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Identifier: 39002011122471.med.yale.edu
Title: History of the class of 1911 : Medical Department of Yale University
Year: 1911 (1910s)
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Subjects: Yale University. School of Medicine Medical students
Publisher: New Haven, Conn. : Yale University
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
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rpheus. And DeanSmiths colored balls ; how with these lie taught us the meaning of isomerism,polymerism, and how to make the ah! me ! no! compounds. And AnatomyLab.,—the memory of that Cadaver Quartet, whose hangout was about thebier of Venus (though they really preferred Adams!) ! Chemistry Lab..—with the melodrama, Fighting the Flames, and the game of sugar up;the jollying of the rosy-cheeked stock-clerk, and his come-back when theunknowns appeared—unknowns which remained so to all save SallyBarnum. Physiology was damnation, and the master a real Mephisto ; theidea of trying to make the Fresh think Physiology! Contrast the master ofthe structure of the human body, thinking it best to develop the frameworkbefore putting in the engines, and assigning fifteen to si.\ty pages of Gray!Looking back, we think we see method in their torture. Such were some of the trials and some of the joys of Fresh days. Maythey always be a part of us and we never more a part of them! H. L. Abramson.
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Second Year Having- met the first Facult\- onslauglit, we eame back to school in theIall of 1908 to further increase our knowledge of Anatoni_v and Physiolog)and enter the new and imexplored fields of Pharmacology, Pathology andBacteriology. True, our numbers had bec-n decreased, but we ielt we hadbeen the fittest to survive and condescended to speak to a Freshman occa-sionally. The first redeeming feature of the year was Ihe comparatively low bookexpense, which was for most of us quite a relief. Dr. Henderson, an oldY man, began to develop material for the pitching stafl^ of the baseballleam ; the curves we scientists soon learned to get out of any old machinewere wonderful. Here aso Charlie I.arnnm tried out the kickers forthe football team by his improved knee-jerk apparatus. Later in the coursewe became real doctors, each with his defined and unassailable position on theoperating stafif of the Physiological Laborator)-. The bacteriological research and discoveries of x\rthur JNIit

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