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EVENING PUBLIC LED0ERr-.PHILADELPHIA; WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1922
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Spent Summer Vacations in
Soft-Ceal Mines and Sailed
Sea in Cattle Beats
llWAN students have weed their way through the University of Penn
11" svlvenia.
But it is extremely doubtful if any ene has had a mere remarkable
leareer than Rebert D. Cadman, a senior in the Medical Scheel. He has
Bought every inch of the way for seven yeans.
Everything that a college man can de te earn money he has done. He
Ilis suffered and sacrificed cheerfully for the sake of a college education.
He has even sold his own life's bleed te pay hta expenses.
Six tlme3 since school started this year he has given his bleed for
ensfusien operations. Without sentiment or sentimentality, he gees te
he medical laboratories and takes his bleed count If he finds a sufficient
Lumber of red corpuscles he agrees te submit te the operation. Other-
riie he waits until the number comes up te par.
In a case of emergency, he gave his bleed twice within two weeks.
his is all the mere remarkable when it is considered that last winter
he suffered a breakdown and was in the University Hospital -for mere than
i month with pneumonia.
"I guess I have tried about overy-
ing there is in the way of odd
obi," Cadman exclaimed without the
ightcst trace of boasting. "I
erked three summers in a soft-coal
ine. That was a dirty job, all
ight
"During the fall of 1914 I had it
ugh. I walked the streets et
Wladelphia for two whole weeks
oeking for work and there was none
9 be had. Finally I landed seme-
ing. I don't recall just what it
as, but it saved the day. Other-
se I would have had te give up
y college course.
"Generally speaking, though, I
nve discovered that a fellow can
ways find something te de if he
ants it badly enough. If you are
lungry and you don't knew where
our next meal is coming from, you
Ml hustle around. When you get
eel hungry, you will take most any
thing.
"I have gene into restaurants
Eiany a time and offered te wash
lahes or scrub the fleer for a meal
ad they have never refused me.
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delphia. There's nothing like va-rlety.
"I was a bouncer in a Negro res-
Uurant for a while. That was en-
ertaining. Then I turned te writ-
ng. I was campus reporter for sev-
leral newspapers. I wrete some fic-
len and actually sold it. I'm afraid
t wasn't very high-class literature.
But these stories were thrillers.
"Heaven only knows hew many
fens of coal I have shoveled into
ellars and hew many tens of ashes
have shoveled out of furnaces that
have tended since I entered cel-ege.
"Fer a time I had a job as an as-
iatant pharmacist in a drug store
W the strensrth of the chemistry I
(bad taken in college.
This is the way I have fitrured it
t: If you don't knew all about a
thing when you apply for a job,
you'll SOOIl learn thn vp. f vnii
have any bruins nr nhitifu f nil
"One cummer I went out West
nl worked in the Dakota wheat
fields. I had a chance te get seme
'nd in Mentana for fifty cents an
We and for a while I thought I
would give up medicine and settle
oewn as a farmer. But I seen ave
UP that idea.
made Several Trips
Abroad en Cattle Beats
I have had mv nhnra f 0mii
oe--maps, aluminum ware , books
nd brushes.
0 go back tO mv ilnvs In Mn4li.
ttmberland-I clerked in u grocery
ere and sold newspapers for a long
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diflferent times. I earned my
age te south America one sum
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Se as a boy of oevcntepn Cedmnn
appeared nt the office of admissions of
the University in the fall of 1013.
There be met his first una. His cn cn
trnnre requirements were net altogether
satisfactory. He lacked one unit In
mathematics. Only four days remained
"They just happened te ask me the
questions I had studied." This rranrk
was characteristic. He speaks of oil his
experiences In an abselulely impersonal
manner.
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partment of the University. After ar
ranging his roster with all the wow
they would permit him te carry, he
went around te individual professors
and asked them if he might attend
their lectures. Tbey hesitated at first,
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bad te scour around and find something
te ue.
But that did net prevent him from
taking part in nthletlen. He had
Played football a little In high school.
When he cntPred Penn he went out with
the (quad and in his second and third
j cars played en the second team.
Wrestled, Boxed, Swam
and Taught Beys' Class
He also wrestled, boxed and bwnre.
Am he found time te take charge et
a boys' class in a settlement beuse in
Seuth Philadelphia. There he taught
them manual training and various
games.
, I never missed a single Shakes
pearean performance during my whole
i freshman year," he said. "I used te
go te me I'nilauelphla Orchestra regu
larlyin fact. I still de."
During the summer vacation follow
ing his freshman year, he attended a
T. M. C. A. conference at Eagles Mere,
Pa. Mere than 800 college men from
Kastern and Middle Atlantic States
were there.
The Ber. Jehn R. Hart, Jr., the
Episcopal secretary of the Chrlstlnn
AsKoeiiitien at the University, said the
ether day: "Cadman steed out among
nil these men at the conference. That
was the first time he had come di
rectly te our notice. He hhewed far
mere insight, mure depth of thought
and a greater intellectual curiosity
than any of the ether biudents there."
One of the meet nremlntnt mnnLm
I of the cellese faculty remembered Cad-
i man s uerk In his clnss sis years nge.
"J have never known a mere remark
able man en the campus a man who
has had a richer, broader, and deeper
experience in life a man who has done
mere things for himself. His papers
; were absolutely Individual. Ue always
niu wum ue tneugni regardless or the
cost te himself."
At the beginning of his fourth year
Cadman left college, crossed the bor
der and enlisted in the Canadian cav
alry. That was in the fall of IMG
wuen the outlook wai darkest. He
rved with the Canadian forces until
the Lnlted States entered the war.
Then he was transferred te the
American Aviation Cerps and trained
at Kelly Held near .Sun Antonie,
TeXL AildSF." trial fl'Kt his plane
crashed 2000 feet te the ground. He
was net seriously injured, altheuch his
eyes were affected se that he had te
give up Hying.
Saw War Service as
Flier and Artilleryman
Frem aviation he was transferred
te light artillery and shipped back te
.,nc?J: , ,llc Rftw nctlve service
until the armistice was signed
I played guard en the Southeastern Dl-
yisiuii cumuiurinyiiiii loettmll team On
this team were a number of former Ml
American playerc.
He became wrestlini r1m,i.. i
tUnP"i,.c?!ar rM w;',,le he was nt
ikcii.y tviui iiirr ne
tiveu te use tlie machines. That
was amusing if net especially lucra
tive. "Heb" Cadman Is the son of n
preacher. His father was n Methodist
missionary In the heart of Africa for
mere than twenty years.
Ills uncle, his father's half-brother,
is H, Parke Cadmun, the celebrated
Brooklyn preacher and lecturer.
Cadman was born in a leg cabin en
tee outskirts of a mining camp in Cen
II 0,m r, "I tee euusina or a mining camp in Cen-
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Twe views of Renert Cadman at
work gratifying hin life ambition
te become a physician
He attended high school nt Northum
bcrland. At an early age be began.
working as a brcuker-bey in the coal
mines. During his summer vacations
he actually went down into the mines
and worked.
Before he was twelve he decided te
become a doctor. As he naively puts
It, "I wanted te be a doctor because
my father was a preacher I"
lie could have had u scholarship in a
small Methodist college, but he madt
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daunted, be bought a trigonometry book
and set about mastering it. He waded
through it and get 100 In the eiaralna.
tlen. "That 100 was Just luck." be
declared with a smlle as .be .recalled it.
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whlrcw their objections.
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S'ln.6 University he had exactly
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Tramped Siuth
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Husky MedicalSen-
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Children
"Rebert Cadman has the finest mind
of any man I have met en theticampus,"
asserts the Rcr. K. Guy Cutsball,
Methodist secretary of the Christian
Association. "He thinks irfi terras et
principles. He also gees ln the de
tails. There you have the perfect com
bination. Chese His Vocation
te Help WeakChildrcn
"He has a most altruistic viewpoint.
He told me ence why he chose medicine
as a profession. He wants te help chil
dren who are weak and frail te get nil
there is out of life. That Ls the reason
be Is going te specialize in pediatrics
after be graduates from the medical
school.
"He is strongly nen-sectnrlan. but
he believes firmly In applied Chris
tianity," Dr. Cutshall added. "He hn-
done wonderful work nt the settlement
house. I cannot, for the life of me, ice
hew he accomplishes se much."
Cadman was one of the two student
doctors who looked after the nches and
pains of the kiddles at Camp Happy at
Terresdnle last summer. The camp Is
maintained for undernourished children
by the Philadelphia Health Council and
Tuberculosis Committee In conjunrtlen
with the Department of Public Welfare.
Cadman resembles in no way the pro
verbial studious type. He is husky. He
does net wear bone-rimmed spectacles
with thick lenses. He Is net a pale
face. His shoulders are bread and h
walks with a military stride. His eyes
are bright and his jaw firm. Determina
tion, independence and endurance an
tamped en his face.
In spite of the fact that he attends
school days ami works nights, he never
becomes physically tired.
"I have geno for seventeen day
without regular deep, just snatching
0 .5!ou',0 hours here and there," hu
Mid. "I de suffer from nervousness ami
thut upsets my digestion. Then I cut
out rating altogether.
"It was because I went for a year
with only one square meal a day that
1 had a breakdown last year. Dut I
had a month', rest In the hospital ami
new I fwl no strong as ever.
"The two subjects which interested
me most during my undergraduate days
were Knglish literature and history.
I started in early reading every thin;
i could lay my handH en. M fmhnr
encouraged me te start a library. Be I
gathered books here nnd there wherever
1 happened te be and sent them home.
I guess I took all the English
courses that I could fit Inte mv roster.
There is no one particular type of lit
erature that I especially prefer. I
read a geed many novels.
Likes European Novelists
Better Than American
"European novelists appeal te ma
mere than de the American. I nm
especially fend of H. O. Wells. Geerge
Meredith and Anatole France. Amer
ican writers eS the present day worry
altogether tee much about the form
and utterly neglect the matter. TIu
rent European novelists like Franca
nnd Meredith show jeu something bc
Mdc surfaces. Tbey penetrate deep
nnd really portray character."
On the table in Cadman's room there
arc a variety of pipes. Alw a variety
et books. elume,i en anatomy, pathol
ogy, pediatrics -find kindred subjects,
a novel in German and a magaslne in
Spanish, ne Las at odd mementa
picked up reading knowledge et
crunch, German and Spanish.
He learned Spanish when he spent a
summer vacation in Seuth America
selling typewriters.
German he picked up In school and
In Germany after the armlHtire.
hen he wUB n high school he rigred
up the first radio net that was owned
n his neighborhood. That was long
beiere radio became popular There
were no concerts being broadcast In
dasK-9 r iaj8JuBt b'rnlghtdetH and
He faw a photograph In a newspaper
of the airplane In which the Wright
w?te inndc ,h.cil; lnl,lal
Without plans pr denignH of any kind
he made a small model of the airplane
And It worked. His father nlwars en
couraged him te make things. He spent
hla time as eer.v normal American boy
does in his workshop '
Before he was twelve years old ht
started out te see the world. Il
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came te Ids rescue. "If he can't tal
care of himself he wnn'i . .. ,"
rnd If he can he will be all "right."
father dee l.inil. .
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He with $1 17 In hla pocket he net out
;. see his native State. That only kin
led h H aunet In for inn-.. ... "V.1
,-rite poetry. Here is n poem Lhe !lm.e J" entered Penn as a freahin,f,
f1Ui?L"Aed i,n '". Bhymer, 1 h;' ''! bwn te England, Spain Snd
of Pennsylvania Verne" for I Italv. ' " unu
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1020. It was edited by Dr. Cernel us
JNegandt, professor of English at the
University : .
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when l, ,.. te Ntudvlnc. He Marled
i.i. "" i " 'rearnnan year.
, but he found that they were a hfn-
quently he threw away his notibeoks
and relied altogether upon IiIh memory
In class he listens attentively nnd
makes mental neten f the lilghllihts In
the lectures Then he tries t, K1 M
all related facts en a subject In hli
mind. ""
The only time he actuallv studies is
when he Is out of n job for a week
Then hr rends metllclnn for ,,r
twelve hours nt a stretch. When la
finds something te de be puts awai t ha
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