A. Stewart MNL‘DUHII/tf D.F.C., M.D. C..M. 
     
    
   
   
    
     letter of admission to Dalhousie Medical School, which I 
     
     would consider one of the high points of life. I would be 
     
     remiss not to mention the great help and encouragement 
     
     of Gordon Bennett in Chemistry and Warren Duchman, for 
     
     his excellent teaching in Anatomy, which held me in good 
     
    

    
     ‘ standing through my years in Medicine. 
     
    
   
   
    
     THIRD YEAR 
     
    
   
   
    
     After teaching for two years, one as a Second Class 
     
     and one as a First Class teacher, I hoped to take third 
     
     year to obtain my first pre-med year. This was during the 
     
     midst of Depression, where every cent counted. Two of 
     
     my former pupils, one being my sister, were attending first 
     
     year. Little did I know what the future would bring, and 
     
     that I would enter the service in the Royal Canadian Air 
     
     Force, and return some 13 years later. I must admit that 
     
     in third year I made my worst showing in my four years 
     
     in Prince of Wales College. I barely passed and did not 
     
     get a certificate. That year there were 404 students with 
     
     35 students in third year. In 1934 - 1935 it was reported 
     
     that there was a bad outbreak of measles that year at 
     
     Christmas, which caused some difficulty at exam time. 
     
    

    
     One of the students in my class, Gordon Bennett, 
     
     became my favourite Chemistry teacher in the fourth year 
     
     in Prince of Wales College. My desk mate in Biology was 
     
     none other than Frank (Sprague) MacMillan who had 
     
     taught me in my first and second year. I actually found 
     
     him to be human, with a good sense of humour. I later 
     
     served with him in the Militia and we were always good 
     
     friends following our seat-mate days. 
     
    

    
     The teachers attributed the many student failures to 
     
     such factors as hearing conditions, and getting acquainted 
     
     to the city life, but no such allowances were made when 
     
    
   
   
    
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