1930–31 Volume 55 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

THE SCROLLPHI DELTA THETA October, 1930just past, he has been more or less intimatelyassociated with the famed Dr.Harvey Gushing, probably the greatestneurological surgeon in the country.Horrax spent his early life inMontclair, New Jersey, summering ina small Connecticut village. He completeda very active college course atWilliams in 1909 during which he hadbeen on the track team for four years,two of them as captain, had playedvarsity basketball, been a class president.Christian Association president,and member of three successive classsocieties. A trip to Europe via cattlesteamer during the summer followinggraduation eventually took him to theHartz Mountains where he spent thegreater part of the time picking upa speaking knowledge of the Germanlanguage.In the fall of 1909 Brother Horraxentered the Johns Hopkins MedicalSchool where he finished four yearslater thirteenth in a class of eighty.His interneship was spent at the PeterBent Brigham Hospital at Bostonwhere his association with Dr. Gushingfirst began. One year was spent asa fellow in Harvard Medical Schooland two years in France attached to anAmerican base hospital. He enteredthe service as a first lieutenant andwas discharged in April, 1919, as major.Most of the time since the warBrother Horrax has served as neurologicalsurgeon in various Boston hospitalsand also in faculty and administrativepositions in the HarvardMedical School. He has contributednumerous articles on surgery to! variousmedical journals and holds membershipin a number of scientific societies.Continuing our circuit of the countrywe eventually come to Jacksonville,Florida, where we may stop to meetone of the leading dermatologists ofthe South, Joseph Lee Kirby-Smith,Sewanee, '99, a son of the famousConfederate general, E. Kirby-Smith.After twenty years of soldiering GeneralKirby-Smith devoted his life tothe teaching of mathematics, becominga professor at Sewanee. Here BrotherKirby-Smith received his education,here he was initiated in TennesseeBeta in 1899, here he finished withhighest honors from the Medical Departmentin 1906. For three years,following 1899, he had been in the departmentof science at the University.His undergraduate days were busy andstrenuous ones. He played five yearsas left tackle on the football team,gaining the captaincy and recognitionas all-Southern tackle.After graduation in medicine BrotherKirby-Smith devoted four yearsto the special study of dermatology inNew York, being connected with anumber of well known hospitals andclinics for skin diseases. For the pasttwenty years he has given his time toPROMINENT PHYSICIANS WHO ARE PHISGREER BAUGH-MAN, Virginia, '93J. EDWIN BROWNOhio Wesleyan, '84J. L. KIRBY-SMITHSewanee, '06McCLUNEY RAD-CLIFFE. Lafayette'77.[40]