, 1877-03-06
MEDICAL.


Thd Commencement exercises Ut tho Chicago
Homeopathic College took place At Hershey Nus[d
fiel1 last erenlnx In the presence Of a lAfSa and
Intelligent snd!snco. Ths college IL the youngest
In the city. md this MAS IL DIST Commencement,
and It augured we'll for IT. future anccess and use
Su1ness. The exercises opened With music BY
select orchestra, which was followed By prayer W
Bishop Fallows.
DR.. j. T. Mitchell. The President Of the college.
delivered tha annual address. lie sars brief
history Of medical education In the Cnlted States
and spoke Of the low poIus It had reached ns
regards Its standard, and The causes for
It, and referred briefly to the elotts that
had been made, and were now being made, 10 saise
the grade. The expestcnce OF oar Civil Var Ind
enabled American surgeons to place military snr.
gerry on higher plsnc thsn had over before ocsu-
piled on this Or any other country. Thts was ac*
rcpted ~ proof OF tho marvellous practically Of
.hs American n'nd; II the old eountnes Ave
adopt the ::;eoldcn mean" be.ween she scholarly
of tee mssho4 and The
u ono eollexe ia bson brilliant. 0nly nv eoI:
'ess' n.ts nons 'fst a,mis'sssi ;nfssi
thetr te.sSias sct graduated .tqasnn On
concerned III, public. Il made difference wacn
thf hshtr ss s
!gnotsnt gr.daats Of legalI.1a diploma factory.
xe could discern the signs Of The medical times,
aesrte Of sdssnee % IL Medical % eae.,i"n % thsa % Id
esss hss ssss
ssiss aa = son,ap :t.aa ses % sss Ae%sspsis!s
ns rducattor1. It was 70 managed financially INIT
il. requirements could b enfored II It only, had
fly s1asn TsG1ch II IL "a; S n
organization ~ auea thst tne medical gentlemen
made I'll ths fepantlon lid no representation.
So othsf medical college In ;he sisy save !he one
taey IF u 70 ofsantzsd II al osheft ths faculty
sion forty .nss students nstflculsted. Tno cou.so
Of tMtruetton had bern botn scientific and practical.
ed. Advanced pupils hid been IH Hpiseed il chsssu
" patients. which they treated themselves un-
der direction OF the clinical Ptofe1sors. slx
clinical. Fifteen members ot tie eiA.s hsu aitend:
I'd swn fa'l couttss snd passed thorouzh written
surgery. Tie I'd address ] elo.ei ~ viii eS@pnsntaty
renasks to the graduates and tho expression Of tho
best Wishes for their aucce*e.
TuH C0NEkRAIN0 OF pEaREx3
was next In order. Tho following is = list Of the
gr.duatea:. Csy;on y. Carr, u. r. Little, anl
fa.s fss, II sSpSsaf qess s;:s
Masso, Wisconsin: Edward q. Foison,, Esw YORK:
AMI Charles y. ,rarrIe., Lyman i. cafrlct, Ell!ott
". CurrIts Helen A. 11caih, julia Holmes fi,nitn,
Charles A. stone. aud II. Abhlo Underwood, ILL.
nols.
= Tic raledlctosy ras delivered BY Prot, ". II.
WoolJntt, anu was received With marked appre-
ciatloa. notwithstanding that auuc members al
the graduating ceasr lstcued a. they followed thu
spenker In reading II frOu q printed copy Which
had sulnthuw gotten Into tAets h4nls Ii wAy full
Ut kind ahFtcs well gven, and connsc1ed the class
not to couslarr their .edncstIun cnnplotr. but to
Increase itels knowledge to the fullest extent. lie
4eItt tsIGHl tn place themselves I'm 4 receptive
afatc. amt cautioned Them aghnst conlrulntux all
cFrsdt which did not conform to th<ir own.
A letter was read fruui the Duncan Lros., pub.
lishers, eongnltulatinx tho graduating ciass and
rendering zach Meubar thereof the Eltl u tho
MtdifuI 1nef.iigaior lot 1s77, which VIA received
with applause. -,
Currirr. ~. H.. Vi this city. II showed cArcfut
preparatl9n aud IN eap2rsciat!on Of tho ciscum;:
hHuur arsr happily blended In II, hut it, neFlt
last atlr.scd by ~ hearty seccptlon AZ IT. Con-
Siaslor. the speaker was presented with tas&lly.
arranged basket Of hawers.
Ths exercises clots1 with music.