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...opinion of Dr. Armitage Whitman who succeeded his retired father at New York Hospital for the Ruptured & Crippled, few people know this. Their ignorance made him cry out to the New York Academy of Medicine: "Once they have an understanding of the nature of the disease, when it no longer seems the utterly mysterious thing that it does now, the people will no longer rush frantically from quack to quack, sacrificing the fortunes of the family to any one who promises a cure...
...Said Dr. Whitman: "All these patients are entitled at least to a chance of relief. In favorable cases surgical treatment may entirely mask the effects of the disease. In worse cases it may enable the patient to discard apparatus. In the worst cases it can hold out the possibility of independent locomotion. . . . Only a very small number need expect to look, feel, or act like a cripple...
...Macy Erickson 70 William Francis Brooks 67 Duaue Weills Rainbolt 61 FOR CLASS DAY COMMITTEE *Edmund Austin Mays, Jr. 196 *Robert Morrison Faxon 143 *Wilson Hill Crosby 137 *Thomas Eliss Armstrong 131 *Donald Murdoch Frame 115 *Otto Ernest Fuerbringer 114 *Daniel Bliss Dorman 111 Crispin Cooke 106 Peter Morton Whitman 106 John Wilberforce Appel. III 99 Potter Palmer, III 98 Edwin Allen Locke, Jr. 87 John Bromham Hawes, III 86 Allan Wilfred Adams 75 Dudley Bradstreet Williams Brown 70 George Henry Pattison, Jr. 68 Total votes cast 258 *Elected
Peter Morton Whitman...
...conclusion of his remarks Whitman presented the President with a book, containing signatures of the associates, tutors, and present residents of Lowell House. President Lowell accepted the gift with a few observations on the growth of the House plan idea into its present healthy condition. Accompanying the gift of the House came a huge birthday cake decorated with 75 candles, which was subsequently cut by the President and then passed to the various tables...