The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-07-13
PRESIDENT BUcKHAM's REMARKS.

President Buckham, after felicitous
quotation from Thomas Hood, proceeded to
say that he was not conventionally but
really happy to respond for the University.
We all had respect for the medical profess
sors. Though we have our little jokes
about them, yet we esteem them, nay, fear
them. That was the reason he did not dare
to refuse responding to this sentiment. He
was glad that this dinner and reunion Of
the medical alumni had been inaugurated,
for he thought medical graduates were more
loosely held together, had less esprit du
corps than those of other departments of
the University. The president then made
the practical point that what the medical
college needed was endowments. such as
institutions had in foreign countries. The
medical curriculum here should be larger
and broader, it should be enlarged by gem
eral philosophical and literary studies.
large part of the physicians acceptabilty
stands on his social culture, and thus it
needed a broader course Of study and bet
ter advantages than we now possess to give
this to the medical student He earnestly
urged the alumni present to secure these
endowments, many opportunities for which
lay in their grasp, in the practice OF their
noble profession. He hoped soon to have
chairs in the medical department would be
endowed by gentleman not far from the
reach of his arm.
Mr.. Peck said all would be glad to hear
from the gentleman who proposed to endow
a chair, and who came to take chair in
the college, when such thing as endow-
mcnt was not thought Of Dr. Carpenter
would tell them all something about the
earlier history of the old medical college
and something about the new.
DIR. CARPENTERS SPEECH.
DIR. Walter Carpenter rose amid hearty
applause and made long and interesting
speech, full of his well-known humor and
Astounding in some of his best stories lie
told about the old institution that died in
1884, how its lectures had been attended by
the best medical men OF that day, Nathan
Smith, Lincoln, Swectser, and others of
mighty weight in the profession. lie hui
morously described how nineteen years
afterwards, through the efforts of one DIR.
Bliss, the College was rcsuscitated; how
himself and five other professors COM
menced lectures with six students, student
for each professor. Prof. Carpenter then
traced the progress of the institution since
1883, and the difficulties that had beset it,.
and announced that the records showed an
average of siXty-sevon students for the
twenty-one years lie also alluded to the
pleasant associations existing between the
medical college and the state medical So
cicty, whose president now signed the
diplomas Of graduates, and two delegates
from that society decided annually who
should receive diplomas. The state society
had also inaugurated measures to raise
funds for a scholarship for the college, aud
nj ~ ,nriy For Ia ,ftat ...utl
written in each term. lie closed by an
eloquent tribute to the medical college,
stating that the graduates of no other in
stitution had done better in the army, navy
or in the hospital. All the graduates, as
far as he knew, were taking n medium
stand in their profession and many had
gone beyond that stand.
Prof. Peter Collier, the dean of the
medical college, followed in genial speech
for an abstract of which we are sorry We
have not the space. He spoke forcibly on
the subject of inducements, and announced
that gentleman that day had authorized
him to offer prize of $50 for excellence
in chemistry in the next course of lectures,
statement which was loudly applauded.
DIR. NJ. G. Edmunds, of Weston, was
called up, and pleasantly expressed his
great qualification at being present on this
suspicious occasion, ana hoped That these
reunions would be continued year after
year.
Rev. L. o. Barstow responded to a senti
ment to the 'divinity that shapes our ends,
and made capital speech. He spoke Of
first meeting Dr. Edison, while binding W
the wounds of brave men on the battle field
He spoke forcibly of the intimate relations
between the clergyman and the physician
They were all in the same line as philan
thropists, as he firmly believed there was {
link between our souls and our bodies.
George H. Bgelow spoke briefly to
complimentary toast to the press.
DIR. ID. S. Kellogg, of Plattsburgh, fol
the recent graduates, proposed the first
class sentiment: "The Medical College
our Alma Mater let her be first or die
when, after benedction was pronounced
by E. r. Atwill, the company separated
after which was most pleasant and in
structive reunion, which cannot fai
through its influence to add much to thu
growing prosperity of the Medical College
as well as the general good-feeling and low,
for 1t, felt by its sons.