Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1841-03-02
EXERCISES At THE RICHMOND MEDICAL co,

LEGE.
Yesterday was the day for comforting the degree
o. NJ. ID. upon the young gentlemen who graduated
the session just closed. By ~ o'clock, the spacious
Lecture Room OF the College was crow led 10 ex-
cess with an intelligent audience 10 which the pre-
sence OF some hundred or more ladies' gave brillian
ey and beauty. Soon after the appointed hour the
FACULTY entered the room headed by the President
oil Hampton Sidney College, the Governor and Sc
yeral gentlemen Of the CI,rgy, and followed by the
Graduates, whose crimsOned checks told that thew
pore The honor about 10 be conferred upon them
with modesty that shrinks from public gaze.
The Exercises were opened with prayer by the
Kew. T. l.. Magoon, after which the degree of NJ. u.
was conferred upon the following gentlemen by
President Maxwell, viz: VIM. A. Tom Of Culpeper,
VIM. White of Norfolk County; F d. Martin Of N.
Carolina; Otis F. Manson, Richmond; Tn. Pollard,
Hanover; James r. Trueheart, Richmond; w. r.
Young, Caroline; p. II. Christian, Amherst; A. n.
Hall, Petersburg; w. o. Farrar, Alabama: J.. C,
Massie, Amherst; w. l.. Williams, AIbemarle: s.
Dudley, Chesterfield; J. S. Trbble, Essex; VIII.
Macon, Hanover; Straughan s. Henley, King and
Queen; Henry Latham, Lynchburg; and VIM. H..
Denny, Richmond. Also, honorary degree Of M. ID.
on Bartholomew Esan of Henry county.
After comforting the honors, Mr. Maxwell deliy-
cred Griei, yet chaste and impressive address TO
the young gentlemen. eongratulating them upon
their new Distinction and invoking them as labor
ers in the vast science of medicine not TO lter bv
the way. Their studies rather than being at an
end, had barely begun. The way had only been
pointed out to uem-the theory had been given
'hem' upon which they were TO improve by ex-
perlenee and their studies. They must bear home
with them the motto "labor ipse voluptas.D
In the course Of Mr. Maxwoll's remarks, sneak.
ing Of the duty Of citizens, and warning the young
gentlemen against tho brawling demagogues Of the
Court green's he was interrupted with rapturous an
plnuse by the audience while paying tribute 10 ono
oflho distinguished Alumni Of the College over which
he presided, whom the nation had just elevated 10
the highest station 10 is gif. lie said, 'ibat from
the days Of Luclfsr to Napoleon, no man had been
trusted with power who had not abused it-saye
Washington" mo man woudn--"I will recall
this" says he. "Yesl may we not hope, that that
august and distinguished individual who has recent
y been called 10 preside over this great Republic
will make another exception, and he q second
Washington J"
DR.. Augustus l.. Warner closed the exercises
with valedictory which would enrich the pages
ofany work. To auomp, a sketch Of it, would bo
to rob the boquet Of its most beautiful flower.
The Colleges now in 6pe condition, and il IS
pointed out to tho stranger as one ofthe Lionsu Of
our city. The Editor Of the Lynchburg Virgininn
paid the following compliment to the college in one
OF his recent letters from Richmond:
"ThS morning, visited, as one Of a com nittee
appointed for that purpose, the Medical College
in this place, which, amgod TO say, is in flourish
ing condition, and which, II properly sustained, as
Il should be, will before long become the pride Of
the State, IL has able faculty, and a considora
bic number Of students arc In attendance upon liz
Lectures. Attached to the College s an Inarnary
in which number Of patients are accommodated
in rooms admirably adapted TO their comfort. and
with al means and appliances 10 aid in hei, re-.
covoty. observed, gliding softly from one room,
to another, several Of that selfdenying order the
Sisters Of Charity, who, emphalically rsnouneioo
the world, dedicate their lives to tho relief ofs.a.s.
ing humanity. They devote their whole tim. 70 m.
sick, nursing them with patient assiduitv. and =
wa'ehiu vigilance, which eanno, be oxcelled bv The
anxious tenderness even Of parental and conin0o
affection"