1920-1925 



XI 



THE autumn of 1920 marked the centenary of Cincin- 

 nati's medical college. Dean Christian R Holmes had 

 planned its celebration — the scattered clinical and scientific 

 branches of the old school had been brought together again 

 in one geographic spot, it was financially in soundest state, he 

 had housed the enterprise in a set of buildings that no other 

 medico-educational enterprise in U S A could boast, the stu- 

 dent body was of world-wide origin, and the men of its faculty 

 were returning from the war — there was cause for jubilation. 

 With the dean first, Wherry was second man to the univer- 

 sity's "senate," and the dean had assigned to him the task of 

 picking from America's medical thousands a few upon whom 

 the laurel wreath of accomplishment might be bestowed. But 

 before this collegiate gathering could take place, the captain 

 died. The matter needed to be deferred a year; and was. 



Invitation had taken me to lecture in Europe. There Wherry 

 wrote (February 2, 1921) : 



I am holding my little finger for you, though in imagination 

 only, for I have always had the greatest confidence in the little 

 Boy Orator from Halsted St. 



I am always surprised when a butterfly emerges from the 

 tomb. You will remember de Santo, our Filipino from Min- 

 danao. Give him a bolo and a G-string and he is a head hunter. 

 A couple of weeks ago he presented a paper on hookworm 

 disease to the class. He brought two maps of the hemispheres 

 to point out its geographical distribution, mentioned every 

 race and place, gave statistics, symptomatology, pathology 

 and treatment in detail, and ended with a plea that medicine 

 take greater interest in the prevention of a disease so world- 

 widely disabling. His presentation was of the best, and the class 

 gave him an ovation; yet I am afraid that but few felt the 

 way I did after reading the autobiography of Booker T 

 Washington. . . . Dr & Mrs Nast want us to spend the sum- 



