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variety of goods moved into and out of great steamers or tall
sailing vessels, at this river entrep6t only such simple home
products as tobacco, coal, and cotton were in transport. It was
like an overgrown small town, and American through and
through.
I went some eight or nine blocks from the station to West
Chestnut Street and the City Hospital, of which the Hospital
School of Medicine was an affiliated part. I presented myself
without delay to the dean, Dr. P. Richard Taylor, and delivered
my letter of introduction from Dr. Burnside. I waited in a
suspenseful silence. Thoughtfully Dr. Taylor looked at me, a
very serious, full-mouthed young man, as I see myself in old
photographs, wearing pince-nez, a high, unfolded collar like a
stock coming up under my chin, and a cravat of watered black
silk, my only presentable one.
Dr. Taylor gave me a smile of encouragement and quietly
suggested that I should, indeed, have to have one more year of
preparation. Solemnly I nodded. How lavish then I was with the
years! Dr. Taylor now recommended that I spend this year at a
little college in Danville, like his medical school, of Presbyterian
connection. It was seventy miles or so downstate in Boyle
County. So, with still another letter safely in my pocket, I
boarded a Southern Railway train and got to Danville the fol-
lowing afternoon. The town had only four thousand people in
it. I had no trouble finding the men's campus on the so-called
West Side.
The college which I now entered, since its founding in 1819,
or thereabouts, had been called Centre College of Kentucky,
but that very year its name had been changed to Central Uni-
versity. In 1918, I might add, the name was again altered, this
time reverting simply to Centre College, with the last two
words of the original title omitted. It is, of course, the same
little school made famous, in the twenties, by the football team
which, with Bo McMillen, beat then mighty Harvard. Even
today its total enrollment is only about four hundred, of whom
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Atkinson, Donald Taylor. Texas Surgeon: an Autobiography, book, 1958; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth143566/m1/78/: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting University of Texas Health Science Center Libraries.