April, 1923
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he is a banker as well, for years connected, as vice pFesident or otherwise, with the upbuilding of the Corn Exchange Bank and its new and original system of branch banking-now being imitated by other banking institutions. Has such a varied and useful career led on to wealth? Most assuredly it has, but his has been a wealth created in the service of the community, in which the community gained more than he. As we are talking behind Dr. Nichols’ back, we might ask ourselves-have all these successes been unmarred by the making of mistakes? I think not; Dr. Nichols is too broadminded a man not to admit his occasional mistakes. But an associate once said of him, “I would rather follow Nichols right and wrung than any other man always right.” The reason is obvious. His sum of successful accomplish&ent was far greater than that
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of the man lacking in vision, always taking the safe, inglorious, and unprogressive course, who could make no mistakes. Finally, it may be asked-after so much accomplishment what has Dr. Nichols done to perpetuate his work and carry it forward? He has two able sons who are guiding two of the important branches of it; and it was he who picked out the very remarkable man chosen as president of the Allied Chemical & Dye Corporation. Should any ask what may be the other faults of a man so gifted, I would answer, “They shall not be written down here.” I love the man too well to publish his faults if I knew themand I am not the one to know them. CHARLES ROBINSON SMITH
Obituary Wa ter Stanley Ha nes
teaching. To further show the high esteem in which Dr. Haines was held, they started an endowment fund for the library at Rush Medical College, to be known as the “Walter S. Haines Fund.” An oil painting of him hangs in the college where he taught. His whole life was spent in assisting others, which is exemplified in the following:
Walter Stanley Haines, professor (beloved teacher of students) a t Rush Medical College since 1876, died on January 27, 1923, at the Presbyterian Hospital, from bronchiectasis complicated with chronic nephritis. Dr. Haines was born September 27, 1850, in Chicago. His father, It is for my students, however, that is reserved the warmest place in my John G. Haines, was for two terms heart and the largest measure of my mayor of the city. Dr. Haines thought. I have seen more than six attended the Chicago High School, thousand five hundred of them go graduating first in his class, and forth to every state of this nation, to nearly every town of this land and in then attended the Massachusetts almost every country of the globe, Institute of Technology from 1869 to give comfort to the sick and to to 1871. While there he fell ill with stay the hand of the fell destroyerpleurisy and was compelled to give to teach, to investigate, and to make great :discoveries. My one fondest up his work; since then he suffered hope is that perhaps I have done a constantly with a lung disturbance. little to prepare them for that work In 1871 Dr. Haines entered the and that possibly I have helped Chicago Medical College, from which them, even though slightly, in their splendid careers. he graduated in 1873. Even before WALTER STANLEY HAINES his graduation he showed great promAn able teacher, he kept in close contact with his students, ise his chosen field, and was offered the chair of chemistry in his Alma Mater while still a student, holding the position from 1872 showing a keen and sympathethic interest in all that concerned to 1876. During this period, having completed his medical them. Both faculty and students have lost a valuable adviser education, he served an interneship in Mercy Hospital and spent and ardent friend. His politeness and refinement in speech and several months in Europe in study. I n 1876 he was called to manner should be emulated by more of us. Each time one came the chair of chemistry in Rush Medical College, where he taught in contact with him one carried away some useful information. His influence for good over the student body was far-reaching. for forty-six years. This made fifty years of teaching in medical There is no one who can fill in the hearts of the students colleges. It was his great ambition to round out fifty years of and alumni the place left vacant by “Daddy Haines,” as he was teaching at Rush Medical College. Twenty years ago, when Rush Medical College became affili- familiarly known t o thousands of alumni. Dr. Haines was a member of the Committee of Revision of ated with the University of Chicago, the entrance requirements of the United States Pharmacopeia from 1900 to 1920, has been medical students were raised to include general chemistry. From that time on Dr. Haines was director of materia medica professorial lecturer of toxicology, University OF Chicago, and toxicology and devoted all his time to the teaching of these since 1901, member of the Illinois State Food Commission subjects. Dr. Haines was known nationally by the medical since 1909, member of the American Medical Society, Chemical profession as a chemist and toxicologist. He was the expert Society of London, American Medical Association, and Chicago witness €or the state in many of the famous murder cases where Medical Society and American Chemical Society. He was the poison was the instrument of death. As a witness he was ad- author of a “Text Book of Legal Medicine and Toxicology,” chapters on alkaloidal poison in Hamilton’s “System of Legal mired and respected by court and counsel wherever he was heard. Last summer the alumni of Rush Medical College presented Medicine,” 1894; reviser of Purdy’s “Practical Urinalysis and Urinary Diagnosis,” 1901. WM. D. MCNALLY Dr. Haines with a gold watch in testimony of his fifty years of
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