The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-03-13

do now rest from their abors" and 70 provide for /
older communities, where growth is slow, as well as
fLs the younger where increase 10 rapld-prOvecuou
in time Of danger.
You go out as guards of your coup'-r While
scientists OF are sometimes r" oed "a nrotec-
tors, you are always in demo Tssy DESTROY
true, they destroy 10 save or ought only to do
but you shall save, w.,nout destroying.
must ''Wsrs worthy Of W your vocation" charge as
Valo and AS binding upon You TINS day Ia Your pro-
those who protested the doctrines Of our blessed
Christianity Stand up for the truth Wnich you pro-
come: for there are sects OF irregular medicine
pathes, and isms, and pretensions mutifOd; auto
Gepaous sspe Of ali on the % ser ~
a head not OF your own creation, is over you the
science Of medcinel Aud native citizen owes
allt glance TO the government under which he is
born, so do you Owe, to that science under which
your professional life has begun, partisanship
most absolute; aud while you maintain the truth,
maintain also the dignity and the ercIustUeness OF
When you meet with those who are delbded from
the right way by some will-othe wisp, or are given
over TO believe lie," are perverted by solfinte-
rest and so profess and practice any of the false
systems OF medicine, or any Of the perversons OF
the true-deal with them personally with that cour-
tesy Of which a gentleman should never fail; but
professionally touch them not. Give professional
place to tbem-DO not for a moment; counsel not
with them under any circumstance. There can be
no profitable conference, for there can be no com.
promise betgeen truth and error
Gentlemen, you, others gone before, have
reach6 the close Of your medical puptlsge, but
the past you have studied the cadavre; you have
listened to oral instructions, fortified more or less
by physical demonstration, and you have pondered
the teachings Of those who have described disease
and Temedy In printed words. Henceforth you are
to study the living man, to listen 10 tbe cry OF his
suffering organs, 10 ponder the expressions OF his
disorders, and 10 witness, TO examine, ami TO Judge
Of thc action OF your remedies.
While passing through the crowded city street, or
along the country highway, or the lonely by-ways
Of the prairie or the wilderness you are to think to
study, and devise, that you may work out good re-
suits for suffering humanity
Asd not by your own thought and reasoning only,
but by the assistance Of medical literature, in our
day full, full to overhowing, and so cheaply fur
nished as to be within the reach OF every one, you
still should be the student. While in hours Of
leisure enjoy you certainly have the to,
the pleasures of the social circle yet let each day
which may bring you time of ease, record some time
spent among your books and journals. Bacon wrote,
ne That questioneth much, shall learn much." Act
rogsie the living ana the dead whose spirits en-
bodied in printed pages are before you and around
you, waiting to answer from their experience for
through all your life.
Go out into your busy life with courage and with
hope Anticipate the best, and so direct your aim.
For life ia thing OF beauty and OF joy 1t is intended
to he source OF happiness and of good to ALL and
and have IL soft you will use, without abusing it.
For truly life is sweet and pleasant thing it is to
behold the sun" What though the course of human
lives never does run quite smooth? What though
cares and trials do meet you on the way? We would
not take all such from YOU II we had the power.
You must ave dark shadows to bring ont the high
| lights, and the warmer colors are shown only by
And, moreover, by fire and by hammer, the
metal Is separated from dross, and wrought into
shape and temper, so, by trials and cares, men are
mnetally ana morally, purified, developed, and
strengthened for higher life. "Do your duty In
tn at state OF life unto which 1t has pleased God to
call' you; asing the good which may be gr Inted
ysu with thanKfulness, ay, and that which may
seem to be evil Joo times OF prosperity, seasons OF
adversely, both alike, the orderings OF Him who
| ''hath none all things WELL" And SO doing, and
| so receiving You, shall, indeed, fare well.
| When this was concluded, "Home, Sweet
| Home" was rendered, and this was succeeded
| by "Auld Lang Syne" A benediction ended
| the ceremonies, and the graduates received the
| congratulations of their friends.
Of the graduating class there were from
Pennsylvania, Ga; Ohio, s; New York, 6; Maine, 4;
Kentucky, 4; Texas. 4; Illinois, 3; Tennessee, 3;
Missouri, 3; Mississippi, 81 West Virginia. 8; Ca
NADIA, 8; Delaware q; North Carolina, 3; South
| Carolina, 2; Indiana, 2; California, 2; Nova Sco-
tia, 2; Maryland, l; Georgia, /; Michigan, 1; Iowa,
| l; Utah, 1. Total, 1877
| The number of matriculates for the session of
1870 II was All, representing thrty-fve differ
| eDt States and countries.