Medicine: Patriarch's Party

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When he was moving his office last year the moving men found a great pyramid of books in a corner of his old office. As the books were taken away, corners of a desk appeared under the pile, finally a whole desk. Dr. Welch was surprised; confessed that he had lost the desk several years before.

There is on record only one unfavorable remark by "Popsy" Welch about another human being. Years ago he was told of a highly disparaging remark made about his colleague Dr. Osler by a Continental scientist. A few years later Dr. Welch was asked to express an opinion about the detractor. For a long time he hesitated, then mumbled in a hesitating voice that he must be "a terrible person."

When old Johns Hopkins men revisit their school, or when callers come from foreign lands, they enter the great limestone Italian Renaissance library through its bronze doors, climb a flight of stairs, see a bronze bust of Dr. Welch on the landing, climb on to the second floor and in the Great Hall see John Singer Sargent's portrait of the Four Founders—a huge canvas glowing with rich reds, symbolical of a great nation's medical cornerstone.