Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-22

Rev. Mr.. Parish The address to the grad
uating class was delivered by Prof. George
Barnes, NJ. D. We append a synopsi: of
DIR. BARNES DISCOURSE.
After making certain preliminary state
meDts, he said
We know that the medical man in enter
ing upon his professional career has many
disheartening things to contend with. We
know that he often has to travel on "a long.
a rough and a weary road" and that his
early struggles will illustrate
"what rugged places lie between
Adventurous virtues early tolls,
Aud her triumphal throne"
But do not for q moment credit the fiction
that either fame or fortune can be acquired
without laborious toll. There is no
royal road" 70 professional eminence,
and, although money NAV be
amGsssed by imposing on the eredulity
of the unlearned in medicine, and substi-
tuting tricks for science, yet, to every right
thinking man, wealth so obtained is indeed
"flthy lucre, " for il is obtained at the ex-
pense of character.
Although they who have watched the
progress Of men to fortune know full well
how much Of their success and their popu-
larity is often due to the skiliful manage
ment of these auxiliary means; although it
requires no great penetration 10 perceive
that the vast difference in the amount ofthe
favors vouchsafed by fortune to her different
v~otaries must be account d for in some other
waythan by the amount Of professional talent
possessed by each yet there should always
exist in the mind of the medical man a
contempt for those minor tactics which con-
stitute 80 large a part of what has been
aptly termed "rising in the world"
The men who M their career
under the most favorable auspices, and with
the most hattering prospects of success do
not always obtain the greatest eminence.
There is such q thing as a man depending
too much upon his means and too little upon
himself. Small certainties, it has been OBJ
served, are often the ruin Of men.
A celebrated English judge, on being
asked what contributed most to success az
the bar, replied: Some succeed by great
talent, some by high connections, some by
a miracle, but the majority by commencing
without a shilling.
1t has been said, "The man is yet unborn
who duly weighs an hour"
A celebrated German astronomer onoe re-
marked that he had uniformly studied
fourteen hours out of the twenty four
with but one exception, and that exception
occurred On the day of his marriage, and
on that day he studied but cieuen hours. But
in order TO regain the three hours thus lost,
he rose next morning three hours earlier
han usual and resumed his studies.
While cultivating industriously a more
extended knowledge of prevailing princi-
Piles and practice Of medicine, it is commen-
dable that you should still further ~acquaint
yourselves with the history and progress
of opinion among the medical sages Of form
or times. Much good has undoubtly resulted
from inquiries of this nature eve into the
crudities Of the past. TIL man who is con-
versant with medical history must be aware
how often time and talents have been mis-
| spent, not only in defence of deceptive
theories and modes of practice,
| but in the account of alleged discoveries,
| once supposed to be valuable, but long ago
exploded as unimportant and useless. 1t IS
not only necessary, therefore, TO be &C
quaiuted with principles which obtain for
the time being, but atleast to have some no
ton of the views which regulated the treat
ment of diseases in past ages, else, like the
mill-horse we work in e circle, tread the same
ground over and over again and leave mat
ters where found them. Without this knowl-
edge q practitioner, however wide the
range of his personal experience, must ever
remain only half informed for although
medicine is perhaps beyond all other arts
and sciences essentially practical, and books
without experience in disease can never
form the real physician, yet the most valu-
| able deductions are those which are CON
irmed by an extensive comparison of the
present with the past-of what is seen with
what is read.
Gentlemen: We part with you with reluc-
lance. We part, however, as it becomes
men who have pressing duties before them.
1 We V.arf 10 anfor r11nnn tho rrgaf lufTne ~
life and to carry out the final causes of our
being. 1t is an elevated sentiment to know
that you are prepared to answer the inten-
tions of Providence in his greatest dispen-
sations Of benevOlence to suffering human
ity. With what ardor, then, should you
strive to enlarge the boundaries of your
noble science, nor leave one effort unat-
tempted which may promise q new fact for
the great cause of humanity. With what
gratitude should you contemplate the power
which you have acquired over the suffer
iugs and wretchedness of your fellow man.
Believing that your aspirations are directed
TO a higher and more enduring object than
the attainment Of an ephemeral reputation,
and hat you are anxious to secure to your
selves IN honorable distinction in the pro-
fession to which you are about to dedicate
your lives, allow me, in behalf Of my asso-
ciates, to assure you of the devoted and sin
cero interest which the faculty feel in your
behalf. Your welfare will ever be with us
4 cardinal object. The seal Of this institu-
ton will soon be conided to your custody /;
it will, l feel assured, suffer no dishonor in
your hands. And if this college is to main
tain her present position it can only be
done through the testimony eff her alumni.
You stand enrolled among her sons, and
having fulfilled her requirements you are
about TO receive the highest privilege she
can confer on worth. These you viii re-
ceive with her benedictions and her ardent
wishes for your success n happiness. Il
now only remains for me to bid you an affec-
Tomato farewell.
On the conclusion Of tho Professors ad-
dress, the names of the class were called by
the Registrar of the college, AMI the grad
yates took their places in front to receive
from the President of the College, J &C. San
ders, NJ. D., their diplomas which conferred
on them, severally, the degrse of Doctor of
Medicine. The regular class numbered
thirty-four members. Their names and
residence are as follows,
E. 7. Adams, Canada; T. r. Allen, Cana
ds; W. P. Burge, Ohio; II. F. Biggar, Cana
ds; II. B. Cross, Mass Samuel Cowles, Ohio;
L. D.. Clark, Wis, E. B. De LaMatyr, Wis;
II. 7. F. Gatchell, Wis; A. Hayward, Mich.
J. A. Hall, Canada; j. R. Moody, Ohio; E.
C. Morrill,, Ohio: L. W. Pratt, Pa. L. D.
Roberts, Ill; W. G. Scott, Canada; J. G.
Schmidt, Sweden; W. p. Armstrong, Ohio;
G. D. Allen, Mich; d. z. Badger, Ohio; John
Bryan, Pa; j. NJ: Cadmus, N. Y; VIM.
Clark, Ohio; j. A. Compton. N. Y; E. Ora
ham, Mich; 6. c. Hubbard, N. Y; P. S. Hol-
lett, n. Y; B.. F. Jackson, Canada; J. D.
McCresry, Pa; Louis Marrett, La; H. Z.
Powell, Canada; J. W. Scott, N. Y; NJ. C.
Sturtevant, Wis; Wm. G. Ware, Mass,
The harmony degree of NJ. D. was con-
ferred upon the following gentlemen E. A.
Lodge, Mich: P. ]. Liedbeek, Sweden;
Thomas Bryan, Pa.
This ceremony over, President Sanders
proceeded to address them a few fitting
words of counsel with regard to the profess
sion upon the practice and the discharge of
the duties of which they lave just entered.
There is enc requisite, he said, which is alb
solutely essential to success, namely, an ar
dent, passionate love for their calling. 1t
must operate in them like a divine inspira-
ton. This doctrine was unfolded in an elo-
quent mi He spoke earnestly on the
importance of watchfulness that this pas
sion or zeal suffer no loss. The practitioner,
in tagging moments, may stimulate him
self by considerations of tho illimitable
field of knowledge and possibility in
which he is engaged. The medical