New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-09-30
THE UNIVERSlTY MEDICAL COLLEGE.
OPENING THE WINTER TERM-ADDREssEs BY
cuANCEIInR HALL AND DE-. POLK.

OPENING THE WINTER TERM-ADDREssEs BY
CHANCELLOR HALL AND DR. POLK.
The large lecture room of the New York University
Medical College more than comfortably filled by
about seven hundred students their friends of both
sexes last evening at the opening of the winter term OF
the Medical Department Students rs we'll 30 Pro-
fessors seemed heartily glad to look upon each other
and the stern OF tt lecturers the various
of medical science were relaxed and seemed
indicate that dry bones and the skeleton that hangs in
every closet had for the moment passed out of their
minds The Rev. Dr. John Hall, Chancellor of the
University presided; Among those present were Drs
Alfred L. Loomis, William IL. Thomson, J. Wiston
Wright l.. A. Stnson, A. T.. Macdonald. S. Oakley
Van3erpool, Henry g. Pihard, f. r. 5. Drake, Joseph
f Winters N NJ Shaffer p. A. Morrow, H. =. LOOMS
NJ n Miller T. c. Guimby, III. {. Cooper, III. h. Con-
rad l.. White John Vandcrpool, ir, w. II. Snow and
L. Heuel. Promptly at o'clock Dr. Hall advanced to
n small table and after the prolonged applause with
which his appearance vas greeted had subsidized he
said
the au picous circumstances in which you the
work Of another year. Not conteut with the admirable
buildings Which your enterprise and conoint efforts
have cared and the apparatus OF which your students
realize the benefits you are aiming nj still further cqu
men in The way Of building aud not deferred by the
cost of s erection You have the inspiration drawn
Iccsssfu mastery OF difficulties. from the
III having nnshed but OF vigorous woIk upon great
and noble undertaking Other colleges are founded
and endowed by the muniilcenee OF good men and
outside the ranks OF the teachers Yours Ia
common with most medical colleges, owes It's all To
your
hut hope that the time Is cOlns wnr your work VIII be
facilitated and the largest results brought nearer by the
generous cooperation OF wealthy and Pablo spirited
citizens The poor emphatically need tho hest medical
and surgical and he Is their friend who makes u
easier to competent students to acquire the needfu
capacity 10 minister 10 tne WounutI OF Tue dlschsr,'
Your work have watched with interest for years. aud
Science and Of eir race gave their not t. super.
ccde but serond. admirable efforts gentlemen
Gent enen of the Medical hool: As an officer OF the
University with which your school is In safe and honor
~. ffnn I Nttu
Some OF yon from far rom ntd states OF his
Unlon Canada and other British possessions from
nba from the West Indies and from regions even
remote. From thesA regions your predecessors have
come returning as r9ie TO tne'n WIN pleasant
trained capacities for professional! rscinncss. We
wish for like career BE SO eonsd"raie aud prompt
will soon disappear lie So Grave manly ana
pure rs that yOu will command the confidence OF all
he 50 sta Ons earnest that II will b. cougcnia work
to enthusiastic professors to guide your stndes ami
not least lie revereht TO God 10 whom you come
close ", His works that His favor your pre-
paratUry and ultimately your Iiie-work with pros
pering 6euectiOn. would fain say more but another
~ pcTtnnitv may be given me for this end aud
Il. Nj r'''' N
As Professor Polk rose TO deliver Bis address the
students gave him welcome that cheercd his heart,
anu made the walls of the building ring again and
again with pleasant shouts and hearty clappng Of
bands When quiet had been restored. Professor fck
read an address on the Relation of Medic No 70 other
Professions" which u OF telling ionis that were
greatly appreciated. He said that medicine vas more
exclusive than any other profession but much Less
than was generally believed. What WAS more iarcicaI
from a legal standpoint and moIe pitiabe from ned
zeal STANDPOINT than the confusion which every day
resulted from medical expert testimony so long as
medicine permitted itself 10 he used by the lawyer for
the confusion of jury and court 50 long would both
cur.e II In their hearts I'd cad by ignoring it, From
the nature OF it, mission medicine OF necessity was the
oil spring OF religion The speaker skeched the results
that followed from the union OF mCdrnc and religion,
and showed the benefits and reverses that followed.
The relation OF medicine 10 science was then sonsid-
cred and IL was shown that scicnce bad fret gwen
proper direction medical thought that all OF my
:. Forming thus a bond of union between religion aud
science said tho speaker mt dicine may yet be the
field In winch the pursuing it. inquiry INTO the
nature of the vital principle will ne able 10 demon
sraC 10 the other the extension OF natural law into the
spiritual world thus ending forever that struggle which
in all ages has marked the progress OF the two grand
est objects of human thought religion ana science.
Aftr the brncdictiOn pronounced Oy DIR. Hall
the rooms were thrown open aud the audience were in
x,ite1 Ia make a tOur of iusprctiUn,