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...policy gives particular significance to another insurance gesture, to which Dr. Wilbur referred last week. School teachers and certain other staid individuals of regular habits in Dallas, Texas each pay 50? a month to Baylor Hospital. For that premium the hospital takes care of them when they get sick. The unusual significance, apart from the novelty of the plan, is that the foremost doctor on Baylor Hospital staff is Edward Henry Gary, who next May becomes president...
...chosen president for 1932. Dr. Canis a rich man. He started his wealth with medicine, increased it by marriage, multiplied it by business. An Alabaman who worked his way through Manhattan night schools and through Bellevue Hospital Medical School, he became first dean of the medical school of Baylor University and its professor of ophthalmology & otolaryngology (1902). His private eye, ear & throat practice became large. Twenty years ago he married Georgia Fonda Schneider, of an old, wealthy Texas family. (At Philadelphia Mrs. Gary in a black & eggshell chiffon & lace gown was reckoned the best-dressed doctor's wife. Georgie, eldest...
Died. Dr. Samuel Palmer Brooks, 67, president since 1902 of Baylor University (Waco, Tex.) who sought vainly on his death bed to sign the 468 diplomas of this year's graduating class (TIME, May 18); of abdominal cancer; in Waco...
Calling together his faculty, he said: "My only regret in going is that I shall never be able to stand before another Baylor student body." On the campus students asked: "What's the latest?" and the reply came: "Condition unchanged." The Texas Legislature sent a message of sympathy. His oldtime roommate came, Pat Neff who, chairman of Baylor's board of trustees, was a likely choice as his successor...
...diplomas he looked up and said: "I have tried to teach them how to live. I wish now to teach them how to die." He sent a last message to be read in morning chapel: "Carry on. Men are mortal and pass away, but the ideals upon which Baylor University is built will never...