The sentiment to which I have been invited to respond on this pleasant occasion is a timely and important one. My friend and colleague, Professor Fenger, who is our honored guest this evening, has reached his sixtieth birthday, and we are assembled around this festive board to tender our congratulations and to wish him many years of usefulness in the interests of our profession and humanity. It is an easy matter to eulogize the dead, it must be a source of great and lasting satisfaction to receive the recognition and encomiums from competing colleagues during the prime of life, as in the case of our guest. Professor Fenger needs no introduction. His name and fame are known wherever modern surgery is practiced.
Science is an exacting and jealous mistress.
She detests pretension and illogical, immature conclusions. She loves and honors the truth. She ignores nationality, creed, politics, and social position. She plucks her golden treasures from all available sources. She demands from her devotees earnestness, honesty, perseverance, unselfishness.