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and the ovation with which he was greeted was expressive of our appreciation.
     Orthopedic surgery gave way to dermatology, and as a warning from the faculty, of the reforms they had undertaken, the entire class now met Dr. Burbank in a big clinic.  It was at one of these meetings that the genial ability of "Cloudy Swelling" Cummings was unearthed by the discovery that he was able to percuss a patient's liver on the left side.
     Lest we forget, we cannot but express our appreciation of the valiant effort of Dr. Williston to continue his activity as Professor of Obstetrics.  His days were but numbered and we cannot hesitate to do him honor.  How well do we recall the riotous hours spent, as he would insert his periodic but well timed yarns of the days of long ago.
     Spring ushered itself in and with its warmth many of us fell into slumbers in many a session.  The year was now well nigh to a close and the final examinations soon crept on us.  In a few days it was all over and the black dispatches were soon released.  Excitement ran high and reached its crowning point when the announcement came that no member of the class was to leave town, unless he had been so advised by the office of the Dean.  Pandemonium now reigned, as the appointed hour of the appointed day approached.  With slowly measured and quivering steps we wended our way to the office of the Dean and there received the final say as to our fate.  To many there was an expression of joy and contentment, while to quite a few, we can never forget the mournful look which capped their countenances, as they emerged from the transmission of suspense.  The mortality was great, for well nigh half the class was called back.
     Notwithstanding our disaster we returned here in the fall of 1928 bent on redeeming our lost glory.  The class which had begun with 61 members and had taken on 5 additional members during our Sophomore and Junior years, had now dwindled to a mere 45.  Undaunted by the heavy mortality, we were soon on our way.  Unlike previous years, our work now called for time at the bedside, and it was now obvious that we had to put into actual practice the theory which we had acquired during the three previous years.
     The class was now divided into sections and Dr. Curtis was soon under way with his lectures, which were made all the more impressive by the various epigrams which he would insert at frequent intervals, and last but not least by his time honored dictum of free incision and adequate drainage.  Following in his wake came Dr. Thompson with his lectures on diseases of the genito urinary tract, while Dr. Woodward in a series of impressive lectures outlined the ethics of the profession and the pitfalls into which the doctor is liable to fall.
     But of far greater importance was our meeting at the bedside during the afternoon hours with Dr. Bloedorn and his illustrious assistants who alternated from day to day.  Nor can we forget the panicky moments of the Friday clinic when some one of us were due to appear in the "pit".

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WILLIAM WALLACE ANDREWS, B.S.
"Hollow Head"
Apalachicola, Fla.
Alpha Phi Alpha

Here, girls, is the original "big butter and egg man," the only member of the class not known to work and draw an allowance and a salary.  Florida A.& M. passed him to Howard in 1922, and he found time between naps there to be in the Kappa Sigma Debating Society and serve as football material.  As a compensation for being voted the "ugliest man" in our number he has turned to psychiatry, as a specialty and rightly so because he says he will interne at Bellevue and practice in St. Paul, Minn.  His first publication will be "Sleeping Four Years Through Medical School.  An Autobiography."     

The undertaker's "Hope".  Deep-learned and shallow read.

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SIMEON ALEXANDER THEODORE AUSTIN,
B.S., "Zoop"
British Guiana, S.A.
Kappa Pi (Hon.)

This illustrious gent is distinguished in many ways.  Besides having the longest name in the class, and a nickname of undetermined etiology, he is the only man known in history to have elicited rough breathing from a corpse.  Withal he is one our best scholars.  Trained at St. Mary's Scots School in British Guiana, a graduate of DeWitt Clinton High, New York, and a "B.S." from Howard where he was an honor student, "Zoop" is going ahead.  He plans to interne at Providence Hospital in Baltimore, and practice in New Jersey, later, to specialize in internal medicine at Edinburgh, and L'Ecole de Medicine, Paris.

Thinks he is moral, when he is really only uncomfortable!