By Land and By Air

doctors during my career. One of the classes was Chemistry in which I had a mark of 89 in Prince of Wales College and the studies were very similar. I figured I could make 100. I never was so pleased when I finished an examination. I answered all the questions and I figured, with all the examinations I had corrected in school and high school, that I had written a perfect paper, but when I got it back, the mark was 58%, one of the lowest marks I ever made. I went back to him and he said it was an 85% paper, but I did not explain my answer enough. I still wonder what he meant. I was glad to finish first year in Dalhousie.

We had chicken on Sundays with all the trimmings, Mondays and Tuesdays cold chicken, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays chicken soup. I travelled on the street-cars with a week’s pass for a dollar, and we used it to go for groceries on the week-ends.

All I recall of the first couple of years was our Anatomy professor, who was all for statistics and who later went to New York to teach art. Our next professor had the advantage of an extra degree as an artist, and he could go to the board and draw such things as the heart in layers.

One of the teachers, Dr. Graham, was one of the crankiest doctors I ever met. In teaching applied Anatomy, one day he was telling the students how they differed from his studies; they were not interested in getting a skeleton for their office. He was teaching about the head and when he looked around, the head was gone. He was standing in front of me and said ”This class is a bunch of thieves”

- the only one he could clear was me. A month later he was called on the telephone to go to his back door and he would get the head. They had a note on it, saying that it was as empty as his own - he was madder than ever.

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