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Since most university librarians feel that their needs are never very lavishly attended to, they must rely, for anything more than bare necessities, upon outside gifts. Oxford University has its Friends of the Bodleian Library, founded by the late Sir William Osier, who was curator of that most scholarly of English-speaking collegiate libraries. To Harvard has come $216,742 in gifts through its Friends of the Library, founded in 1925 by a group of alumni at a dinner in honor of the late Archibald Gary Coolidge, then Harvard librarian. The Friends of the Columbia Library, formed...
...many men have received such formal homage while they were alive. Among the few are: the late William Osier when he was teaching at Johns Hopkins; Harvey Gushing, Harvard's brain surgeon; the late Abraham Jacobi of Columbia, founder of pediatrics (children's diseases) ; Carl Gustaf A. Forssell, radiologist of Sweden; Albert Sigmund Gustav Döderline, gynecologist of Germany. And now Cancer Man Ewing of Cornell...
Three other medical men were found for the nuclei around which Johns Hopkins was to grow great. One was a young Canadian, William Osier, destined to become Sir William, Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford. Before going to Hopkins he had had ten years teaching' experience at McGill University, Montreal. For his work there he was later to get the unofficial title "Father of Modern Medicine in Canada." The other two nuclei: Dr. Howard Kelly, now an internationally known surgeon, and the late Dr. William Halsted, whose fame was his operative technique for the eradication of goitre...
...people.) Dr. Routley's election was commendation for his organizing work in Canadian medicine. Because his C. M. A. office is at Toronto, Toronto was made headquarters for the Royal Canadian College of Physicians & Surgeons. Generally acclaimed as the greatest of Canadian doctors was the late William Osier (1849-1919), who taught at McGill. By grading of the Nobel prize the living Canadians who have contributed most to medicine are Frederick Grant Banting, 38, Professor of Medical Research at the Uni-versity of Toronto, and his preceptor, John James Rickard Macleod, 53, Professor of Physiology at the University...
...last week he walked with the applauding throng of notables,* through the library building, past a bust of himself and into the library's great hall, he paused near an ancient statuette of Asklepios and looked at Sargent's The Four Doctors hanging above the fireplace. And Osier again seemed to be saying to him as once before he said: "This is the stock in the soup...