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members of the college fraternities were thrown into the closest 

 intimacy, and life-long friendships were formed through them. Chap- 

 man belonged to the Delta Phi, first established in the University in 

 1849. He never cared greatly about athletics, which occupied no 

 such prominent place in University interests as they do now. Cricket 

 was the game of the period, but Chapman never went in for it. He 

 may have gone on the river, but he was not one of the College crew. 1 



Henry graduated from the Department of Arts in 1864. He almost 

 immediately crossed the campus and matriculated in the Medical 

 Department, by far the most distinguished medical school in America, 

 under the preceptorship of Dr. Addinell Hewson. Here also the 

 teaching force was small, consisting of but seven professors : Joseph 

 Leidy, Joseph Carson, R. A. F. Penrose, Henry H. Smith, Robert 

 E. Rogers, Alfred Stille and Francis Gurney Smith, but these were 

 the worthy successors of the men who had brought the school to its 

 distinguished position and they more than maintained its brilliant 

 record. 



As in school and college, Chapman sustained the easiest relations 

 to the medical curriculum, frequently missing lectures but always, 

 after a few hours' reading, acquitting himself at quiz as well as the 

 most studious of his classmates. He took his degree of Doctor of 

 Medicine in 1867, the subject of his thesis being Generation. 



He entered the Pennsylvania Hospital the same year, first as an 

 attache of the apothecary shop and later as a resident physician, 



1 I am much indebted to Mr. John Cadwalader for these recollections of the 

 young Chapman, of the Faires school, and of the College before the removal to 

 West Philadelphia. In his reminiscences of the school Mr. Cadwalader tells 

 one story which is now of more than local interest. "A big, well built boy of 

 about fifteen years of age, named Irvine Stephens Bulloch, was then in the second 

 class. It was unusual for the Doctor to flog a boy of this size, as he realized it 

 imposed too severe a humiliation on him. Bulloch was usually a good student, 

 but he sat behind a very offensive boy whom he felt it his duty to constantly 

 chastise. This he did by giving him, from time to time, a loud smack in the 

 face which could be heard throughout the school. The victim, quite as big 

 as Bulloch, would set up a howl without attempting to resent the blow. The 

 sympathies of the school were, as a matter of course, all witli the aggressor. 

 Dr. Faires had a warm regard for Bulloch, who was a boy after his own heart, 

 but he had told him repeatedly his assaults must stop. Catching him one day 

 in the act the Doctor became much enraged, as he sometimes would on due 

 provocation. Seizing his heaviest cane he ran across the room. Bulloch 

 escaped to another aisle, the boys guarding his retreat as effectively as possible 

 until he reached the door, when, raising his hand, he cried: 'Dr. Faires, you 

 cannot flog me and I do not want to fight with you. I know, of course, I will 

 have to leave the school; so, good bye, fellows, I am awfully sorry to go.' This 

 boy, who had come from Georgia, was the uncle of Theodore Roosevelt. He 

 entered the Confederate Navy, was a distinguished officer, and was on the 'Ala- 

 bama' in its battle with the 'Kearsage.' A portrait of him was published in 

 the Illustrated London News soon after the battle." 



