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Transactions of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia (1917)
Transactions of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia - 1917 Author:College of Physicians of Philadelphia Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PRESENTATION OF THE PORTRAIT OF DR. JOHN H. PACKARD1 I Must apologize in not having prepared, as I had hoped to prepare, a sketch of the life of our beloved ... more »friend, Dr. Packard. All I shall say now I shall have to say without notes; yet I feel it is my duty to say something on thi? occasion, as it has been a time-honored custom at the presentation of a portrait of a deceased Fellow to speak of the part he played in this College, that the younger Fellows of the College may be familiar with his work, and that there may be a connecting link established between the present and the time when our deceased Fellow was active in the affairs of the College. All the portraits on these walls form such connecting links. Dr. Packard came of an old family. His ancestors, the Hookers, were founders of Springfield, Massachusetts, and his father came to Philadelphia early in the history of this city. Dr. Packard was born in Philadelphia, and he had that advantage implied in the paradoxical expression, "If we could only select our progenitors, what a race of intellectual giants we would become!" He came of a family occupying a prominent position in society. He had that fortune which few men have of having been born a gentleman. He was a gentleman by birth and by education. Dr. Packard was born in 1832 and died in the year 1907. He was graduated from the Department of Arts of the University of Pennsylvania in 1850. To graduate from the Department of Arts at that time seemed to convey more than at the present. 1Presentation address by Dr. Riohnrd H. Harto, on behalf of the donor, Dr. Francis R. Packard, May 2, 1917. chapter{Section 4Now, young men go through a course in college and often seem to be inefficient. Only a short time ago this was demonstrated in a graduate who did not know tha...« less