvania Line"' on Mar. 20, 1781. Pie was now 73 and without doubt this small addition to his resources was highly ac- ceptable to the old patriot. His wound now caused him much pain and he was compelled to take large doses of anodynes to obtain even partial relief. Therefore he resolved to seek relief in surgery, and, accordingh', he came from

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Pennsylvania to Baltimore, where he hoped to be "trepanned" and thus to get rid of the sup- posed pressure and irritation of the brain. Whom he consulted we do not know ; probably Jameson, who was from York, Penna., and whose reputation as a bold, original and successful surgeon, was rapidly increasing. But it is al- most certain that the operation was not done, as there is no record of it. So it is probable that our hero continued to suffer from the sabre stroke of Tarlton's dragoon to the end of his life.

In spite of Ahl's age, he continued to show an interest in his profession and we find his name among the members and licentiates of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland. It appears also in the Baltimore City Directory of 1824 and 1827, as "retail apothecary" and his shop was on Eutaw St., opposite the present Camden Station ("Eutaw and Race St."). It was here that he died on July 13th, 1827. Dr. Ahl was a Lutheran minister according to the ac- counts, but I have no evidence of his connection with that denomination while he lived here. His name is in the list of members of Otterbein Church, United Brethren in Christ, corner Con- way and Sharp Sts., and he was buried in the graveyard of that church. He left no will. His wife Christina was administratrix of his estate, but no account was ever filed. There were four sons and two daughters. One of the former, also John, became a physician ; he was educated in Baltimore and died at Newville, Pa., April 9, 1882. Dr. John Alexander Ahl, son of the last-named, attended the University of Md. and Washington Medical College, Balto., graduating at the latter in 1838. He was highly successful in practice and in business — milling, real estate, paper-making, iron manufacturing, etc. After a time he gave up practice for business. He was a member of the 35th Congress, 1856. There are many descendants of Dr. John Peter Ahl in Pennsylvania.

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There is no doubt that the University needs a strong executive if it is to emerge from the rather casual methods of organization into which it has drifted and is to hold its own in the tenser struggle which such institutions must wage if they are to survive in these days. Development of new and ambitious plans for this venerable institution is an en- couraging sign of its vitality, and gives good ground for hope and faith in its iuture^-^News^ — ' — ■ o — ■ — <

In presenting to the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty an oil portrait of Dr. John Francis M:on-- monier, '34, the gift of his children, Dr. Corddl spoke of this worthy physician's family, life and services. He was descended from a French fam- ily— Montmonier de Sconbecque-^that traced its origin to the Crusades. His grandfather came to Baltimore from the Island of San Domingo, at the time of the insurrection of the negroes there in 1793.

Dr. Monmonier was born in 1813, .and diet! in 1894. He received his academic degree at St. Mary's College and his medical degree at the University, where he had for instructors Nathan R. Smith, Eli Geddings, Robley Dunglison, Na- thaniel Potter, Richard Wilmot Hall and Jule.s Timoleon Ducatel. Dr. Cordell gave some in- teresting details of conditions prevailing at the University at that date. His activities were va- ried. He was City Councilman, President of the Board of School Commissioners, Physician to the Board of Health, and Professor in .the Washing- ton University School of Medicine. He was orator and President of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty, and as chairman of its Executive Com- mittee, from 1858 to 1869, he rendered it con- spicuous service by preserving its organization and caring for its property.

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lip, deliberate in manner, precise and effective in speech.

Dr. iVIonmonier died at his residence, Calvert and Read streets, of the infirmities of age.

At the same meeting Dr. Chew presented a por- trait of Dr. John Buckler, '17, 1795-1866, the great family physician of Baltimore. o

Mr. Edward Otto (LL.B., " '83) has re- turned to Baltimore from Toronto, where he went some months since. He has entirely re- covered his health. — Dr. and Mrs. Francis M. Chisolm, of Washington city, were the guests of Dr. and Mrs. Frank iMartin, Christmas.— Dr. j. I. Pennington, '69, has recovered from the injuries received in a fall from a street car several weeks ago. — The late Dr. Wm. Hand Browne, '50, left his estate, estimated to be worth $30,000, to his widow and at her death to his children. — ^Dr. Thos. B. Johnson, '89, of Frederick, Md., was badly beaten about the head and face by a tough to whom he pre- sented a bill, Dec. 26. The man in a rage jumped on the auto and began pummelling him until he was pulled off by his brother. The fellow was arrested, but was bailed out on $500 bond for the action of the court. — Dr. Houston Boyd Hiatt, '07, and family, of Ashboro, N. C, spent the holidays with friends in Baltimore. — Judge Frank I. Duncan, '84, of Baltimore Co., Md., has published a booklet called: "Glimpses of the West, Northwest and Pacific Coast as seen from a Pullman Car." — The game with Loyola College basket- ball team, Dec. 17, resulted in a victory for that team, the score being Loyola, 21, U. Md., 14. — Tlie St. John's Basket ball team beat the Gallaudet team, Dec. 14, 41 to 9. The team is composed of members of the crack football eleven, which won the state title last fall. — Among officers of the Baltimore County Medical Society, elected Jan. 15, are: Vice-Pres., G. Carville McCormick, '90 ; Treas., Frank C. El- dred ; Sec. J. Carroll Monmonier, '86 ; Delegate

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S. W. Cor. Baltimore and Eutaw Sts.

Interest Paid on Deposits.

to Med. and Chir. Faculty, H. Louis Naylor, '60.— The estate of Dr. Pierre G. Dausch, '68, of Baltimore, who died Nov. 26, 1911, is now in litigation, it being claimed by his family that it was diverted from them through undue influence, to the Doctor's nurse. — Dr. Henry P. Hynson, of the firm of Hynson, Westcott & Co., has moved from Roland Park, in the suburbs, to the citv. For some years lie has taken an active part in the aft'airs of Baltimore county and was presi- dent of the Confederated Civic Improvement and Protective Association there.' — Mr. William H. Buckler (LL. B., '94), of Baltimore, now in London, is planning to resume his excavations at Sardis, Asia Minor, next month. Sardis was the ancient capital of Lydia and was ruled over by Croesus. Mr. Buckler is one of the foremost American Archaeologists. — The LTniversitjr won in basket-ball from Mt. St. Joseph's College, Jan. 15,21 to 11.

Dr. John S. Fulton, '81, at present secretary of the International Congress on Hygiene, with headciuarters in Washington, D. C, has been elected secretary of the Maryland State Board of Health. Dr. F. has the matter under advise- ment. He held the position on the State Board until 1907, when he resigned and was succeeded by Dr. Marshall L. Price, '02, who is now suffer- ing with nervous breakdown at a Phila. Hospital. Dr. Fulton is Professor of State Medicine in the LTniversity.— Dr. Charles A¥. Mitchell, '81, is said to be dangerously ill with grippe. — St. John's defeated Washington College, Chester- town, Md., Jan. 17, in basket ball, 86 to 10. Clayton, centre, and Lefty Wilson, left forward, distinguished themselves. — The engagement of Mr. Henry P. Hynson Jr., LL. B., '09, of the firm of Cans and Haman, of Balto., to Miss Mary Charlton Merrick, daughter of Dr. S. K. Merrick, is announced. — Jacob M. Moses, '95, was elected President of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum. — The bam and stable of Dr. Thomas B. Owings, '52, of Ellicott City, was burned Jan. 19. Dr. Owings, who is 82 years and in a critical condition, was in his home near by, which was saved only by the strenuous efforts of the students of Rock Hill College. — The fol- lowing officers have been elected by the Talbot County Medical Society: Pres., Joseph A. Ross, '96, of Trappe ; Vice-Presdts., Samuel C. Trippe,

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TJISTIVERSITY OF MARYLAND. BALTO.. MD.

HON. PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, Governor of Maryland, Chancellor.

ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, Annapolis, Md. (a^'s"a"d"scVen°ces)

Founded 1696. Classical and Scientific College Courses leading to degrees. Special advantages to students purposing to study the professions. Military Department under army officer. Also Preparatory School for boys fitting for St. John's or other colleges. Term begins September 21. Address

THOMAS FELL, Ph. D., LL. D., D. C. L., President.

DEPARTMENT of MEDICINE

Four years' graded course. New Laboratory Build- ing. Clinical advantages unsurpassed. Teaching Staff of 66. 107th Annual Session will begin October 1, 1913, and continue 8 months.

R. DORSET COALE, Ph.D., Dean.

DEPARTMENT of DENTISTRY

33d Annual Session begins October 1, 1912, and •iontinues 7 months. 26 Instructors. New Building. For catalogue containing course of study, etc., apply to TLMOTHY O. HEATWOLE, M. D., D. D. S., Dean,

Baltimore. Md.

DEPARTMENT of LAW

44th Annual Session begins Sept. 23, 1912. Faculty of 12. For catalogue containing full information address the Dean, 1063 Calvert Building, Baltimore, Md.

HENRY D. HARLAN, LL. D., Dean.

DEPARTMENT of PHARMACY

(Formerly Maryland College of Pharmacy.) 70th Annual Session begins September 25, 1912. 11 Instruc tors. New Laboratories. Address

CHARLES CASPARI, JR., Phar. D., Dean,

Baltimore. Md.

75, of. Royal Oak, and Edward R. Trippe, '6.2, of Easton.

At the annual meeting of the Enoch Pratt Free Library on Jan. 21 the following were elected; President, C. J. Bonaparte ; Vice President, Hon. Henry Stockbridge ; Librarian, Bernard C- Stein- er. — Dr. John C. Hemmeter has been elected a member of the German Physiological Society. — Dr. F. H Vinnp, '09, has been appointed Assistant Surgeon of the Fourth Regiment, Maryland Na- tional Guard.

It was a unique experience for Mr. and Mrs. David B. Kirsner to return from their honey- moon on Jan. 16 and find their new bed occu- pied by a sleeping tramp.' Mrs. K. explains that the door was left open for expected wed- ding gifts, and so the tramp walked in and took possession. — ^Dr. John C. Harris, '62, who was paralyzed some months ago, in attempt- ing to escape from his nurse, who had locked the door, fell from the first-story window to the cellar way Jan. 16, and sustained severe <-Uts and bruises.

The Journal of the American Medical Associa- tion, of Jan. 25, p. 309, contains the names of States reciprocating with Maryland.

The Cumberland Academy of Medicine has elected Dr. A. Leo Franklin, "02, President, and Dr. John E. Leggo, '99, Vice-President.

Maryland has reciprocal relations, on the basis of an examination, only with Arkansas, Dela- ware, Illinois, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Texas and A^irginia, and on the basis either of an examination or of a diploma from a reputable medical college, without an examination, if the diploma and the license were issued prior to June, 1892, with Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kan- sas, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Ohio, South Carolina, Ver- mont, West Virginia and Wisconsin. Registra- tion is necessary in all these States. The follow- ing require that }-ou shall pass in Maryland at least one year ; Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Virginia (two years), and West Vir- ginia.— Jr. Am. Med. Asso.

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Professional Building',

330 N. Charles St., Baltimore, Jan. 13, '13. Dear Mrs. Cordell :

It gives me pleasure to enclose a check for $100 for the use of your Home for Widows and Or- phans of Physicians. I am delighted to hear that you are doing such fine work, and sincerely hope that you will prosper more greatly during this year.

With the kindest regards, I am.

Very sincerely yours,

HUGH H. YOUNG.

MARYLAND

Devoted to the Interests of the University of Maryland.

Vol. IX. No. 2.

BILTIMORE, MD., FEBRUARY, 1913.

Pkice 10 Cests

EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS OF CADET GEORGE WASHINGTON TURNER, AT WEST POINT, TO FRIENDS IN VIR- GINIA, I829-3J.

[These letters have an added interest from the fact that the writer lost his life at the hands of John Brown and his party, in Oct., 1859. He was shot through the breast from the engine house at Harper's Ferry, where the insurgents had taken their stand, and died soon after. Al- though he has so much to say about the ladies, he never married.]

The first is dated Nov. 11, 1829, and is ad- dressed to his young sisters at school at Emmits- burg. It is in the high moral style prevalent at that day and full of good advice. As showing the character of the mail service then, it may be mentioned that it was received 11 days after it was v.Titten,

Jan. 22, 1830. He sends his father the results of the examination of his class, just held. His standing is better than he expected. The sub- jects' of examination were drawing, "chymistry" and natural philosophy. The course had been a very difficult one and he had not written a let- ter, read a paper or spent an idle evening for some time. Tlie subjects of study for the remainder of the year were electro-magnetism, optics, as^ tronomy, drawing and chemistry, with a review of the year preparatory to examination in June. He holds an office in the corps which relieves him from a portion of the military duty and allows more time for study. "We have had the small- pox on the Point, but the precautions taken by our surgeon happily prevented its reaching the corps."

March 4, 1830, to his father: "There have been several coiirt-martials here lately. I wa.'^ extremely sorry to hear that our very kind friend.

Col. R. Jones, was involved in some difficidty with Maj. Gen. Macomb. Whatever may be the nature of the charge — which will be made known to us officially only with the decision of the court_ — I sincerely hope that he may be honorably ac- quitted. One officer I know — at present stationed, at this place — and I think there are others, has been removed from Washington, on account of a delicacy felt by their wives to associate with the lady of our Secretary. As it would be rather, unusual to court-martial a colonel for an offence committed b_v his wife, I presume. Col. J.'s de- linquency is of a different nature.

"You have doubtless disapproved of the course which some of the debates have taken in the Sen- ate this year. Though well calculated to elicit the finest efforts of some of the ablest members, I think it was equally well calculated to compro- mise the dignity of the Senate and to encourage and rejuvenate political and sectional . prej,udiGeg. The brilliancy of the efforts which have, already rhed a lustre over the session can scarcely make amends for injury of this sort. Honest industry appears to me preferable to perverted geniiis, Mr. Crockett appears very anxious to. send us all o& from this place. It not infrequently oc- curs that we know not the value of blessings until we lose them. Should we become involved in war, I imagine the people would estimate more highly the value of this Academy. It is, I be^ lieve, the only school in the country where en- gineering is regularly taught and almost the only one where it can be. Instruction in the sciences is at no other institution in America near so thorough as at this. And the attempts made elsewhere to inculcate practically the rigid dis- cipline of military life and to give instruction in the higher branches of tactics, when the au- thority of the instructors was not supported by

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the powerful principle of self-interest and by the strong- arm of the Government, have proved al- niO'Sf jjitterly abortive. You have probably, dear Papa,' iseeh the pamphlet which has been issued during' the course of the winter with regard to this place. I read it sometime since and can say, on my own knowledge, that many of the stat^^aents cont-a-ined in it are untrue and the con- clusions deduced entirely false. Truth, where she appears, is presented wrong-side foremost — if I may use the expression — with her features so distorted as scarcely to be recognizable. The author is without doubt Captain Partridge, who vv'as succeeded, as Superintendent of this place, by Col. Thayer and who is very far from havh;g recovered from the violent offence which he took on. that occasion.

"Amid my occupations here, my dear Father, I never cease to^ regret that I can not relieve you of .the many cares and toils of business. I would willingly leave them all for that purpose. Your truly affectionate letters I hail as the greatest boon I can receive and they never fail to remind me aiiew of all my g66d resolutions. I fre- cjuently reflect on the subject of a profession for life,' but always come to the conclusion that the circumstances which will most materiallv affect the selection are not yet sufficiently developed to indicate a choice."

He adds in this letter a P. S. to Miss Philippa, a connection containing some tender expressions. Jt is rather rare for a young man to write a post- script 'to his sweetheart in his father's letter. He refers to Miss Portia, her sister: "So Miss Portia is actually arid positively married. Well, the idea seems rather strange when I call her to nifnd romping and playing on the green lawn at Wheatland, she slapping riiy cheeks and I pull- mg out her combs and disarranging her beauti- ful, locks. She was then, I may say, a girl and I but a little boy."

March 30, 1830, to his father. The Equinoc- tial storm had just occurred and had been suc- ceeded by balmy spring weather. He is looking

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forward with impatience to the next examination, which would make him a first classman with but one course of studies before him. The second year studies, which he was now reviewing, were the most difficult and longest of the four. The first year course was comparatively easy and the privileges considerable.

May 6, 1830, to his sisters: "Spring, with all her brightest decorations, encompassed by the most delightful perfumes, diffusing' pleasure and exciting brilliant hopes and cheerful gaiety, is just hailirig'ais here.' The prospects around us are of the finest order. The dense woods on the monntain-sides present the most charming ap- pearance.' The}' look mellow and rich. Surely sparing is the time for innocent pleasure, for re- iiewal of hope, of friendly feeling, of good reso- liitions and of gratitude. We enjoy the spring and fall seasons here without fear of sickness, one of the usual attendants at least of the Fall to the South. We enjoy fine health here, at pres- ent, and anticipate a great deal of pleasure during the course of the summer. Our encampment has its pleasures as well as its toils and I look for- ward with no common zest to their coming, after five or six months hard study in Barracks. How delighted should I be if you could come up here on a flying trip. LTpon my return I hope to have the pleasure of attending you on such an ex- cursion. I frequently catch myself dreaming about a second glimpse of the rosy cheeks and bright eyes of the Old Dominion. The year will soon pass."

"You appear both to have been highly pleased — as I was sure you would be — with your visit to Mt. Vernon." (The families were nearly related.) "It is not only a most beautiful spot, combining the gifts of nature with those of art, but well calculated to excite emotions of the highest order. The bosom which would not thrill with sentiments of gratitude,' of pride and of philanthropy on reflecting on the characters of its former inmates would possess but little sensibility. The bones of General and Mrs. Wash- ington, it appears, are at length to be removed. A country's gratitude is a debt often of tardy payment, but, as it is gained only by sterling merit, so is its value inappreciable. The land- scape, as you observe, Christine, from the Mt. \'ernon mansion house is very fine, though not

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so good as I have seen elsewhere or as I see here every day. The prospect here, besides the advantages of that at Mt. Vernon, possesses greater variety and is more extended. The coun- try seats on the bank of the Hudson are the most beautiful that I have ever seen and I imagine scarcely exceeded in richness and variety of pros- pect of any in the world. I am told that about Boston the scenery is equally fine. I anticipate a great deal of pleasure from a visit to that part cf the country, either upon graduating or be- fore."

June 17, 1830, to his father: "The dullness of campi life is generally diverted in the evening after supper, in spite of fatigue, by a dance — a stag dance for want of ladies. Our rustic amuse- ment has, however, frequently attracted the at- tention and attendance of our fair visitors at the hotel, and thev have more than once con- descended to honor. us by joining in the amuse- ments with much zest."

"I had intended inquiring of you in this let- ter some of the principal distinctions between the principles of the old Federal and Democratic ]iarties, but in perusing Mr. Wirt's life of Henry, I have found them there concisely enumerated."

"The examination is not yet over, though that of my class was concluded two or three days since and we are now enjoying the enviable ofiiitn cum dignitate. The rolls have not yet been published. In my next I will inform you of my standing."

Another postscript to Miss Phil.

Camp Eaton, W. Point, July 2d, 1830, to his father: "I fear you will be sorry to hear that I have lost my old standing in general merit by one — being now 7th, whereas I was before 6th. Give yourself no uneasiness for my feel- ings on the occasion, my dear father, for I am quite unconcerned at it, though I hope not culpa- bly so. Mr. Prentiss, the gentleman who has risen me, tells me that he has seen the aggre- gates of the marks on the different branches and that he exceeded me but by a single unit. Pre- viously to the last examination I was above Mr.

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P. in philosophy and chemistry and below him in drawing. Though I have not seen the rolls on the particular branches since the examina- tion, I am under the impression that I am still above him in philosophy and chemistry, but that he has risen and I have fallen in drawing, for which I have but little taste, though it is here ranked equally with chemistry. Tlie first seven are Park, Allen, Clay, Peyton, Norton, Prentiss, Turner. A difiference of standing of one or two, about my place in the class, I have learned to consider not very important. I pray God to extend you peace and happiness. Your tenderly attached son, G. W. T."

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The residence of C. Ross Mace, LL. B., '90, at Rossville, Balto. Co., a member of the Balto. Bar, was destroyed by fire Jan. 29. His wife, who was ill, had a narrow escape. — Dr. W. B. Gambrill, of Ellicott City, 78, has been elected Sec-Treasurer of the Howard Co. Medical So- ciety.—Dr. John Szlupas, '91, and two colleagues have opened a hospital in connection with the International College of Midwifery, at Scranton, Pa. — Of 8 graduates of this University, who took the Dec. State Board exams, in Baltimore, and whose final averages are given in the report of the Board (Md. Med. J I., Feb.), 7 passed with marks ranging from 75 to 84, and 1 failed with a mark of 73. — According to the News, Edwin G. Baetjer, LL. B., '90, of the firm of Amenable, Baetjer and Howard, of Balto., is said to have the largest salary of any member of the Balti- inore Bar, his income being estimated by some at $100,000 per annum.— Roland B. Harvey, LL. B., '96, Secty. of the American Legation at San- tiago, Chile, has arrived in Baltimore on a visit to his parents. — Chas. H. Knapp, LL. B., '95, of the firm of Harman, Knapp, Ulman & Tucker, of Baltimore, has been spending several months at Blue Ridge Summit on account of impaired health. — Among those appointed special vaccine physicians of Baltimore are the following: Drs. Henry H. Weinberger, '08, J. Knox Insley, '08, Jol-.nGirdwood, '94, Henry E. Gale, '85, Henry C. liouck, '05. W. F. Skillman, '00, J. L. Tur- lington, '92, Edward G. Altvater, '11.— The W.ake Co., N. C, Meiical Society has passed resolu- tii'ii.s in appreciatic:i of the signal service ren-

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clered by Dr. Richard H. Lewis, 7L of Raleigh, in securing heaUh legislation and the enforce- ment of laws.— The St. John's-Loyola game^ on Feb. 8 resulted in favor of the former, 34 to 12, giving the former the Intercollegiate Basket- ball championship of the State. The, St. John's team consisted of Wilson, Welch,, Clayton, Mel- lon and Thompson. — Among those admitted to the Baltimore Bar, Feb. 7, were .Samuel Plot- kin, LL, B., '12, and Emanuel Milton Altfekl, '10.— Manes E. Fuld, Ph. G., '83, fell on the icy pavement, Feb. 10, and sustained a fracture of the knee-cap. He was taken to the LTnion Prot- estant Infirmary for treatment. — Judge Henry Stockbridge was re-elected Vice-President of the Md. Histor. Society on the 10th. — The new edi- tion of Cathell's "Physician Himself", is out, yvith the author's final revision. — Oregon Milton Den- nis, LL. B., was knocked down and had his face cut by a street car, Feb. 20. — Dr. William E. Wiegand and family are spending some wee;ks in Florida and Cuba. — The health officers , of Baltimore Co. have passed resolutions of regret on the death of Dr. R. C. Massenburg, .late of Towson. — At a meeting of the Chicago Medical Society on Feb. 12, held in honor of its past Presidents, Dr. J. Rawson . Pennington un- veiled a portrait of Dr. X. S. Davis, the first President.

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DEPARTMENT OF LAW.

One of the ways in which the standard of a school is tested is by the records made by its, .graduates. While it is undoubted that the Law School of the University of Mar.ylan_d is in the front rank with other law schools throughout the country, it is very pleasing when evidence of the efficacy of pur training is brought to our attention. The following is a letter which Mr. Hunter, who is the Secre- tary to Judge Harlan, has received . from- Mr. Virtume P. A. Ouinn, who , studied law at our school. The message contained therein speaks

GEORGE O. GOVER

IIOS. CHARLES ST.,

BALTIMORE, MD.

for itself. It is hoped that Mr. Ouinn's future may be rewarded with the same success which has marked his first step in his chosen profes- sion. ,

Room 3, Richards Bldg.,

Norwich, Conn., 1, 18, '13. I took the Connecticut bar exams, in De- cember.and passed them suceessfully and was adpitted to practice law in this State on Janu- ary 14th, 1913. Much' credit is due the Uni- versity of Maryland, in my opinion, for ten Yale men failed for the second time. This was my first attempt and I was successful. VIRTUME. P. A. OUINN (Associated with Amos A. Browning, Esq.| The President of the Democratic Club has been in receipt of several letters from, the In^ augural Committee for President Wilson's .in- auguration inviting the students of the Uni- versity to. take part in the "Students' Division." of the parade. Johns Hopkins has decided to send a delegation and Princeton and a num- ber of other colleges and tmiversities will be represented. The matter has been taken up with the Faculty, but we are informed has re- ceived little encouragement there, but the of- fer remains and if any department of the Uni- \'ersity desires to be represented it may do so. 1 he students. will, wear cap and gowns and be decorated with a sash bearing their school col- ors and other emblems. The entire outfit will cost $2.Q.O and can be hired in Washington from firms who have received contracts for tliis costuming. The men who do take part will be able to see the pageant from an es- pecially advantagous position. Marching down Pa. Avenue in the parade, they will have an opportunity to. look at all the decorations, which certainly cannot be done from the side- walks, and after arriving at the Capitol they will be placed in such a position as to be able to review the military section of the parade, which will immediately follow them in line.

The Committee of Arrangements for this Di- vision of the parade inform us that a school cannot be represented unless it has at least twenty men ready to march. If there are an}^ men in other Departments that are interested in this matter, more information can be given

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them by addressing- a communication to the President of the Democratic Club, either at the Law School or in care of Dr. Cordell.

The Senior Class at the Law School are es- pecially pleased to announce that they have Secured Mr. Albert C. Ritchie to speak to them oh the fuilctions of 'the Public Service -Com-

'^mission. Mr. Ritchie as is well known was Assistant Counsel for this Commission and

"made quite a record for himself in that ca- pacity.

His address on the functions of the Commis-

■ B!on should be particularly interesting to all the students, but especially wilLit be of in- terest to the members of the Senior Class in- asmuch as it will serve to give them a line

'on their Thesis topic, which' is, as has been

■ before announced in these columns, "The lines

■ rif demarcation between Executix-e, Judicial and Legislative functions of government, with special reference to the acts of a municipal board or commission." The Public Service

■ Commission is such a commission as is con- • lemplated in this subject and Mr. Ritchie will

have an interested audience of Seniors. All students at the University are most heartily invited to attend as well as any of our collegi- ' ate brothers at St. John's.

H. L. G. — — ■ o ^

DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE.

Up to the preseht time over fifty applications have been receivecl by Dr; Coale' for places as Senior Internes in the University Hospital for the coming year. Accommodations are made for only forty,' so undoubtedly Some of the men are to be disappointed in not bsiiig able to secure an appointment. To obviate such an occtirrencei happening in the future and also that every 'future member of' the Senior Class may fare equally with his fellows as regards hospital work, it has been stated on good au- 'thority, that "after May 1914, each succeeding ' Senior Class will be divided into four sections, "each section to pu't in three months in the hos-

Menu, Banquet and Dance Cards, Commencement Invitations and Programs, Diplomas, Certificates, Engrossing U of M Stationery for Classes and Fraternities. Letter Heads, Envelopes' Cards, etc., for Physicians, Lawyers and Dentists. '

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pital. As matters stand at present, a great in- equality exists as regards the house men. Many of the students reside in Baltimore and to en- ter the Hospital would be a great additional expense. Moreover, as happens this year, all who desire the positions cannot be placed. Should the proposed project be made a reality by the Faculty, it will meet with the warm ap- - probation of the students. Prof. Shipley, who is always working for the interests of the stu- dents, is reported to be the father of the move- ment. ,

Commencing Saturday, Feb. 1, and every Saturday thereafter until the close of the col- lege year, Prof Spear will hold clinics at Bay \'iew H^ospital for the Ltsane.

Dr. Clopton has taken charge of Dr. Robin- son's section in Physicial Diagnosis, Dr. Rob- inson wishing to devote his time to Skin Dis- eases.

It is safe to say that by far the vast ma- jority of the students were vaccinated during the past smallpox scare. No ill results fol- lowed except in two cases. Mr, Norbert Nitsch, president of the Senior Class, shortly after -being vaccinated suffered a reaction ; his arm swelling considerably and necessitating lancing. Mr. Mordecai, of the Junior Class, also suffered some ill results, which forced him to spend a few days in the University Hospital. From latest reports both are progressing very favorably.

The room opposite the Dean's office, which heretofore has been idle, has been completely renovated in anticipation of the Provost's com- ing. Dr. Fell may feel assured that he will be royally welcomed by the students and that he will have their earnest co-operation in every manner possible.

The regular monthly meeting of the Ran- dolph Winslo-»v Surgical Society was held Mon- day evening, Jan. 26, in Davidge Hall, the President, Mr. Breeding, presiding. After the regular business transactions, papers were read by Mr. Callahan- and Mr. Breeding. The sub- "ject of Mr. C-allahan's paper was "The Treat- ment of Cholelithiasis." Mr. Breeding's topic was "Thyroidectomy." The following mem- bers of the Junior Class were recently elected to membership in the society: Messrs. Vin-

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son, Byers, Denny, Johnson, Katzenberger. Walsh, Warner, Bradley, Mordecai, Hicks, Metcalfe, and Lemba'ugh.

The next meeting will be held Monday, Feb. 2'i, at which meeting three papers of surgical mterest will be read, to be followed by a gen- eral discussion.

Prof. Hirsh is adding materially to the Junior Pathology course by means of stereop- ticon lectures which are to be held weekly in the Chemical Hall.

It is with much regret that the students note the continued absence of two of their much esteemed professors — Drs. Hemmeter and C. Mitchell. In their absence, Dr. Conser is help- ing the Sophs osmose Physiology while Prof. Zueblin is holding the Junior Medical Clinics m lieu of Prof. Mitchell. Prof. Hirsh is lec- turing to the Seniors on Diseases of Children.

While it is generally stated that the stu- dents of the U. of M. are lacking in college spirit, still, if that accusation be true, it is be- cause the rowdyism coincident with painting the town red and other such unbecoming con- duct, which to the scandalized laity are get- ting to be regarded as a part of a college edu- cation, are foreign to this University. The men studying at the University are for the most part serious, they come here to work and not to play and so frivolity and actions which bring not credit, but disgrace to themselves and this school are unknown or at least not countenanced. But the students are fired with college spirit, not the wild type, but that which has for its object the betterment of their school. The abolition of hazing, the Honor System and many other reforms of like nature . were almost wholly student moves. Nor could the spirit of the students be better ex- emplified than by the joy with which the an- nouncement that the University was again listed as a class A school was received. The men have always felt that they were receiving a course equal to that given in any other col- lege, yet there are Thomases like the Biblical

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Thomas and the now proverbial Missourian who must be shown and now we are able to show them in black and white, and to spread the good word along'. The University is more a Southern school, not known very well in the T^^orth, yet not unknown. In this regard one of the University's present students happened to be talking with one of the graduates of the liest known medical school in Massachusetts and whose opinion was most apt to be biased concerning the worth of the University. "Yes," he said, "since you've decided to go there to school I've been making inquiries and a fellow practitioner tells me that it is quite as good as Hopkins.'' We have always kept that opinion deep in our hearts, nor are we slow to speak it out at times. As the poet said, "What's in a name?'' Yet there is much that the hun- gry poet ne'er dreamed in his dreamy dreams of pen and that's what we are striving for, to help push the University along the high road TO fame and name, and when by the Grace of God and the Faculty we are blessed with our sheepskins, to be apostles and help sow the good seed. AVe have no big endowments, no fancy laboratories — yet withal we are supreme- ly happy. And that the University does not only turn out well educated men could not be better attested than by the following incident: On a train bound for Philadelphia, a former student of our college chanced to strike up a conversation with a young fellow. ■ Among ether subjects, the talk turned to that of col- leges and when our man mentioned that he was from the University, his new found friend Vv-as much elated. "I've been studying at a college in Philadelphia," he said, "and you know your team played ours last year. I'm sorry — partly so — to say that your team lost, but notwithstanding bad decisions that would make one feel like chasing the uinpire off the field, your men acted like real gentlemen in every way. I've been thinking of studying medicine and so I've decided that if your Uni- versity can send such men to represent them in the baseball team, that all the rest of the men must be gentlemen and the college a good college." So we are not only known by our works, but by our actions, and actions speak

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louder than words or works and when the poet taid that latter he wasn't dreaming.

The news from the Freshman, Sophomore, Junior and Senior Classes is very melancholy, but we hope that after the smoke of the battle clears away they will need no Marc Antony for eulogy purposes. Examinations dim the horizon. For Freshmen it is practical anat- omy, for the Sophs, physiological lab., for the Juniors, clinical lab., and for the Seniors, sur- gery. "Outside of that we're all right."

Professor R. Winslow reports additions to the Pathological Endowment Fund during January, viz: M. C. Freilinger, '06, $10; W. C. Gordon, '07, $10; making- the total to Feb. 1, 1913, including Robinson bequest of $5,030, $10,392.17.

Mrs. Ethel P. Clark, '06, Superintendent of University Hospital Training School for . Nurses, has been elected President of the Md. State Association of Nurses.

A card party for LTniversity Hospital was held at the Stafford Hotel, Feb. 19. A com- mittee of ladies had charge.

Delta Chapter of the Kappa Psi Fraternity, which is quartered at 242 \Y . Hoffinan St., held its annual dance at Lelimann's Hall, on Feb. 17.

Mr. Faustino Sarinas, Jr., of the Junior Class, passed his first year of medical study at San Tomas LTniversity, Manila, and his sec- ond at Valpairiso University, Chili.

Professor T. L. Patterson is writing a text- book of biology, which he expects to finish by the end of the year.

J. Hernando Minor, M. D., '03, has been sampling the city lately in the interest of the Fellows Medical Manufacturing Co., of Mont- real.

Dr. J. Holmes Smith, Jr., 'OS, Associate in Anatomy and Assistant to the Surgical Clinic, passed a successful examination for the Pub- lic Health and Marine Hospital service in Jan- uary, and is now awaiting orders to enter upon duty.

Mrs. Alma Rush, wife of Mr. Playford L. Rush, died suddenly at University Hospital, Feb. 18, of acute peritonitis, after two days' illness.

University Hospital has been made "the bas'e hospital for the First Brigade, Md. Nat. Guard, and Dr. Wm. J. Coleman, the medical super- intendent, has been appointed an Assistant Surgeon and assigned to duty with the Fourth Regiment. JMilitiamen injured at the camps or armories will be sent to the Hospital under special arrangement with the State, receiving the personal attention of Major Robert P. Bay, chief medical officer of the Brigade, who is on . the hospital staff.

Dr. Louis Rubin, '10, has resigned frbrii the superintendency of the Jewish Hospital for Consumptives at Reisterstowri after twpyears' service. Dr. AVm. Gracie, '.10,. has -located'in Cumberland, 31 Bedford St. ''''"'•,< •

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ENDOWMENT FUND. -

The following is .a general and comp"a*ati-ve . statement of the condition of the Faii>d,ji^en from the Treasurer's recent report';*^ '■''*':',

NameofFimd. _ 1M2. ;' " Sir'.: Iiil'ivnse.

Gen. Endowment Fund..".' $ T,C17.9^-''$fW,'ii!iJ:.(it! '.VlliO.liS

Fae. of r h ysic Fuud .■ 11,707.37 , ;: 17,-7J3'.efl ?;,s^})|p.:i2

Frank Scholarship 2,59C.66 ?,598.C9 . 2.0:!

Hemir.eter Fund :- -3-7^.92 -4,239.80 447.!ll

Frifl; Keseaix-h Fund .:UT 017.35' 671.S0 .54.t."i

Law Fuud 23.40 •_ - 125,0;3: —^^USl.Til

Hitchcock Schohirships ..^ ^5,04^.3^,,, ,5,175.2-t 126.93

Catherine Gibson Fund I,i23'!9l' ' 'i;489.19: ; : 6a.2S

Winslow Scholarship • 2,502.50 2,504.72 .2.22

Pharmacy Fund 0.00 11.30 5.30

Dental Fund 1.00 1.00'

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$35,390.40 .ft2,SS9.18 $7,492.72

*The actual increase has been slightly larger

than the figures would Indicate for the reason that

where premiums have been paid for bonds;, 1 the

amount of the premiums has begn charged;- loff,

while in the case of bonds purchased below par

they are carried at their cost prices.

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We have received $20 from Prof. Herbert. T. Tiffany, of the law faculty, for the Unjversitv Endowment Fund, an annual subscripti0ii,„p.lso the following: Judge James P. Gorter, $20: Joel Gutman & Co. (an.), $10; Dr. Wm. H. Marsh, $5 ; J. Edwin Hengst, Ph. G., $5.

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"'"ttfs orriciAL obqan of the qenebal alumni association. BALTIMORE, FEBRUARY, 1913.

The hours of Provost Thomas Fell at the Uni- "Versity Building, on Lombard St., are 3-5 P. M., Moncfay, Wednesday and Saturday. o '

Mr.- -Samuel Want, LL. B., '08, has established "The Co-operative Collection Agency of Balti- more City," with offices at 1243-1253 Calvert BIJ^.

•"iVoze'" iS' the time to get cap and gozvn. All

■"■ prof essioTial and academic graduates should have

' such necessities these days, for use at the fre-

■''qu'erttly" ''fecUirring public functions — academic

day, cb'itirriericemeUt, etc. See ad.

'The' ■library 'urgently needs additions to coan- plete its set of the Index Medicus. There may be some physicians whO' read this journal who #duld*t)e' willing toi donate a set — a volume or separate numbers. If there are any such they

are requested to communicate at once with Dr. Cordell. We will purchase them if required. Please note this carefully.

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The following are those who have held the office of president in the General Alumni Asso- ciation since its foundation, Jan. 21, 1903: B. Howard Haman, LL. B., 1903-05 (2 terms); Wilmer Brinton, M. D., 1905; Oregon Milton Dennis, LL. B., 1906 ; J. Harry Tregoe, LL. B., 1907; B. Merrill Hopkinson, M. D., D. D. S., Apr., 1908; John B. Thomas, Ph. G., 1909 {lyi year); Walter I. Dawkins, A. M., Nov., 1910; Charles E. Sadler, 1911 ; James W. Bowers, LL. B., 1912. In the case of Mr. Thomas, the elec- tion was postponed till November, on account of the new constitution and change of date of annual meeting to Academic Day. o ' — , —

The Pennsylvania Branch of the General Alumni Association held its 8th annual meeting and banquet at the Continental Hotel, Philadel- phia, on the evening of February 13, Dr. Lewis H. Adier, President, presiding. Professor Ran- dolph Winslow delivered the address, . in which he spoke especially of the changes taking place in the University, of the new Provost and the improvements which are making of it a new in- stitution, of our hopes, our aspirations and our needs. A very fine supper was partaken of, after which the following officers were elected : Presi- dent, James E. Clawson, M. D., "55, of Phila. ; i'ice-Pres., William H. Lowell, D. D. S., '86, of Lancaster; Scc.-Treas., John C. C Beale, D. D. S., '92, of Philadelphia. The next meeting, we understand, will be held at York. 0

In defining the term "full-time instructor," as applied to medical colleges, in answer to a query by Dr. Harry Leffman, of Phila., the Journal of the American Medical Association throws light on this question, which is one of great present interest to the schools. The following terse def- inition is given: "Tlie 'full-time teacher' is one whose work is in the college ; his private library is there ; his research work is there ; his interests are there; he can be readily found by the stu- dents tO' whom his work is a constant inspira- tion. Instead of the empty, lifeless laboratory

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of former 'times' headed by the busy practitioner " the 'full-tinie teacher's laboratory is an ' active

orderly place — ^^a' tonstanf and present example 'to' those who' are fortuiiate enough to become his

pupils." Of 'research "it says :\'''' As to research,

■'the expert' teacher must' 'of necessity be engaged

' m fesearch if___'he'l^' to keep up with' the ' rapid de-

■"veloprhe'n^s^ of his''''sub'ject and'i'f 'he'4s to"6'ring

' into the college the' spirit of irivestigatiori' with

' 'which 'ever'v medical' stii'dent"sho''uld'becorne"'im-

''b«edV' '■' '"■ '"' ""-''" - '"''«' '^' .>,tiiT. -,. K^- . - 0 ^ — //,,!•. :/,

'"The necessity of 'thorough 'r/in/ffl/ instruction 'Yn rhedica'l "education is self-evident." "'Btit 'such "a tfaihmW''c'an'6iiiy^ be obtained 'by' residence in '■'a hdsfiital. ft'ence 'hospital 'service' beconies a " necessary 'complerhent' '61 the medical curriculum. '"The'''5th''''yfeai'' woiil'd' ''pfe'rmit ' this and round 'but the Ahlerlc'ah'syst'erh',' hitherto lacking in com- ' pie{eHess;'''Th^''Univ'lrsity of 'Mai-yland, with its .s'plend'i'cf hospital 'of 250 beds, is in a condition t'o'meet this' new demand. ' For'50''y'ears it has been 'the' fortutiaf'e' posses'sbi: of its own'- hospital, 'entirely ■uhde'r the control of its medical faculty, ■' and' it i's''th'tis' enabled to make all the necessary regulations which will secure for each of its grad- uates the hospital training contemplated by the ' adoption of the Sth j'ear — when it comes.' ... - . '; ■■ " o 1^— ' ■ '

"The hew' Prb'z'o'if 'has entered upon his duties

with cornt^'^riflable' 'energy. The 'old "university

'has Waked up and w'ith''6ars erect is hearkening to

the ' signs 'of th'i times. " "With sound judgment,

'Dr. Fell realizes ' that the q'tiestioh of 'finance is

'the'vitil 6h'e"domihating all 'iristituti'o'ns of learn-:

ingi 'and that' the ability to ' maintain' ' themselves '

' in' the storm ^and' stress of the hour, nay more,'

' 'to progress— a 'necessity of their continuance —

"' is 'dependent ontheiir pecuniary resources. Hence

one of the 'first siibjects to' which he has turned

his''attehtioh''is ways and mean's. It is easier

to say that ' money must be raised than to tell

ho'w it is to be done or to do it. But Dt. Fell is

'very fertile in expedients, he has unlimited tact

""^nd persuasive' powers, and we await the result

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'Of. interest at this time is the account of the dedication of the Trees Gymnasium and Athletic Field of the University of Pittsburgh, on Oct. 3, 1912. At a dinner' given tO~ the Football Team

■on Dec. 2, 1910, Mr. J. C. Trees-, of the class of 1895, announced his intention of giving $100,000 for the purpose of erecting a" gymnasium and constructing a new athletic field. The work was begun in April, 1911, and was completed at, the opening of the present session. A pamphlet is- sued bv the university gives an interesting illus- trated account, of the proceedings, accompanying the dedication,' including the address of Robert Tait McKenzie,- Director of Physical Training, University of Penna., the donor and others. Hear what- Mr. Trees- said: "The Gymnasium; and Field were given to the university,, first because I love 'Old'U.'of P.'; second because at the, time

. I felt that, of all the cr3ang needs, it' was the one most pressing ; and last, because. I wanted in some substantial manner to repay part of the debt I owe her.'" When will our "Trees" make

ns appearance :

A great event on the Pacific Coast, a\\ epoch in the progress of far western medicine, was the dedication of tlie Lane Medical Library of Le- land Stanford Jr. Uiiiz'ersity, at Sau Francisco, en Nov. 3, 1912. Tl-ie building was erected with funds provided by Dr. Levi Cooper Lane and Pauline C. Lane, his wife, amounting to $40,000 in money and one-third of real estate valued at $150,000, supplemented by funds contributed by the University Trustees.

The library now numbers 40,000 volumes, being the largest of any of the university libraries in America and the seventh in size of all the medical' libraries in the country. The building was constructed of grey sandstone on a- stee! frame. Handsome mural paintings ■ adorn the reading room. The stock rooms are fireproof and can' be cut off by metal doors from the rest of the building. There are accommodations for 80,000 volumes and indefinite extension, with special libraries and reading rooms.

We can well excuse our California brethren and the authorities of the western university for

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the outburst of pride, of exultation, of boastful- ness, that characterized this event. We congratii- late them on their great acquisition, which is one step towards that three-fold metropolitanism — New York, Chicago, San Francisco — toward

which they aspire. -■

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We have received with the compliments of Hynson, Westcott & Co., a handy little book, entitled "The Modern Materia Medica, Third Edition," gotten out by the Druggists' Circular of New York. It is a yearly compilation by the able editorial staff of that journal and is up to ■date, reliable and remarkably comprehensive. It gives "the Source, Chemical and Physical Prop- erties, Therapeutic Action, Dosage, Antidotes and Incompatibles of all Additions to the newer Ma- teria Medica likely to be called for on Prescrip- tions, with name and address of the manufac- turer or proprietor and in case of Foreign Arti- cles, of the American Agent." It will prove a handy help to the physician and pharmacist and should be kept close at hand for reference. This is in the line of helpfulness to the profession which characterizes everything that this firm does. The profession and the community are fortunate in having such a high-toned and progressive jjharmaceutical establishment in their midst as Hynson, Westcott & Co.

In the insurance of Iiis life for the benefit of the University, Dr. Hemmeter has set an exam- ple that should be followed by others. In no v.'ay can a friend of the University fielp it so ef- fectuallv as by this means. The annual tax is moderate and not burdensome, the ultimate profit is comparatively large, much larger than could be realized by any ordinary subscription. The idea is not a new one — it has been suggested before, but it is difficult to induce those wiho^ ought to be interested to adopt it. We hope that some will be impressed with its advisability and act accordingly.

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The Annual Baltimore Alumni Banquet .of St. John's College (Department of Arts _and Sciences) was held at the Hotel Belvedere, Bal- timore, Feb. 15. Mr. Philemon H. Tuck was elected President and Judges John P. Briscoe. James P. Gorter, Henry D. Harlan, Walter I. Dawkins and H. Arthur Stump were elected Vice-Presidents. J. H. C. Kemp was made,- Sec- retary and Peter P. Blanchard Treasurer. The banquet having been disposed of, Judge Dawkins, Retiring President and Toastmaster, called upon the various speakers, Mr. Tuck, Dr. Fell, Dr. Winslow, Mr. John S. Newman, '90, of Freder- ick, Mr. Addison E. Mullikin, '95, Professor Gunn and Mr. John S. Gates. Much was said in praise of the action of the Regents in electing Dr. Fell to the Provostship. Dr. Fell expressed his gratification at being selected to guide. the destinies of the University. The esprit de corps of St. John's men is never lacking at these meet- ings or indeed at any other tirne, and manifested itself in the usual enthusiastic way. The Execu- tive Committee for the year consists of Freder- ick Sasscer, Dr. Wirt A. Duvall, Dr. J§mes A. Nydegger, L. B. K. Claggett, Edwin Warfield, Jr., and John T. Harrison. There were 62 sub- scribers to the banquet. , , o

The question of admitting zvomen to profes- sional schools has its advocates and opponents. Theoretically it is still sub judice, practically it has been successfully tested. In our own institu- tion women have been admitted in the depart- ments of pharmacy and dentistry for some y^^grs and they have not proven objectionable; indeed their companionship seems to have exercised a rather beneficial efifect upon students of the other sex, who are more or less restrained in their conduct thereby. The Johns Hopkins has made a full trial of men in its medical school, and while they may not have proved altogether welcome to the teachers, they certainly have not interfered in any way, so far as we can see, with the pros- perity of that institution. Why should they not be admitted tO; the law and rnedical departments of the University of Maryland? What greater objection is there to their taking up the study of law, than that of pharmacy or dentistry? We know of one lady who is exceedingly ^anxious

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to pursue the law course here and there are oth- ers, no doubt, since women are aspiring in this as well as other directions hitherto monopolized by men. There are no serious objections to it on the grounds of propriety and 'morals and there are manifest advantages on financial grounds. Both the law and medical departments could increase their income by it annually by several thousand dollars. Why not open these departments tO' them ? The trend of events is strongly in the direction of greater privileges and opportunities for women. Why not exercis.e a little foresight and wisdom by meeting the tide halfway and ben- efiting bv it at once?

The report of the Endowment Fund will be a disappointment to many who^ hoped or expect- ed that it would reach or closely approximate the $50,000 mark. Tlie deficiency appears in the Hemmeter Fund. When Judge Stockbridge, act- ing Provost, announced last Academic day that Dr. Hemmeter had contributed $5,300 to the fund for his chair, $5000 in securities and $300 in cash, the nature of the securities was not known. It turned out that they consisted of a life insurance policy. This of course cannot be included in the report of the fund and explains why the Hemme- ter Fund is $4,239.86 instead of "about $10,- 000.", The chief increase in the Ftmd was in the "Fac. of Physic Fund" and is due largely to Dr. Randolph Winslow's efl^orts in behalf of

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the Pathological department. The increase in the General Fund was $646.68 ; as the Chairman of th€ Committee on Endowment added $315 to that Fund, the rest of this $648.68 must have been derived from interest.

The Chairman regrets that he is not able to publish the Treasurer's report in full.

It is now 16 years since the Fund was founded' and the Chairman of the Endowment Committee recalls with pleasure that every contribution re- ceived by him has been turnefl over to the Trus- tees in its entirety. Not in a single case has a cent been lacking, notwithstanding the expense

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We regret to learn that the District of Colum- bia Branch of the General Alumni Association, which a few years ago seemed sO' vigorous, has lapsed into a state of innocuous and apparently irremediable desuetude. No meeting has been held for several years and it seems impossible to aroiise interest. We recently suggested to some of the Washington brethren, that this was a good time to revive it when the university has just entered upon a new era and that our new provost could doubtless be induced to attend a called meeting and make an address. Drs. Harry Hurtt, the last President, and A. C. Valentine, Corresppnding Secretary, adopted this suggestion and sent cn.it notices of a preliminary meeting at the ofifice of the former. Not a single person besides themselves attended. Dr. Valentine writes: "Dr. Hurtt has exhausted every means to arouse interest but to no avail. I regret very much to make such a gloomy report, but must state facts. However, I am in hopes of some day Reviving interest by means of younger blood." We sympathize deeply with Dr. Valentine, who is a true friend and loyal alumnus of the univer- sity. It is men like Beale and Valentine that form the real backbone of a university.

Horatio Gates Jameson, a graduate of the Uni- versity of Maryland, class of 1813, achieved gre.it distinction by his experimental studies with the animal ligature, which were duplicated by Lord Lister a generation later. These studies, based on animal experimentation, are pronounced b}' Dr. Marcy, of Boston, to be "monumental."

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Physick, of Phila., introduced the animal liga- They went abroad' soon after and are how in ture in 1806, but made no publication' pi. his ex-, Egypt.^ — William Herbert Pearce, M D.., '91, of perience until 1816. Jameson's. , work .is brotight ,. Baltimore, to Miss Sarah Frames Ferguson, at out in a medical prize essay, published in. the Charleston S. C, Feb. 4. They reside at 2105 Medical Recorder oi Phila., vpl..,,xii' 1837, and ..,.Morth' Charles St. — James Emm Die hi, M. D., entitled "Observations . upon, ,Tfaiu-nati.c ,^|^em- ^ //, of Trenton, N. J., to Miss Lillie May Tucker, orrhage. Illustrated by Experimej]ts up.on Ljiving ,at Kaleigli,'' N. C./Jam' 18.' — H. Burton Stehen- Animals." Followino- these experiments - he , ap- son, M. D., '92, to Miss Katherine Torpey; of plied the method to,his,surgicd pas^s., _,"}^'e. hpe ., Phila., at Buffalo, Feb. '25.

used the animal ligature,';' he .say,^, ■■for,.six. or ,. ' - °

11- ■,;,;.,;; o^.A':/.V1n^^''' Deaths:- Hamilton K: Derr, M. D., '81, at his sevai years; have used it m.many amputation^. ... ,

r ,, ' . ,' , •^.'- .- ■_ Y^ -■-'■home' in Hagerstown, Md., of heart disease, Feb.

of the limbs- and niarppia; li,a,^e..^9n.cetieft„ the ..,.„,„, , ,^ ^^ , , ,, ■

., .,, ^ 1 M- ' " . ■ t-u^'fl,-,^ '. 'iz; aged oO: ■ He was surgeon of the Western

carotids; once the external iliac; twice the .j^em- ,,' t , t^ -, -r^ , , , , , ^ .,

, r ^- xi r 1 4-1 \,^o<;„.;;^,- Marvland Rail Road and had been President of

oral; four times the radial; once the posterior - . ,r.r., ^^ r^ ,

.... ^. ^, ,■ 1 • „ •„ his county society, 1901-02. — Edivard Laivreiice

tibial; seven times the spermatic, .ancU in , no m-, ., -: . ^ ;. ^ ,/'

, , , /— Y f 1 ■"" &^'eyi-M. D:, '05, at his home. North . Wood-

stance have vv^e ever, had. second,ary, hemprrh.ag-e , ,,. , , ,T TT T-^ 10 , -.r. ^

, , ,. ^ y ,' Stock, -N.' H., 'Dec. 10, aged 30. — Georo-c W.

never have we had.a, ligatur^ .,sl.ip,;, hay;ej,n|ver _.. r^ .^n . ,• 1 n,

,r ^ ^ ■ ^■': Y ■ '■■•Daf-i^tSy.M.J}:, 69, at his home near Pleasant-

seen anything of our ligatures .aft,er the.ir^fap- ... t in , ^n r it/ c- ■ , ;

..,.,, , , , '• , .-■'ville, Md.,' Jan. 19, -aged 69. — lames W. Eichel-

phcation, often uiJeed , pur,, vvQjn'iqsJia^ve.l.ip.^Ied,.. ,, . "i.^ , ' f „,.,,_. -^t , , ^ . . , ,j.>. -.o,,ji.i - ■.j7«-Ke;v'M.' D.,- 70, at the Frederick Citv Hospi-

bv the first intention.. In AmBXit3,tipnj,v\[e :bgl|eve,^, , => r r> ■ i .> r^- ,'-7i tt

. ■.;,-" •='''tal',-Feb. '-23yof Bright s Disease, aged 71. He

that no ligature, will bear a:,cpn,ipariso)>.;With.jOne , . ,, . ° ' /=

. ., , ^ ,. , , , ;, - -^ r ■ ''-'was- a- son- of the late Jas. W. Eichelberger, M. ot soft buckskin, .of moderat.e^tl/vclsnesS; c).j]t,,from, ;,..,„,, -^ . -" • , . ,-

\, ,,■,', 1 ■ " ■U.,'^^/';- With whom he practiced in partnership the skm about, twice, as WJ4.e;fis^tn;ck,j and, .drawn.. ,,,-, ,.^ , ,,. , . ^

, , ; -'■-'■».' ■'<.:> - .'■ atEmn:4itsburg,-his hoane.

between the nails, and, iforehn^gr :sp;.jag,jtq,;.n|ake^.^

it more solid, but it :should.n^yer,lje,i?iad?.ffiund^^;, g^^ JOHN'S COLLEGE (DEPARTMENT this would cause It, to, e,tit,tb,e.cQ.ats,,j?ifi|c.Q^it,les5^,^^j^^,,,, ^^QFARTS AND SCIENCES). dissoluble, and more apt to,-slip,,Qff,.,all pf^.^vjiich:;. ^ The .Mandolin and Glee Clubs opened their we ascertained by. actuaj; experiropntf,','^ .u'/Thu.a, .^gason. hy furnishing the mtisical numbers at it will be seen," says Dr. Ma,rcy, "that.tpTtesick,, .jtn entertainment given at Carvel Hall by Miss of Phila., who first used.the ianim^l lig«?iurf;jjand ''LG,uise. W.illiams, of Georgia. Both clubs were to Jameson, of Baltimore, are,,du,e : thi%,,jnHpva- at their best and were generously applauded, tion in surgery, the practice Of which is. now in ■'.Tli'fe''Soph6more Class has elected its Rat- daily use on both. continents;. -,jW,e, triist;t.he,itime^ .Tat board for the coming year. W. R. Nelson is not far distant when, prop,er,hgnpr ,p^K,Jp,^ ac-j'^Will- be, Editor-in-Chief and R. R. Ritchie, Asst. credited to these two . gr^.at, ipien.-jejufl tJijpugh-TOjTiJil-or. , ' - ■r.':. • -, ' ' , •

them to American siirgery, .TJiey iairf ;t.la,q fQ,i,mda- ^Friday, March- 14th',; has been appointed for

tions for the introduction:and,y5e,:fflthe ?l?sorb^;;.,.j|ti|1|^^ifontest^o' select the St. Jbhn's repre-

able animal suture which r.Owiinjitly Jiol-ds a, firsts. ..-sfeftta^tiv'eih 'the Mal'ryland Peace Oratorical

place in modern aseptic snrgery..VE)r.,Marcy£alls;®%3S,¥est'o^o^l>e Intercollegiate Peace Associa-

Jameson "one of Baltimore's. gre.atest.m^n,;", "one tion, to be held in McCoy Hall, -on April 4th.

of the leading surgeons of the period," "a sin- Qn Monday,- Jan. 27th, a beautiful Senior

gularly clean surgeon,;' ^^^^^ , , ^ . ^ Class dance was held in the gymnasium. Mrs.

■ ~ ~"~° n.,;, ,.;i/ ',, vj, ■,, ■ ^Z lviairii!der,', wife of Judge D. R. Magrilider, of

Marriages: E.A. U. Fcdentirie, LL|,.^T, '94|';"-'tll'^.i$pard of Visitors and Governors, received

to Miss Elkins, of Phila.^,.at BaltinTOre, Vast' Fall;; '.;^fh^;iDK'^^ the Faculty. The third

■ Your Special Attention is directed to , , , , 'ipp of the Cotillion Club Series was given the

u,uidP,.c^re*c.'r ""''^'°'"Rlds"/r';??^^pL^^^^^^^^^^^ tolWifig Friday. Prof, and Mrs. Eidson re-

THOMAS & THOMPSON CO., ' Cciv-ed; - No iTiorc dauccs will be held till after

■iMi'nuf'rs'and'Dlspensersof Pure Medicines (Wholesale and Retail) " t , -n ;i i ot.i

Cor. Baltimore and Light Sts.,Baltimore,Md. Lent, Oil March Z/th.

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Commodore W. H. Beehler, U. S. N., ad-, dressed the Y. M. C. A., on Sunday," Feb."9th? The Commodore gave a very delightful recitar of his experiences as Naval Attache "at the. courts of Berlin, Vienna, and Ro'me. ■ '*' .''

The basketball team gives every promise ^of a successful season. At this time (lefeat has been sustained only once in seveii games.' By^' defeating Loyola, St. John's has "tight6rieci its^' grip upon the state championship. ''''^

Under the direction of th'e^ University' Ex- tension Department, the annual course 'of f?25 tures on the Mondays of Lent ha^° beeii' af-' ranged. On Monday, Feb: 8th?-Mr.'' Heri'ry"'j:' Hatfield opened the series with a' costume?r interpretation, entitled "The Humor and Mys- tery of the East and West, o"r tvipling,''^he Singer of His Clan." Mr. Hatfield' iriti^t-'sper'sed- hiis recitations with a discussion of thfe merits' of Kipling, his qualit'i'es as man and' poet," kiiia his critics. The next lecture wilf'be delivere'd by -Dr/ F. D. Hamlin, Professor 6'f A'rchitec- ture, Columbia University, updii the Subject of "Old World Gardens,' Ancient' afid Mo'3'effi!''

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DEPARTMENT OF DENTISTRY,' :>

Beginning with the second s'eriiester of "iW'e session of 1912-13, monthly assemblies have b'een arranged for in the Deiital DepaVtment.: " 'Tfie

Municipal Journal, delivered a lecture to the stu- deiit'botly of 'the Dental Department, his topic, being "LodKing Forward."

"M his disctissicn of the subject, Mr. Golds- borough' assiired his hearers that it was an erro- neous notion that young men were apt to get, cLpTlsuniing 'that greatness of attainment in any hilfe'^bf endeavor must and can come only as the r&slilf'8l speciaF'Sitd'-extrabrdinary talents. Such achievements, he ciaiitie'd, were only the normal devefdfiiTien't 'of the avei'age man, who happened to-'l5'e possessed with vision backed up with a p'u'i-'pd'sfe to' acco'riiplish big things in life, these bei'rig 'the^'qlialities which enable men to rise in tlie'^'scSre'' CT estimation and honor in the com- munit)'.' '■ ''■''■■ ....,■■

Th'6 iritensity of his presentation of , the sub- ject, '^dt?p'ted' with a charm of voice and eloquent cra'fdfic;al'"p'owers, iield' the enti're student body ill 'r'a'pt atteiitidh' throughout the hour. The logic emljdffled' 'in his' statements and the hopefulness of the fAes'sage brought, served to give fresh in- EpiVationV^Ahd at' a' time when the students were sp'e8iall"y;pre'paredtd receive it.

'S'tififo'lk', "Va., ' Jan! 2'2.— Dr. Lynvvood Carr Holl'and, age 31 yearfe old, "^ who was elected from tlVd^'S&ond wa'rd toi succeed Col. J. H. Macleary as Councilman last 'Thilfsdav night, is Suffolk's yotm^'eSt ' Couh'cilhian at present. Dr. Holland way'bdrif in' SliffdlW'tind now resides in Hall's

purpose_ is to get all the ' matriculates tog'efher Cres'deht. '''He'is' one 'of Suffolk'*s most popular

to listen to a populr talk to be delivered' e'^fil month by some man of ability and reputation Yn our city. By such a plan^ it is hoped' to"show the students that we have an interest * m ' thei'r V/elfare and pleasure outside the' regular' course work, and, at the same tiine, attract the atte'il- tion of,the public to our institu'tion and ifs'serv- ice in the community.

Ou the morning of Februaey •^S.ili^ioj.-'A. S. Goldsborough, Esq., Secretary to the. TFa,qt|0ry Site Commission and Managing! lulitor . of ..th-e

Intercollegiate Bureau of Academi5'Costurhel', Albany; i^,':'V ?'"''''■"''■""'' "'^^'"^' COTRELL CAPS

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yoiing 'deiitistsi 'graduating from the University of Maryland in 19d4; since which time he has practi'c'^U'iii" Suffolk. ''During his three years at colle|;-e 'ih''MaH'land he was a prize winner each year.' He'is'tfie son of the Ikte Granville S. P. Holland, who' sei^ve'd 14 years as one of the City Fathers.

I'.

'■"Dr. 'Holland was niarfied six years ago to Miss

E'otd E.' Barrett,' of Franklin, \'a. He says he conscientiously stands for these things which will tbWr'to 'the Aipbuildihg,^ growth and prosperity of hiS city'", and fdt-' 'conditions best for the general ']/ubTiF. 'THe' c|fialified' Monday and will tomorrow -''fl?ght''F^ve'-1iis'seai"for the first time. His term e.xpii'es September'' next. — Norfolk Ledger-Dis-

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' *;t."'l'"'. ]\I.' Keighle)',' cla'ss of 1912, paid a recent yisit to his'"alhfa"nTatel", '^Hij-informs us that be-

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ginning with January 1st, he has given, up prac- iice and is now representing the well-known Col- gate Company in their dental specialty line. Tlie territory of his operations comprises the New England States.

Charles L. Snively, class of 1905, for several years past in practice in Newark, N. J., is now at the University Hospital, recovering from an operation, for acute appendicitis.

B. F. Copp, class of 1895, for many years lo- cated in Silver City, New Mexico, made a short visit to the Dean, who is his classmate, during the early part of February. Dr. Copp is con- templating' the organization of a development company which shall operate along the lines as planned by the National Government for forest preservation. His plans call for interesting the government, with his company, in developing a peak of the Massanutton Mountain, near Stras- burg, ,Va. . He hopes to bring his family east to live, if his scheme materializes successfully.

Dr. W. A. Rea, Chief Demonstrator of the Infirmary, spent several days during the latter part of January in Pittsburgh, Pa., as the represent- ative of the Dental Department of the Univer- sity of Maryland at a meeting of the National Institute of Dental Pedagogics.

The three local chapters of the Xi Psi Phi Fraternity gave their annual reception and dance at Lehmann's Hall, Feb. 21. Flags and emblems were abundant. An orchestra played and sup- per was served from 11 to 12. About 70 guests were present. The following constituted the Com. of Arrangements: J. F. Thompson, A. H. Lepine, R. A. Bideau, H. W. Dorelus, D. D. Casto, G. A. Lynch, R. W. Brockett, W. L, Kib- ler and W. T. Wright, Jr.

The work is moving on in the usual good way. Our midwinter examinations have begun in all classes.

It is quite interesting to note the enthusiasm existing in the Infirmary, especially in the Se- nior class. Everyone is trying to complete his work and be ready for the final rollcall, and from what I have heard, and judging from the work,

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the class of 1913 will be the largest in the his- tory of the Dental Dept.

We are glad to have Dr. Davis with us again, after several weeks" of illness, and we trust he will be able to be with us at every lecture.

Dr. Robert Ellington, a member of the class of 1912, was a welcome visitor on the campus last week. "Bob" is located in Salisbury, N. C, and is meetingf with big success.

It gives me pleasure to state that Mr. Fitz-. gerald, a member of the Senior class, is improv- ing very rapidly from the attack of pneumonia. Hurry up and get well, "Fitz," for we need you back with us.

In writing this report, I am compelled to make mention of the good work going on in our dept , namely that of Dr. Patterson in plate work. He has so handled the situation that he succeeds in having" every Senior make a die and counter- die for his plate. The all-round work that has been done by Dr. Patterson is to be commended, and we join hands with him in establishing a greater dental dept. of U. of M.

Another thought that impressed me in regard to building up our dept. was expressed in one of Dr. Hopkinson's lectures, when he said he hoped that the Senior class would organize Alumni Associations and contribute annually to the permanent LTniversity Fund, for the school which lives and prospers must have an endow- ment. Let us, as Seniors, get together and con- sider this.

The Junior class held its annual banquet Feb. 19 in the Y. M. C. A. Dining Hall. Prof. Heat- wole was toastmaster and speeches were made by niimbers of the Faculty and class. A Dental Dormitory was generally advocated.

W. E. M.

DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACY.

Dr. Plitt is quizzing the juniors on Materia Medica. Dr. Kelly has started a class on prac- tical chemistry for the medical students. The senior histology began Friday morning, February 7, under Dr. Base.

The members of the class book committee are as busy as bees working on grinds, rhymes, etc. This year's book promises to be the best yet.

The prescription work in the pharmacy lab- oratory is a great pleasure as well as benefit to

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all the seniors and it recalls cheerfully the shades of former package wrapping days of the junior class. Dr. Hynson lectures on many and varied prescriptions, after which the students proceed to the labdratory and' work on the most impor- tant.

In the examination on "Commercial Phar- macy" Professor Hynson laid great stress on this question in bookkeeping: "On Jan. 1 A. B.Camp- bell, Jr., pharmacist at Camden, S. C, was in- debted to H. O. Sale and Co., Balto., to the amount of $1750.00. He borrowed $1000.00 on his note, at twelve months, from his father and paid this to H. O. Sale & Co. on accoimt by cheeky. He returned for credit 4 doz. Hoff's Malt at $3.00, 1 doz. fruit juices for soda water syrups at $7.50 pet doz. and 500 cigars at $35.00 per M7" Write to H. O. Sale & Co. for Camp- bell, who promises to pay them the balance by hdnoring a 3-day sight draft. Make all neces- sary entries on Campbell, Jr.'s, books and draw required papers. Omit the journal entries."

It may interest the readers of this department to see Professor Caspari's examination of the senior class, in Pharmacy, held on Jan. 31. It was as' follows :

"I: How is Fluid extract of Conium made; what is the strength of the finished product and h6wis this determined?

.,"2. What is the official title of the so-called Tasteless Fluid extract of Cascara ; what is its composition and how is it made?

"3. How are the fluid extracts of Licorice, S'enega and Squill made?

"4. What are the U. S. P. requirements for the following extracts: (a) Belladonna Leaves; (b) Calabar Bean; (c) Ergot; (d) Euonymus ; (e) Nux Vomica;, (f) Cascara Sagrada; (g) Quassia; (h) Opium; (i) Stramonium; (k) Henbane ; also state the consistence of each ?

"5. Name the official Oleoresins and average yield of each ; also state mode of preparation.

"6. What is the official title of White Precipi- tate and how is this compound made?

"7. How is Chromium Trioxide made? What

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degree of purity is officiallv demanded and how is this determined?

"8. What is the official title (Latin) of Chlorine Water ; how is this liquid made and what is its strength ?

"9. What is the difference between Donovan's, Fowler's and Pearson's Solution ; how is each made and what is its strength ?

"10. How is Tincture of Chloride of Iron made ; how should it be preserved and why ? What is the official requirement of strength and how is this determined?"

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CORRESPONDENCE.

Professor Eugene Cordell, Sir,

As I know that you take great interest and care in the Library of our University, I am sending you three copies of my little book which I made on "The Care of Nursing In- fants."

The preface you will find interesting. It tells about the superstitions and habits of the poor Egyptian mothers and how they apply these habits on their children. For instance, a mother will never wash her child with water whose father was a syphilitic, until a certain age, when the child could recognize the water by himself. Believing that the child will ac- quire the disease from his father through the water.

So I hope you will accept those three copies which may be of interest, although they are written in Arabic.

My best wishes to my old friends and Class- mates. Yours sincerely,

N. KENAWY, M. D., '05.

(Our deep thanks are returned to Dr, Ken- awy for his work, which has been added to the library, as he requests. It forms a neat and interesting little volume of 78 pages. Unfor- tunately, ignorance of the Arabic prevents our becoming acquainted with its contents. — Ed.)

Harry J. Buch, the socialist, who beat Dr. Thomas B. Johnson while in his automobile at Frederick, some weeks ago, was found guilty by a jury, Feb. ,25, and fined $100 and costs. B., who was released under $300 bail, has taken an

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UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND. BALTO.. MD.

HON. PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, .Governor o^^Iaryland,, Chancellor.

ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, Annapolis, Md. { ^^^^^TJ^'^i^i'^Sks) - ''^ " " -

Founded 1696. Classical and Scientific College Courses leading to degrees. Special advantages, to .studej!rt.si:: purposing to study the professions. Military Department under army officer. Also Preparatorys School ior^boys,:. fitting for St. John's or other colleges. Term begins September 21. ■! Address 'vjvv ' •• ^ i, .;-;; - .

. . THOMAS FELL, Ph. D., LL. D., D. C. L., President.

DEPARTMENT of MEDICINE

Four years' graded course. New Laboratory Build- ing. Clinical advantages unsurpassed. Teaching Staff' of 66. 107th Annual Session will begin October 1, 1912, and continue 8 months.

R. DORSET COALB, Ph.D., Dean.

DEPARTMENT of DENTISTRY

33d Annual Session begins October 1, 1913, and continues 7 months. 36._ Instructors; New Building. For catalogue containing course of study, etc., apply to TIMOTHY O. HEATWOLE, M. D., D. D. S., Dean,

Baltimore. Md.

DEPARTMENT of I^AW 'naun.u,,.- .;- ..,

44th Annual Session beginS'Sept. 23, 1912; ^ Faculty.

of 12." S-For cafalbgue eontfl,inirgff.ull;4nfQrmdtjoni.addrewi

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DEPARTMENT, of PHy^RMACY' "".

(Formerly Maryland College of Pharmacy.) 70th Annual Session begins September 25, 1913. llTnStruc tors. ' New' LabortitorieS; 'Address -i ^ ^ f

CHARLES CASPARI, JR., Phar.D., Dean,. ( ••: s.. „ , Balthnore. Md.

appeal. — Mr. Wm. L. jMarbury, '82, has an- nounced his candidacy for the long-term Mary- land senatorship and is said to be backed by -P're's- ident Wilson. — Dr. George Walker, '88, has been selected by Governor Goldsborough as the chair- man of the State-Wide Vice Commission recent- ly appointed by him.— Drs.' Cc'ale' arid Winslow' spent several days during the week, Feb. 24'-'29 in' Chicago, in attendance on the' meeting of the Asso. of Amer. Med. Colleges.^^University Hos- pital had 218 patient inmates on Dec. 31', '20 of whom were in the Maternite D'ept.

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Some Recent Additions to the. Library of Medicine : Proc. Am. Pharrii. Asso., 1912 ; Kept. Surg. Gen'l U. S. A., 1912';- Heredity, R. Clement Lucas, 1912; Trans. Am. Laryng. ' Asso., 19T2 : La Met'node Guelpha ( Desiritoxication de rOrganisme). Par le Dr. O. Jennings, 1913; Trans. Am. Otolcg. Soc, 1912; Comp. of His- tology, H. E. Radasch, 1912; Psychology of In-- sanitv, Bernard Hart, 1912; Ophthalmology, PaulRoemer, Vol. 1, 2, 3, 1912-13';. Lideji" Cat. Surg. Gen.- Office, Vol. XVH, 1912 ; Medical Men and the Law.'H. E. Culbertson,- 1913; "The Labyrinth, B'aun & ' Friesnef , 1913; Internat. Clinics, Vol. IV, 22d Ser., 1912 ; Vaccine Ther- apy, R. W. Allen, 1913; Kept, of Pellagra Com- mission of 111., 1912 ; Catalogue Optical and Gen'l Scientific Instruments, 1912; Care of In-

sane and Hosp. Managempnt,' C.-W.-PagC; 1912;' Nursingy . Isabel' Hariipton, 1908 ;..;Care , cvf nNu-^s,- ing Infants,- '.N.' Kena\^y;f- 1942; .Psychai^talysift, A. A. Brill, 1913 ;, Diseasesjof Hea,rtiand,Aort3, A.. D. Hirschffelder, ; l:S,I3s- GWotide j^jf .Lipie ; in. Sanitation, nA. Hi ■■ Hooker.,, > 1913 > - NapoleonJs Campaign in Russia' Anno- lSi2, A. Rose, 1913; Uncomplicated Pregn.ancy and Labar,,:F.- Elling- wood, Chicago, 1912; Modern Materia Medica by Druggists' Circular, 1912 ; Hygiene. of Nurs- ing, L. s'tarr, 1913. ■ , . ..

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We are indebted to Hon. Henry. Stockbridge for three interesting documents relating tQ the LTniversity, viz; 1, "Documents; Addressed to the Board of Trustees of the- -Uniyprsity of Mary- land, by Richard Harlan, M..D., of Pbila., March 6, 1830,". Dr. H. having been .a;;c^ndi.d.ate^|f9^ the Chairo-f Anatomy or S-argery.hei'e -in Axig; 1827; 2, Address to thei Students; of ;the University on the Subject of Private Class<esiife,yi Prefiessqr^s, .Qct. 4, 1824 ( forbidding-..- them-)?;, _3, -Gatalpgue, , p.f Splendid Library and Philosophical^ , Chemical and Astroncmieal -.Apparatus. ..of the-^Uate.jDr. William Howard, '<tO; te sOld- .-at ,- Auction Com- mencing Dec..--'10,i,l,§34:-(Dr.r'H:, son :of;John •Jiflger Howard; graduated in 1817, wjas Adjunct Professor^to'Daviclge, 1820-21^ 'and later P'fb- fessor'cif '"Natural Philosophy 'in the Acadernic Department)j;«-.^;'. .:-;■.-:■'?'*;;--! ^- O' ■■ -

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ROBERT WOOFFINDALE, AN EARLY AMERICAN DENTIST.

In the Dental Intelligencer for September, 1848, is a sketch of Robert ]Voojfindale, who is pronounced the first regular H'^tital practitioner in this country. The facts are taken from a lec- ture on the history of the dental profession in the United States, delivered by Dr. C. O. Cone be- fore the class of the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery. He was the eldest son of his parents, and was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, in the year 1742. His youth was passed at Shef- field, where be received a good education. At the age of 20 he went to London and entered the shop of White and Gipps, apothecaries, where he remained three years, obtaining a practical knowl- edge of the drug business. While thus engaged he often came in contact with Mr. Thomas Bird- more, a well-educated gentlem?n, who held the honorable position of dentist to the King. This gentleman was at this time preparing a treatise on dentistry, which was published in 1770, a work of considerable merit.

Such association led to the adoption of the dental profession by Wooffindale, who became a pupil of Birdmore in 1765. Before entering upon his service, he was rec|uired to execute a bond for £500 sterling, not to practice his pro- fession in London or within fifty miles of it during the life of his preceptor. His student life lasted not Cjuite twelve months.

In the summer of 1766 he left London and went to Sheffield, where he disposed of some real estate which he had inherited through the death of his father, and on the 14th of September following he sailed from Falmouth for New York in search of a location for the practice of his profession. He arrived in New York on Oc- tober 30 and remained there about five months.

He then spent four months in Philadelphia. His success so far had not been g- eat, although he made a favorable impression on a few who had employed him. On his return to New York, however, he had an opportunity to display his skill, being employed to construct a double set of artificial teeth from the ivory of the hippopota- mus. His work was in the highest degree satis- factory and was considered a wonderful produc- tion of genius.

Plis success led to his marriage with the niece and adopted daughter of his patient, which took place on September 17,. 1767.

Mr. Wooffindale was the first dentist in the cities of New York and Philadelphia and the only one in America with one exception, Mr. , Greenwood, who was wholly unknown outside of Boston, where he resided. Nevertheless, owing to the sparseness of the population, the novelty of the calling and the limited demand for his ser- vices, he determined to return to England. Ac- cordingly, on March 25, 1768, he embarked for Bristol, accompanied by his young wife.

He again took up his residence at Sheffield, opening an apothecary shop and practicing den- tistry when patients applied for his services. In 1775, having disposed of his property in Shef- field, he removed with his family, consisting of his wife and five children, to Liverpool, and de- voted his attention exclusively to his profession of dentist.

He resided at Liverpool for fourteen years, making occasional professional ^'isits to York and Manchester. During this ppr'od he wrote a work entitled "Practical Observations on the Hu- man Teeth," which was published in London in 1783, and which was superior to anything of the kind in the English language to that date', except Birdmore's Treatise. He also carved a double set

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of teeth, which, with a tooth extracted by him from the mouth of George IV, are preserved in the college museum.

Li 1789, Mr. Birdmore died, ivhich absolved him from his bond, and he visited London. He found such encouragement there and such in- ducements offered by the former patrons of Mr. Birdmore, that he determined to locate in the metropolis. Accordingly he rent'^d a fashionable house in Dover street, Piccadilly, near St. James street and the King's Palace, and removed his family thither.

His professional success in London was un- paralleled. He enjoyed the favor and patronage of the most fashionable circles and had tendered him through Lord Southampton the post of den- tist to the Prince of Wales, which honor he de- clined.

Twenty-five years had now passed since he had left America with his young bride and she longed to return to the scenes of her early life. He determined to gratify her, and on the 25th day of July, 1793, he placed her and her eight children on board the ship "Factor" bound for New York. They reached their destination dur- ing the following September and shortly after removed to a farm about fourteen miles from New York, near the town of Jamaica, Long Island, which had been rented by the oldest son, John.

Mr. Wooffingdale remained in London about a year after the departure of his family, engaged in closing his business there preparatory to join- ing them in America, which he did in 1795. Soon after arrival, he opened an office in New York City and commenced practice. After two years he resigned his patients to the care of his oldest son and retired to his farm, where he died on the 3d of October, 1828, in his 86th year.

Says the writer from whom we quote : "He was amiable in character with an energetic mind and ingenious tact, which often lent him valu- able aid in the constructive department of his profession, but it does not appear that he made

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any marked improvement or discovery in any department of it. His published work evinced anatomical knowledge and that his practice was guided by physiological deductions. His high, honorable tone and professional liberality will be as well shown, together with the fact that the profession at that time at least in England, was principally confined to mechanical qualities de- pendent on secret knowledge and empirical prac- tices, by the following sentence taken from the preface of his work : T am aware that, by mak- ing public the various circumstances relating to the teeth and the operations to be performed on them, and exposing some of the impositions and deceptions too often used, I shall draw upon my- self the malevolence of ignorant pretenders to the dentist's art. To these I have nothing to say. Men of that profession of liberal minds will not want an apology for exposing the various means used for imposture in the profession, as it ap- pears the most likely method of fixing it on a more solid and liberal foundation than has yet been done.' "

It may safely be affirmed that Mr, Wooffindale was one of the best practical dentists, if not the best, of his day, and he was so esteemed by those of his contemporaries who were best qualified to judge of his merits.

EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS OF CADET GEORGE WASHINGTON TURNER, AT WEST POINT, TO FRIENDS IN VIR- GINIA, 1829-31.

(Continued from p. 19.)

August i8th, 1830, to his father. He has just returned from a four-weeks trip by stage and canal through New York. "I left here on the 15th ulto with about $115 in my pocket and with- out company. The weather was excessively warm. My first step was to purchase at the Bar of the Boat a little book, which I found exceed- ingly useful afterwards, entitled 'Guide to the Traveler through the Southern, Middle and East- ern States and Canada.' This book points out everything worthy of note on almost any route you can take, gives an accurate description of it and its history, thereby placing the solitary trav- eler who is for the first time on the road on an equality with the old resident.

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"I found the passage up the Hudson dehght- ful — the shores studded with handsome and flourishing towns and the scenery the finest I had ever seen. On the boat were Secretary Van Bu- ren and his two sons. I left the boat at the vil- lage of Catskill, about forty miles from here and proceeded at once in a stage which I found wait- ing to the celebrated Catskill Mountain House, or as it is frec^uently called, The Pine Orchard, where I spent the night. It is distant from the village about twelve miles over a very rough road up the mountain. The attractions of this place are the splendid view, extending in several direc- tions and comprising cities, towns, villages, lakes and rivers, and a waterfall of about 270 feet, called the Canterskill Falls.

"On a little platform or lawn nearly at the top of an elevated peak of the mountains stands a very elegant and most delightful public house. The solitude and dreariness of the surroundings renders this habitation very striking to a stran- ger. From here one may look upon the clouds, lightning and rain far below, while all above and around is calm.

"I reached the house late at night and visited the Falls the next morning after breakfast. They are strikingly beautiful. After dinner I took a carriage for the village, where I arrived in time for the steamboat North America, which con- veyed me to Albany to supper. On the way I met a man no years old, who related his expe- rience in the old French War.

"The next day being Sunday, I embraced the opportunity of being present at a meeting of those singular people, the Shakers, who have a ,settlement of about forty men and women called Niskayuna, eight miles from Albany. I pro- cured a horse and rode out after breakfast. It was very amusing. I did not comprehend a word they said, and such singing and dancing — you can have no idea of it until you see it. Most of them were old and looked fanatical. How- ever, no doubt they mean well.

"Returning to Albany to dinner, I set out in the cool of the evening for the widely celebrated

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Saratoga and reached there late at night. The distance is about 36 miles and part of the road is bad. I had the pleasure of traveling over the splendid macadamized road between Albany and Troy, which cost about $16,000 per mile. I found Saratoga crowded, hot, dusty and dis- agreeable and determined to get away as soon as possible. The following day I had the pleasure to meet an old friend and fellow-cadet, who grad- uated last June — Lieutenant Prentiss, who in- formed me that he was traveling with his mother and that they would leave Saratoga that day on the western route, for the falls, etc. Learn- ing that I was going in the same direction, he invited me to travel in their company, an invita- tion which I accepted with much pleasure. He introduced me to his mother, whom I found a most sensible, intelligent and agreeable lady. We set out for Schenectady the same evening, where we arrived just in time for the canal-boat. We proceeded on the great canal as far' as Utica, where we arrived the following evening, having passed over locks and aqueducts and many other — to me — wonderful things. Utica is quite a handsome town, with some fine buildings and full of bustle and business.

"On the day after our arrival we set out very early in the morning for Trenton Falls, distant about 16 miles, which we reached to breakfast. We spent the day viewing the Falls, returning to Utica in the evening. I cannot pretend to de- scribe the former or my sensations in seeing them. Those on the Catskill dwindled to insig- nificance in comparison, for though their height was much greater, the body of water was much less. For wildness and grandeur the scenery of Trenton Falls far exceeds anything I have seen elsewhere on my journey, with the single excep- tion of Niagara Falls. The fall is over what is called West Canada Creek. The water-level makes a descent of 387 feet in five miles by a series of falls and chutes, none of which exceed 40 feet. At the Falls there was a very good hotel and we met several parties like ourselves traveling for health and curiosity. A nielan- ;:holy event occurred here a few years ago : a Miss Suydam, of New York, who was on a visit here with her father, brother and lover, to whom she was to be married in a short time, fell in the water and was drowned.

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"Li Utica we found that greatest of comforts for dusty travelers — a delightful bath.

"Next morning we left Utica at 4 A. M., and after an excessively fatiguing and disagreeable stage ride of 75 miles, arrived at Auburn at 11 P. M." The letter concludes with an expression of admiration of the splendid stone aqueduct bridge over the Mohawk, at Little Falls, and a promise to continue the description of his trip in his next letter. He mentions also the arrival of "Henry," who, as I suppose, was his cousin, the late Major Henry S. Turner, U. S. A., of St. Louis.

Sept. 13, 1830, to his father: "I ha\e desired very much indeed for some time past a sufficient leisure to write to you and my other correspond- ents, to many of whom I have been some time indebted, but our time has been so much em- ployed since coming into Barracks, as to have prevented it. I seize this morning, before break- fast, a little time — I cannot call it leisure, because it is the time which I am in the habit of devoting to the review of my lesson — to write you rather a note than a letter. I have been particularly anxious to write to you, my dearest Papa, be- cause I know that your extreme solicitude for my welfare might render you uneasy if I delayed it longer. I wished, moreover, to congratulate you on the fine crop which I have been told you have made this year, and on the good health which you ha\e enjoyed since your return from the Springs.

"With my best love to Mamma" (this was his stepmother) "tell her that Mr. Chevalier was here a few days ago (on the gth inst.) in much better health than he had enjoyed for some time. As the weather was so wet during his stay as to prevent our parading, he talked of returning again in the course of a few days. He desired me to remember him very particularly to the family at Wheatland when I wrote.

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"I must defer a continuation of the descrip- tion of my route to the west and north for the present, both from a want of time and because I think that you would prefer an account of the nature of our studies. They are divided between the civil and the military. We have commenced a course of belles lettres which will be continued throughout the year, comprising Murray's large Grammar, Blair, Paley and Kent's Commen- taries. We are also studying the Science of Fortification, which will be succeeded by that of Civil Engineering after January. AVe are engaged with a course of Artillery Tactics, upon finishing \\'hich we will take up Lifantry Tactics; We will also study Mineralogy during the course of the year, but the ill health of our Professor has pre- \ented our commencing it yet. Our course of En- gineering will comprise a great deal of right line drawing throughout the year, of Forts, etc., before January and of the orders of Architecture, etc., afterwards. (3ur course is long this year and will require almost all our time. But, though there is a great deal to be learned from it, it does not require that intense application which must be given to the knots of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy.

"Our Professor of Engineering, Mr. Mahan, is from Virginia. He graduated first in his class and is in the Corps of Engineers. For the last four years he has been a student at the School of Metz, France, where I understand he grad- uated with considerable distinction. He has just returned to this country and I consider our class as peculiarly fortunate in possessing the services of so able and withall so agreeable an instructor. Give my best love to the family and believe me my dearest father, most truly your aiTectionate son. Next year I shall be with you again. P. S. Poor but glorious France. Pier troubles, I hope, have ended."

Dec. 8 1830, to his sister Christine, who asks his advice about her reading.

While regretting his inability to give useful advice from his own experience, he suggests that she "read seriously and attentively the Bible. A portion read each day carefully and in a proper spirit will furnish you with a most devoted sub- ject of medidation, the most important upon which a human being can reflect, will enlighten you on the history of a very interesting period —

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the first ages of the world, will present you with by far the best code of morals which has ever been displayed to the human family, will lead you to reflect on the everyday practical duties of life and will teach you the inducements to act rightly. According to the finest writers in the English language — Burke, Blair and others — it will moreover exhibit to you the finest speci- mens of the sublime, the elegant and the tender in composition. The poetry of the Psalms, Isaiah and other parts of the Bible is unsurpassed in our language. But why need I say more? You, my dear Sister, as well as 1, know it to be a duty. I will merely add further, that the reading of the Scriptures will naturally lead you to the perusal of other books connected with the subject — for explanation, etc. — both interesting and useful. I should think it advisable to con- verse with those more advanced than yourself in the study of them on those parts which you find it difficult to comprehend."

"Ne.xt, avoid novels — particularly such as are of a light and trifling nature. They dissipate the mind and give a distaste for what is substantial and of more importance. One of Scott's migh.t probably be read occasionally as a relaxation. Read history and literary works, such as The Spectator, The Rambler, etc. You would find some of Shakespeare's plays are both instructive and pleasing. Read good poetry — you would like Milton. I believe there are several very excel- lent works in the Library at Wheatland — both historical and poetical. You will find some vol- umes of letters there too, which would please you ; Lyttleton's letters are elegantly written.

"There are few stibjects of more importance, my dear Chrissy, at our age, than the improve- ment of the mind. We shall never regret it, but it will, on the contrary, prove an inexhaustible source of pleasure.

"As you know, I am coming home in all prob- ability next year and you must make interest for me with some of those girls there and my old acquaintances. Miss Philippa is not at Wheat- land just now, I believe. Where is Mary? ITow

.Menu. Kiinquet nncl Dnnce Card.s. Oominenceiiicnt Invitn- tions ami r'i-oy:rains, Diplomas, Certiticates. Eii^n-ossin^', V. of M. Stationery for Classos and Fratprniti(>s. Letlci- Heads, Knvelnpes, I'ai'ds, etc.. for I'liysicians. l,aw>'ers and I^entisls.

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much would I give to see her. I have not seen her and have scarcely heard of her for four or five years. But I recollect her zvell. She was always a sweet charming girl. Hal too, I long to see again. Give my love to any of them that you may happen to see or write to. Farewell, dear child. P. S. Until has but one 1."

ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE (DEPARTMENT OF ARTS AND SCIENCES).

The battalion is now reorganized upon a basis of two companies, instead of three as hitherto. Capt. Fell of Co. "A," and Capt. Fitzgerald of Co. "B," retain their commands. Capt. Gering, formerly of Co. "C," is transferred to the staft' with the rank of 1st Lieut. Battalion Adjutant. It is thought that the new arrangement will add to the appearance and increase the efficiency of the battalion.

On Monday, March 17th, the last of the series of University Extension lectures was delivered by Mr. Amos W. Woodcock, S. J. C. '04, sec- retary to U. S. Senator Jackson. Mr. Wood- cock discussed the Permanent Court of Arbitra- tion at the Hague, and the actual arbitration accomplished there. He spoke without notes and displayed a remarkable mastery of the de- tails of his intricate subject. The course of lec- tures proved a decided success and has afforded general satisfaction. The other lecturers were Mr. Hamilton Holt, Managing Editor of The Independent, New York City ; Dr. Edwin D. Mead, Director of the World Peace Foundation, Boston, Mass. ; Major Carl Reichman of the General Staft", U. S. A., and Dr. Hamlin, Pro- fessor of Architecture, Columbia University.

St. John's closed the past basket-ball season with an enviable record. Besides winning the undisputed championship of Maryland, her quin- tet earned a very high position in the South- .\tlantic Championship. The Orange and Bla,-k drew the long end in ten of the twelve contests, being defeated only by the Navy and Catholic University — and then only after stift' fights on unfamiliar courts. St. John's scored a total of 495 points during the season, while the oppo- nents totaled 238. Frank H. Thompson has been elected captain for next year. Thompson is a native of Annapolis, Md. He played right guard'

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on the basket-ball team for the past season. Besides this, he has proven a game plucky ath- lete in other lines, having held down center field in base-ball last year, and having won his S. ) C. and star in football.

Capt. Noble is rounding out his base-ball ma- terial satisfactorily. All the members of last season's nine are out again this year, except Heightman and Tolson, who will be greatly missed on the pitching staff.

Alumni Notes : — Rev. Dr. Forest J. Pretty- man, a member of the class of 1882, has been chosen chaplain of the United States Senate for the coming 63rd Congress. — The class of 1910 is laying plans for a class reunion. Upon the committee on arrangements are H. C. Ruhl, Clark F. Brown, Roscoe E. Grove, Peter Zouck, and H. E. Wilson. — William C. Devecmon, a graduate of St. John's College, is being supported by the Maryland delegation in Congress for ap- pointment as Judge of the Fourth United States Judicial Circuit. C. M.

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DEPARTMENT OF DENTISTRY.

Dr. F. F. Drew. Secretary of the Maryland State Board of Dental Examiners, called on Dean Heatwole early in the month of March and requested the use of our college buildings and equipment for the purpose of examining the spring applicants for licenses to practice dentistry in Maryland. Permission to use our plant was granted and the dates set for the examinations are May 29 and 30. ^

Through application forms received from the State of North Carolina on the request of mem- bers of the senior class, we learn that the Board for that state will meet on May 26, 27, and 28.

Drs. W. C. Shirley, 1904, and W. B. Fahrney, 1898, both members of the famous Stonewall Band of Staunton, Va., which musical organiza- tion headed the military schools from the Old Dominion in the line of march at the inaugura- tion of President Woodrow Wilson, on March

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4. after breaking ranks, made a short visit to Baltimore and their alma mater. Dr. J. E. Mo- lony, of South Carolina, uncle of Mike Groves, Junior, also utilized the inauguration occasion to pay us a visit. Dr. Molony graduated with the class of 1889, and has since been in active prac- tice in his native state.

Other graduates who called to see us since the last issue are the following :

Dr. S. M. Byers, 1894; Dr. H. A. Folsom, 1911; Dr. Rhodes Burrows, 1911; Dr. J. H. Ilamer, Jr., 1903, Dr. Bates Etchison, 1905.

Through a clipping from the New Britain (Conn.) Daily we are advised of the death of Dr. Frederick E. Monks, 1908. Dr. Monks was a brother of Dr. Georgianna Monks, who grad- uated in 1909 with first honors. They were for several years associated together in practice in New Britain. The brother, on account of ill health, was oblicred to .-ibandon practice about one year ago. His death, which took place on March 6, was due to diabetes.

Charles L. Meade, D. D., pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, addressed the stu- dent body of the Dental Department, on March 12, his topic being "Honest Purpose." By his direct and masterl}' presentation of the subject, Dr. Meade made a strong impression on the members of the several classes and all rejoice in the privilege had of listening to this popular speaker. Increasing interest is being manifested in these monthly gatherings, as is being made evident through expressions of approval on the part of students and the earnest attention ac- corded at such times.

At the instigation of Rev. K. G. Murray, pas- tor of Fayette Street Methodist Church, who made all the necessary arrangements and per- sonally conducted the affair, students of the Den- tal and other Departments of the University made a pilgrimage to the ancient city of Annapo- lis on Saturday afternoon, March 15. Special cars were provided by the W. B. & A. Railway Company.

The citizens of Annapolis were apprised of our arrival through proclamation of the Uni- •\-ersity yell, which was given with spirit and hearty unison. We were met at the station and escorted to the Executive Mansion by Mr. De Vries, the Governor's private secretary. The

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freedom of -the mansion was extended b)' the Governor and the boys made good use of the opportunity to explore the same from cellar to garret, after which an elaborate luncheon was served by Mrs. Goldsborough, wife of the Gov- ernor. After thanking the host and hostess and before leaving the mansion grovuxls, the college yell was again given, supplemented this time with "Long live the Governor." The State House, Naval Academy and .St. John's College were then visited in turn. At the Academy, Captain Gibbons detailed Lieutenant Castleman and six midshipmen to act as an escort through the grounds and buildings.

The folowing sections were represented in the party : — Cuba, the Philippines, Pennsylvania, Maine, Virginia, New Jersey, Massachusett.s, West Virginia, Connecticut and South Carolina. Dr. Murray, through his untiring energy in plan- ning and carrying out the scheme and his s]iecial good cjualities of comradeship, has endeared him- self anew to the students of the University. Much credit is due him and words fail to ex- press our appreciation of his thoughtfulness and generotis attention.

A fine life-size photograph of the late Pro- fessor James PL Harris, the gift of his daugh- ter— Mrs. John B. Thomas, has been hung in Harris Hall. It is by llgenfritz, of 319 North Charles St. and is not only a great work of art but a speaking reproduction of this genial gentleman and unexcelled dental operator. His many friends and pupils are cordialh' in\ited to visit the hall and again look upon the features of one whom all so loved and revered, here so vividly brought back to their gaze.

Among those who attended the inauguration in Washington were Dr. Valentine and Messrs. O'Brien, Summerfield and Mitchell. ( The Asso- ciate Editor of this Department acknowledges his great indebtedness to Dean Heatwole for the preparation of these notes). W. E. M.

HISTORICAL NOTES,

Professor William Power, who filled Prof. Elisha Bartlett's chair of practice in the Uni- versity, B. being unavoidably absent in Europe for health and study, delivered his introductory lecture in October, 1845. There is a copy of

this in a volume of "Introductory Addresses," presented by Professor Frank Donaldson, in the Johns Hopkins Hospital Library. "I feel a pride," he says, "to be selected to teach in these halls where thirteen winters past I sat * * for the first time, a young student, my heart beating with bright hopes and filled with warm enthusiasm while listening to the voice of the venerable Pot- ter." Of Bartlett's "Philosophy of Medical Sci- ence," published about a year before, he said it was "decidedly the most remarkable original work that has emanated from the medical pro- fession of this country and the most satisfactory exposition and clean-cut interpretation of the in- ducti\e philosophy that we have met with any- where."

/^ Professor Davidge extirpated the parotid gland ~ in Jan. or Feb., 1823, this being the first time of its performance, three years earlier than Mc- Clellan's, of Jefferson Medical College. The operation is described in D.'s journal, July, 1823, with a certificate to the facts from Frederick E. Bectin, a pupil in D.'s office and alumnus of the University of Maryland.

John Revere was of LIuguenot descent, son of Colonel Paul Revere. He visited Edinburgh and Paris. Took M. D. from the former in i8ii. .Settled in Baltimore in 1816, devoting himself to chemical experiments. "One of best and most learned professors of medicine in the United States. Incomplete work of 400 pages on medi- cine was published by him, but the rest of it could not be found after his death." — Trans. Am. Med. Asso.. III.

Niles' Register, a Baltimore weekly, begun in 181 1, refers to the inconveniences of the college of medicine during the session of 1811-12. "The conspicuous merit of our graduates last spring," i. e., the spring of 181 1, shows that there were graduates before May, 1812, and thus confirms Dr. Potter's statement to that efi^ect (see Cor- dell's Hist. Sketch. 1891).

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We have received $50.00 from William L. Marbury, LL.B., for the University Endowment Fund and $4.00 from C. V. Matthews, D.D.S., for the Dental Department Fund. 0

New members of the General Aliiiiini Asso- ciation: E. Fitzroy Phillips, D.D.S. '09, Balto. ; J. J. Wolfe, Phar.D. '12, Balto. o

As our Associate Editor is too modest to note it himself we may announce that at a preliminary contest held March 14 in McDowell Hall, St. John's College, to decide upon a representative from the college to enter the contest at Baltimore early in April for the prize for the best oration upon the subject "Peace" or ''The General De- sirability of Peace," Cadet Calvert Magruder won. .. The other contestants were Cadets Edgar-

Fell, of the senior class, and O. M. Moore, sophomore class. The judges were Admiral Todd, U. S. N., and Professors Morris and Gladden, of St. John's College.

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We regret to see that Rei'. Dr. Thomas Grier Koontz, the popular pastor of Westminster ("Poe Memorial") Church is to leave Balti- more to become connected with a Presbyterian Church in Wheeling, W. Va. He has announced that he will leave on April 6th. Dr. Koontz has been in charge of AVestminster for eight years, and during that time has endeared himself to all University of Maryland people by his cordial interest and participation in our affairs. He has taken part in all Academic Day Ceremonies, which have always been held at Westminster Church and really might almost be styled the "University Chaplain." The honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him at the last annual commencement. Dr. Koontz will carry with him the best wishes of us all for a successful and prosperous career in the new field of labor to which he has been called.

The following recommendation of the Execu- tive Council was adopted by the Association of American Medical Colleges, at its meeting held at Chicago, Feb. 26, 1913: "That on and after Jan. I, 1914, the Association will raise its pres- ent entrance requirement to one year of college work in physics, chemistry, biology and one mod- ern language, of college grade, in consonance with the action taken by the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association at its meet- ing in Atlantic City, June, 1912." o

The fine new ward added to University Hos- pital by the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road is completed and in operation under Dr. Page Ed- munds. We had hoped to publish in this issue a description of it written by Dr. Edmunds, but owing to his absence from the city, this will have to be deferred until our next issue. 0

Dean R. Dorsey Coale tells us that the merger of the Schools also included the dental depart- ment connected with the Baltimore Medical Col- lege. It was decided that it should be taken in on June I, 1914, or sooner if circumstances called

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for it. j\s the circumstances render it imperative that there should be no delay, it will be consum- mated, as in the case of the college, at the close of the session. There are two full professors in the Faculty of the School, Drs. J. W. Smith, Dean and Professor of Dental Prosthesis, Crown and Bridge Work, and E. E. Cruzen, Professor of Operative Dentistry, Dental Technic, Ortho- dontia and Oral Hygiene. The school is said to have been well administered and to be in pros- perous condition. It has 94 matriculates.

In presenting the portrait of Dr. John Buckler, 'ij, to the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty on Jan. 21, Professor Chew spoke very feelingly. He said that he was probably the last lingering survivor of those of the medical profession who enjoyed the benefits of Dr. Buckler's knowledge and counsel in consultation, although the latter had then already obtained the position of a patri- arch, leader and guide. He was a man of force, intellectual endowments and being always a stu- dent, he kept himself in the forefront of the science of his day. But besides this, he was a typical instance of the family physician, b.icause the qualities of his heart endeared him to his patients and made him their friend and coun- selor. ''As I look at this portrait," said Dr. Chew, 'T see in the ample brow the indication of his mental strength and activity. The ex- pression of the face is very grave and even stern to a degree and does not fully show the kindli- ness and graciousness which belonged to the man. The lack of this is unavoidable by a painter who could only follow one fixed expression of a pho- tograph and who never saw the play of feeling which shone from the living face."

The agreement for union between the two schools, previously made by the Faculty of Physic of the University and the Faculty of the Baltimore Medical College, was ratified by the Board of Regents of the University at a meet-

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ing held on Mar. 19th. It takes effect at the close of the present session. All the details have not yet been settled, but the twelve members of the governing faculty of the College will all be given places in the Board of Instruction. The names of these gentlemen and the positions they will occupy are as follows : Dr. Charles G. Hill, Professor of Nervous and Mental Diseases ; Dr.

A. C. Pole, Professor of Descriptive Anatomy; Dr. David Streett, Professor of Practice of Medicine ; Dr. John D. Blake, Professor of Clini- cal Surgery; Dr. Samuel K. Merrick, Professor of Diseases of Nose and Throat; Dr. J. Frank Crouch, Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology and Otology ; Dr. J. M. H. Rowland, Professor of Clinical Obstetrics ; Dr. Charles O'Donovan, Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Clinical Medicine; Dr. G. Milton Linthicum, Professor of Proctology; Dr. Ridgely B. Warfield, Pro- fessor of Practice of Surgery; Dr. W. B. Perry, Professor of Clinical Gynecology; Dr. Tilghman

B. Marden, Professor of Histology and Embry- ology. Of these, Drs. Pole, Merrick, Crouch, O'Donovan, Warfield and Marden are alumni of the University. The College has 185 matricu- lates.

The only property to be turned over by the College is the equipment of the laboratory. There is only one building belonging to the corporation since the purchase of the Hospital by the Metho- dists; that is the 3-story structure on the east side of Howard St., occupied also by the Law School. As this building is burdened with a heavy mortgage, it was decided not to purchase it, but it will continue the property of the Col- lege corporation, which will remain in existence as a chartered institution indefinitely for the pur- pose of holding it.

A separate agreement has been made between the Faculty of Physic and the owners of the Maryland General Hospital, by which the clinical advantages of that institution with its 175 beds are secured for the University. This is regarded as the most important feature of the merger and was largely responsible for it.

"So, in eft'ect," as remarked by the Sun, "the absorption of the College means simply the clos- ing down of that institution and the addition of the members of its Faculty to the teaching force of the University."

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• Aug. 24, 1812: "The building is already in great forwardness." Potter has Theory and Practice of Medicine, Da\idge has Institutes or Principles of Physick, Davidge and Hall have jointly Obstetrics, Diseases of Women and Chil- dren. The course commences the ist Monday in November and ends the last day of February. This notice is signed by a committee of the Fac- ulty (Cocke, Davidge and Gibson). This is added under the above date: "Resolved, etc., That as an expression of the estimation in which the col- lege of medicine holds classical learning, a gold medal be given annually for the best written the- sis in Latin and all graduates in arts and science.? be exempt from the ordinary expense of gradua- tion. James Cocke, sec."

1813. The university building, begun May 7. 1812, was occupied the next session. The pro- fessor of chemistry is now arranging his miner- alogical collection.

1816. Previously all professors except chemi- cal have occupied anatomical hall for lectures. This year they were accommodated with a new room deri\ed from an alteration in the library in the front of the building. This added greatlv to the comfort of the classes, as it was sufficiently large, easily warmed, etc.

Dr. David Ramsay, the celebrated historian, author of "History of the American Revolution," was shot to death by an insane man in Charles- ton, .S. C, March i, 181 5. He was born in Cum- berland Co., N. J., in 1748, and was graduated in medicine at the Philadelphia Medical College, taking M. B. in 1768. He commenced practice at the head of Bohemia River, in Cecil Co.. Md.. but not meeting with the desired success, soon removed to Charleston. \'ol. ix.

Marriage : William Trickett Giles, LL.B., '90. to Miss Ellen Francis Thomas, at Allnutt Memo- rial Church, Baltimore, Mar. 12. They left im- mediately for Atlantic City.

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Dkaths: Bruce Thomas. M. D., '52, at the American Hospital, Phila., Mar. 14, aged 80. He practiced many years in Frederick City, Md. Robert Hamilton Campbell, M. D., '89, at his home in New Orleans, Mar. 17. from typhoid fever, aged 43. He was formerly manager of the Baltimore branch of the N. Y. I>ife Insurance Co. At the time of his death he was general manager of the Security Mutual Life Insurance Company at New Orleans. JVilliam F. Dohme, Ph.G., '90, at Baltimore, Mar, 18, aged 66. He was the last surviving brother of Louis Dohme, founder of the firm of Sharp and Dohme, man- ufacturing chemists, and for over 26 years he was associated with that firm, retiring ten years ago. During the Civil War he served in Cole's Md. Union Cavalry. Plis death was due to disease of the heart. James Everard Massie, M. D., '71, at his home in Rock Hill, S. C, Jan. 20, aged 64. Marcellns B. Shupe, M,D,, '85, a B, & O. R. R. surgeon, at Connellsville, Pa., Mar. 23.

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Dr. G. Hampton Kichards, '08, has been ekcted Mayor of Port' Deposit, Md. — J. Harry I legoe, LL.R., '05, former president of the Gen- eial .Mumni Association, now secretary of the National Association of Credit Men, delivered ati address before the Baltimore credit men, at the Y. M. C. A., March 14, on "Terms of Sale and The Parts They Play in Sound Credit." — Dr. Page Edmunds, '98. B. & O. R. R. Surgeon, who has been suffering from an infected arm, left for Bermuda, Mar, 19, where he is spending two weeks in rest. — Dr. Chas. B. Henkel, '89, ■ of Annapolis, has sued the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., and certain persons for slander, claiming $95,000 damages. — Dr. Walter F. Wickes, 1900. spent the winter at Palm Beach, Pla. He returned Mar. 26. — Dr. George Edward Truitt, '07. delivered an illustrated lecture on Mexico before the Royal Arcanum, on Mar. 11. Dr. T. spent several years in Guadalajara, being forced to leave on the outbreak of the recent troubles there. — Samuel B. Plotkin, LL.B., '12, has opened an office, for the practice of law, at 231 Courtland St. — A suit of $5,000 for damages agahist Dr. Henry C. Houck, '05, and wife, of

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Balto., was settled in their favor. A child ran in front of their automobile and was struck sus- taining a fracture of the leg and other injuries. — Prof. J. C. Hemmeter resumed his lectures, after his illness, Mar. 6. — The Drake University Col- lege of Medicine failing in its efforts to secure endowment and realizing, therefore, its inability to maintain itself in the front rank of medical schools, will merge with the State University of Iowa at Iowa City.

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CORRESPONDENCE.

The Royal Society of Medicine,

I Wimpole Street, London. \Y.,

March 8, 1913. Professor E. F. Cordell,

Dear Sir:

Sectio}! of the History of Medicine:

I have pleasure in informing you that you have been elected a Corresponding (Honorary) Member of the Section of the History of Medi- cine of this Society.

As a Corresponding (Honorar}') Member you are exempt from all fees and subscriptions, and have the privilege of attending all ordinary meet- ings of the Section and of contributing papers.

I enclose the Obligation Form and shall be obliged if you will sign and return it io me at 3'our early convenience.

I also enclose a copy of the Abridged Calendar, which gives particulars with regard to the So- ciety and the Sections.

Faithfully yours,

J. Y. W. MacALISTER,

Secretary.

DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE.

The students, thru Old M.\RYL.^ND, wish to extend to the Faculty their very sincere thanks for the holiday given them March 4. They scarce expected to have the day off. not that the Faculty did not wish us to have it, but because the Col- lege Association had made no such provision. However, with no disrespect, by far the major- ity of the students would have taken French leave anyway, — the stolid-faced Republicans go- ing as they said to see what a Democratic Presi-

dent looked like, for fear they'd never see an- other. Bwana Tumbo's adherents are plenty at the University, but to Bwana the world has said "I 'ale." tho neither Bwana Tumbo nor his cym- bal ringers can see it — even thru a microscope. Teddy, we imagine, was on the Outlook that day and his followers on the lookout, — but Wilson's

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Mr. Lutz, of the Junior Class, met with a very unfortunate accident while crossing Lombard St. from the hospital, recently. Mr. Lutz fell in such a way that the olecranon process of his right ulnar bone was snapped. Dr. Spruill at- tended to the injury and best hopes are enter- tained that nothing serious will develop, as a re- sult of the accident.

Dr. Gordon Wilson is confined to his home with an infected hand. In his absence. Dr. Lock- ard is lecturing to the Juniors on Medicine.

Mr. Devine, of the Senior Class, has received an appointment as medical interne in St. Joseph's Hospital, Prov., R. I. — his interneship to com- mence July I and last for one year. Mr. Devine recently took the competitive examinations at the above-mentioned hospital — and to use a stu- dent colloquialism, "knocked their eyes out." Four Harvard men besides representatives of the other well-known Northern Colleges took the examinations.

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Mr. Norbert C. Nitsch, of the Senior Class, has been appointed to assist Dr. Bloodgood at St. Agnes' Hospital, during the coming year.

Prof. Hemmeter was warmly welcomed by the students on his return to the University, after ■ an enforced absence of some four months. Dr. Hemmeter is glad to get back to his "boys" and he may feel assured that his "boys" are mighty glad to have him back. To the Sophs and a goodly number of students of the other classes who came to greet him. Dr. Hemmeter, after an exchange of courtesies, delivered a very instruc- tive lecture on "The History of the Physiology of Digestion."

One half of the Junior Class has finished the course in Clinical Lab. and, judging from the returns, all is well on this side of the Potomac. Not a man flunked and at least six of them man- aged to pluck down a century mark. Dr. Lock- ard states, that never before has he read such a collection of examination papers, which only goes to show that the Jwniors are making some noise.

Mr. Richard W. Morton, formerly of the class of '14, dropped around to pay his former class- mates a flying visit, after witnessing the Inaugu- ration Ceremonies. "Dick," as he is familiarly known, is now located in Winston-Salem, N. C, and holds a very responsible position in one of the largest business houses there.

Death has called away from the Sophomores one of their classmates, — Mr. James B. Radlow, of N. Y. — who died at the University Hospital during the past week of peritonitis, after inef- fectual efl:'orts on the part of Dr. Shipley, to keep burning the sputtering spark of life. But Death was the stronger, another victim it claimed, this time in the person of a young man whose life had just begun, one admired and respected by all. When sable-robed Death mantles under her shroud one of those we have learned to love, then it is, for the first time maybe, that the chains of fettered memory are unloosed — and there comes before our eyes the well-known face of him, who is no more of this world a part. From out of the past, in slow procession, there pass for

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review the little actions of that one and perhaps we smile a sweet yet sad, sad smile, as the Magi- cian Death conjures his pictures — a smile de- noting pleasant associations, little somethings that lie hidden in our hearts and which the heart that knows only can understand. Maybe we sigh that perhaps we have caused that one need- less pain, that our acts of omission helped to roughen his already roughened way. The pessi- mistic world, with eyes bandaged to tears and heart closed to pity, holds up a deriding finger and from a soul enured to tender words, pro- claims that 'twas ever so — to praise a man when his ears are deaf to our belated words of sym.- pathy and cold in death he is no more. Yet the heart that is full hears not and the hearts of the Sophomores for they have lost a friend — a class- mate and highest of all that can be said, a man. He is gone from our view, but in remembrance, when memory in her sweet enchanted hour rules supreme, then again will he live. At times we'll say a prayer, that he who with life yet to live, found death in life, may be better now; that on that other unknown, mystic shore to which we all must go, he may have found life in death.

Dr. John C. Hemmeter has extended to Dr. Friedman, who recently startled the world by his claim of having discovered a cure for Tubercu- losis and who is at the present time in New York demonstrating his purported cure — an invi- tation to visit the University, for the purpose of making experiments. Whether or not Dr. Fried- man will accept is a matter of conjecture, but we sincerely hope that he will, that we may profit thereby. The medical profession all over the world is putting every obstacle in the way of this learned man — they call him mercenary, non- ethical and a host of other unbecoming epithets. To be great is to be misunderstood by those who, thru jealousy, cynicism or what not, do not want to understand. Pythagoras, Socrates, Coperni- cus, Galileo. Newton, Darwin and others of the truly great, had to face Golgotha and now it's Dr. Friedman's turn. If his cure is true, time will tell but in the meantime, let us aid him if we can.

Dr. B. Merril Hopkinson delivered a very pleasing and instructive lecture in the Hospital Amphitheatre, Monday, March 11, at i P. M.. before the students of all departments. A nuni-

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ber of visiting physicians, besides many of the regular hospital staff, were present. The subject of Dr. Hopkinson's lecture was "Diseases of the Mouth and Digestive Disturbances."

Mr. Stapleton, of the Junior Class, employs himself during the summer months, by drawing cartoons for one of the New Jersey Daily Papers. He possesses great skill in this line of work and his drawings are always original and to the point. Mr. Stapleton has contributed two cartoons for the Terra Marine.

Messrs. Tullidge, Murphy and McDaniel, of the Senior Class, have taken the Civil Service Examinations for the Indian Service and will be eligible for appointments at the end of the col- lege year. Messrs. Bean, Gould and Pratt, of the same class, having passed successful competi- tive examinations at Bayview Hospital, held early in February, were offered appointments on the Surgical, Tubercular and Neurological Depart- ments of that Hospital.

Messrs. Newcomer, Pratt and Hays, Senior Class, recently took the examinations for ap- pointments at the Union Protestant Infirmary.

The final examinations for the Seniors com- mence the week of April i.

The theatre party and benefit held by the Ath- letic Alumni Association of the University, on March 26, at the Academy, was well attended by both students and members of the Faculty, their wives and friends. The offering was Christie McDonald, star of "The Spring Maid," and a number of other light operas, in Victor Herbert's latest offering, "Sweethearts."

\\'e have heard in figurative language of things dying in their birth and that expression quite adequately fits the present state of atheltics at the University. Last year we heard of won- drous things to be done for athletics by the Fac- ulty and we oped our weary eyes, inflated our lungs and hurrahed. But now — castle walls have fallen, hope lies buried, and athletics like a weep-

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ing willow has bowed itself to earth, cried a mournful, heartful sigh and died — a martyr and perhaps at the present writing it is mourning on its passage across the Styx, while optimistic Charon, thinking of the coming examinations by Euscalapius on the other side of the stream, says — "Go light with the tears kiddo — do you want to have a flood"?

But where's the blame — why the demise of poor Athletics ? Students perhaps have a share in it, yet the students have always held some mis- givings relative to the sincerity of the Faculty's stand of a year ago. They may be wrong, yet you will have to explain to them why it is that some of the Professors seem so opposed to those men who take an active part in the few games that are played — at least such an impression is firmly fixed in their minds and if they do partici- pate in any of the games they liken it to a suicide on their part since they honestly believe that, by doing such, the Professors opposed to athletics will flunk them. The view may be extreme but it exists just the same.

This year we are to have no baseball team — • at least none authorized to bear the University's name. In the school there is plenty of good material — men who have played on some of the biggest college nines in the country, but athletics are discountenanced and these men as far as baseball is concerned might as well be in Kalama- zoo. To our minds, nothing is to be gained but much lost by the failure of the Faculty to give the teams representing the University the ade- quate support financially and otherwise that they should have. What makes students pack Flar- vard, Yale or any of the other well-known Uni- versities ? Surely education to a great extent, but it is mainly the achievements of their foot- ball or baseball team and to whichever college that makes the best showing the students flock. They feel proud in going to such a school, they advertise it unconsciously and the school is boomed.

The adjunct Faculty has striven hard to put athletics on a firm footing — until they are sick of the whole aff'air. They claim that the students have not acted as they should, either by helping out the association by buying tickets or by at- tendance at the few games that were played. Not only that, but the men representing the teams

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failed to practice and as is the way of the world, kept the suits which should have been returned. I'he students are to blame — we acknowledge it, but why not give us an association that is an association so that interest must be taken ? You'll never get men to buy tickets for an association unless you give them something in return and the men who separated themselves from the dol- lodocci in the past by buying association tickets were philanthropists more or less, for in return they were given the golden opportunity of seeing one or two games played in Baltimore.

Why athletics are not encouraged and sup- ported more is probably known only to the Fac- ulty. They may think like the vitriolic Hubbard, of East Aurora — "that" football (and baseball) occupies the same relation to education that a bullfight does to farming." Yet we'll let the jibe slip by and hurl invectives from the Essay on Silence. Athletics to education is an integral part — one alone makes a physical man, the other alone a person suffering from ankylosis of the cerebrum as far as seeing the bright side of life is concerned. Give the former a hypo of educa- tion and the latter a 606 injection of athletics and you have a man — a healthy man in mind and body. And what are we to have — the hypo or the injection? Quick Doc — the injection for mine. And while I'm waiting for it, I'm going out to buy some flowers and place them with a tear on poor athletics' grave, who died at the University of Maryland during the past year of cruel neglect — and on whose retina, — as is fixed on the retina of every dying person that image which it last sees — is fixed the picture of those who killed it in cold blood — the students and the Faculty.

Professors Randolph WinslOw and R. Dorsey Coale attended the educational conferences and the meeting of the Association of American Med- ical Colleges held at Chicago Feb. 24-26. The former thinks that the 5th clinical year will be adopted in the near future. All the best medical schools are now members of the Association, and the Association will not admit to membership, schools not in Class A, and those falling below this rating are dropped. Schools without affilia-

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Dr. J. Holmes Smith, Jr., has received his commission in the U. S. Public Health Service and has been ordered to duty at the Ellis Island Immigration Station in New York Harbor. He left Baltimore March 24. There are 24 members of the service on duty at Ellis Island.

The friends of Dr. Louis McLane Tiffany, of Baltimore, are raising a subscription to procure a portrait of him for preservation in the Hall of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty. "There are few men who can look back upon a career of such distinction and usefulness as can Dr. Tif- fany, and it is rare that a man can count so many students, whose success in life had been directly dependent upon his own inspiring precept and example." Dr. George Walker has charge of the subscriptions, which may be sent to the Hall of the Faculty. All may feel free to contribute, no matter how small the amount and the names alone of subscribers will be published.

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RECEPTION TO PROVOST THOMAS FELL, BY THE GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIA- TION.

A reception was tendered to our new Provost at the Hotel Rennert, Baltimore, on the evening of March 27th by the General Alumni Associa- tion. The occasion was one of warm self-con- gratulation by the Alumni and of the most cor- dial greetings to the new head of the University. The keynote was one of jubilation over the new era inaugurated in the University and of bright anticipations of blessings to come as the result of it.

The Faculty of the Baltimore Medical College were present by invitation and were warmly wel- comed. By formal vote the graduates of the College were recognized as alumni of the Uni- versity arid declared eligible fo' membership in the Association.

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speakers were Dr. Samuel K. Merrick, repre- esnting the Faculty of the Baltimore Medical College ; Dr. John C. Hemmeter, representing the Department of Medicine; Judge Walter L Daw- kins, of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore, repre- senting St. John's College; Mr. Thomas G. Mackenzie, representing the Department of Law; Dr. B. Merrill Hopkinson, representing the De- partment of Dentistry, and Dr. Henry P. Hyn- son, representing the Department of Pharmacy. Nearly one hundred persons were present and a fine dinner was served.

Through the courtesy of the Provost we are able to gi\-e the following outline of his remarks :

"I am extremely gratified by this expression of good feeling on the part of the Alumni of the University of Maryland. It gives me great en- couragement in carrying out the task which lies before me.

"In your cordial welcome I see the manifesta- tion of a marked interest in the welfare of the University.

"For such a purpose a meeting like this is full of potentialities. Here you are, men of all politi- cal shades of thought, men representative of every professional calling, men capable of effect- ing much.

"The difikulty in the past has been to produce a united concentrated effort on the part of the alumni. There has been too much disposition to promise, and too little of the willingness to act.

"First, we should endeavor to make the best of the resources we have, instead of lamenting the lack of what is not available.

"Second, each alumnus should be inspired with a sense of responsibility for the welfare and progress of the University.

"You alumni can bring to our aid invaluable suggestions from your vantage ground of expe- rience.

"As there are none who have greater pride in the University, so there are none to whom the University should be able to turn with greater assurance of help.

"The Alumni are those to whom we look espe- cially for support in the community. The Uni- versity must have living friends. The gifts of the past exhaust themselves. The bounties of the present should run in a perpetual stream. We must have endowment for the Medical School and also for all the Schools of the University.

"When I was in New York recently endeavor- ing to promote an Endowment Fund for St. John's College an example of what might be done by persevering effort was related to me.

"Two alumni of a not very large college de- termined to set to work to raise an endowment for their college. They recognized the fact that they owed their present position to the education given them there, and that without it their prob- able career would have been far different.

"Within two years they had secured $5,000.00, and during the third year they obtained a large donation from a wealthy man toward building a new Laboratory. Very shortly afterwards this same gentleman having become interested in the college by their efforts presented the sum of $100,000.00 for endowment.

"There is sometimes an idea prevalent among • university men that the university career is simply a three or four year contract whereby, in consideration of a certain sum of money, the university is to supply him with a certain amount of knowledge, and to present him with a proper certificate, to notify the world that he has had it.

"The transaction is completed, the doctor or lawyer regards the obligation on both sides at an end.

"Now this is a fallacy. No man squares his account with his Alma Mater by the payment of his last term bill. He still owes her more than Desdemona owed father and lover both, and, among the most important and simplest of these duties is to subscribe for, read, and encourage in every possible way the publications giving infor- mation of the esoteric life of the University.

"We look, therefore, to you alumni to add to the fair fame of this Uni\ersity, to which you belong. She looks to you, the living Maryland, to build upon the foundation so nobly laid in the past."

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Dr. William Osier had lately come from Phila- delphia as physician-ill-chief of the Hospital and had already attracted much attention by reason of his unic|ue personality, his versatility in medi- cine and his literary facility. He was, a master of English, deeply versed in the history of medicine, an expert pathologist, a well-trained diagnosti- tian. filled with knowledge of practical medicine. and a remarkable clinical teacher. He had un- wearied industry and a wonderful ability to util- ize his gifts to accomplish beneficial results for medical science and for the world. His call to Oxford in 1905 was a serious blow to the Hos- pital.— Dr. Hurd, Early Days of Johns Hopkins Hospital and Medical School, J. H. Alumni Mag. 0

In the naming of the public schools of Balti- more on March 25, there was keen rivalry. Among names selected were those of Edgar Allan Poe, the p"oet. Dr. Henry -Stevenson, the famous inoculator. and Robert Gilmor, former trustee of the University; and among those rejected were Dr. John Stevenson, the "Romulus" of Balti- more. John P. Kennedy, former Provost, and John H. B. Latrobe. former Regent of the Uni- versity.

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Judge Dawkins says the University reminds him of an old hen, called Speck, which his mother owns — she is very fond "of spreading herself."

DEPARTMENT of LAW.

.58th Annual Session begins Sept. 23, 1913. Faculty of 12. For catalogue containing full information ad- dress the Dean, 1063 Calvert Bldg., Baltimore, Md.

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DEPARTMENT of PHARMACY.

(Formerly Maryland College of Pharmacy). 71st Annual Session begins September 25, 1913. 11 In- structors. New Laboratories. Address

CHARLES CASPARI, JR., Phar.D., Dean,

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Dr. Robert E. Abell, '12, of University Hos- pital Resident Staff, has been appointed First Lieutenant in the Medical Corps, Md. Nat. Guard.— The State Pharmacy will hold examina- tions on y-Vpril 3 and 4.— Carrie G. Mossop, Phar.D. '12, has