Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-06-24
EXERCISES AT BOWDOIN.
The Medical Class of '66 Hold Their
Exercises at Memorial Hall and are
Addressed by Rev. w. II. Fem. ID. d.,
of POrtland-Meeting and Dinner Of the
Administering OF the Phi Beta Nap.
Hyde.
BRUNSWICK, June %

This morning at 8 o'clock the graduating
class of the Maine Medical School at Bruns-
wick, numbering 81, marched to Memorial
hall, where the medical faculty were seated
upon the stage. After music by Grimmer,
prayer was offered by Rev. E. N. Packard.
Fehn, d: D., of Portland. Or. Fenn's sub
ject was THE Moral Elements in the Physi-
cian." Below is an abstract:
The intellectual elements of your future
occupation have been for years pressed upon
you. 1t may be well for me, therefore, to
bring out at this time the other and quite as
indispensable qualifications for your future
success, viz the moral one. Let my first
point be the treatment of morality as an
equipment in the pursuit of truth, its vast
Importance to the scholar and student as eve
salve or lotion to cleanse the vision and
quicken ardor.
There is such thing as a scientific and an
artistic conscience Every calling has sane
tions and piety of its own. Let a man be
what he may personally, the nature of the en-
deavors to be made in medicine require of the
practitioner that he be the very genius and
embodiment of reality. There must be an
honest devotion to facts, the facts as they are
and in white light.
Morality is not only the great touch stone
and test for counterteits, but it is indispensi-
tle 10 make the student open-mnded and &C
cessib!e to evidence from every quarter.
"Tbere are more things in Heaven and earth
than are dreamed of in our philosophy
Morality will constitute your discipline and
preparatory school in the long first years of
deferred employment. 1t will be the resource
and stay OF your later years; but il will also
form the impulse to your life work of miti-
eating suffering and prolonging life. Let no
man take thy crown; tits is your crown, that
your labor is a labor of love.
| Finally, morality reviewed as qualities in
detail, which exhibit the glory of the physi-
clan in himself and in relation to his work.
We have looked at him IN theory, now we
see him in actual practice. The first moral
element which must characterize the true ser
want of men in the sick chamber, is great
convictions, The deepest faith in the attain
ableness OF truth ind in the future progress
of knowledge and skill.
Almost Is the same line in the sublime nee
essity of high and cultivated instincts-the
talent of absorbing impressions and raising
them into mighty Co-etficients. In certain
cases this will amount to genius, bat in a
must be acquired. 1t may be slow at first
but in time precision, celebrity and intention
will come TO the dulest. You will learn to
detect symptoms without expecting too much
of them, and not to be deceived because they
do not follow the books. l call this great
instinct not because You took in the whole
situation from the beginning, but because OF
the great capacity for work. which it required
and the strain on the steadfast and persever-
ing will in the pursuit. Cultivate your in
stincts therefore, use them, embark upon
them.
There is yet another shining talent to be
coveted IN your new outfit, and tina. is in in
sprations of personality. As there is an
aroma which emanates from some flowers, so
there is a halo which encircles character.
The nimbus around the great physician is in
part, of course, of our tabricating. We ad
vocate no assuming of another's enthusiasm.
The parting address was delivered by VIM.
Lawrence Dana of Portland, of the gradua-
ting class. After another selection by the
orchestra, President Hyde, who presided,
made the following remarks;
at has been customary to announce the
names of the first four in order of rank
This wear five are announced, as the fifth Is
exactly equal to the fourth. They are II. l..
Staples, A. NJ; w. L. Dana, A. B.; W. A.
Balfour, NJ. d J. F. Thompson, A. B.; F.
E. Varney.'
President Hyde then presented the diplomas
At l2.l5 this afternoon the Medical Alumni
held its annual meeting in Memorial hall
The following officers were elected:
Presidential H. Hunt of Portland.
First Vice President-D. II. Robinson of
Bangor.
Second Vice Presdent-B. F. Dunn of
Windham.
Secretary-Charles d. Smith of Portland
Treasurer-F. H. Gerrish.
President Sumner Lawton read paper be-
fore the Alumni.
DIR. c. W. Pendleton of Portland was elect.
ed an honorary member of the association.
AT l.l0 the meeting adjourned to the lower
hall where the banquet was held. At the din
ner President Lawton introduced DR.. Thayer
of Waterville, as toastmaster, wh) gave the
toast "Bowdoin College, our alma mater"
which was responded to by President Hyde.
Finally the association adjourned
The Phi Beta Kappa society met this fore
noon at ll,45. The following officers we e
elected:
Presdent-Joseph W. Symonds.
Vice President-E. G. Cummings.
Secretary and Treasurer-Prof F. C. Rob
inson.
Literary Commttee-Wm. L. Putnam, d.
c. Linscott, Edward n. Packard. Prof. H.
l.. Chapman.
Wednesday afternoon occurred the inaug-
uration Of VIM. Dewitt HYDE as president of
the college. The boards and alumni formed
in procession in front of the chapel and
marched to the church on the hill, where the
exercises were under charge of DIR. Edward
B. Webb. In the Introduction of the inau-
guration service DR.. Webb reviewed the his
tory of the college presidency from the begin
ming, paying eloquent tributes successively
to Mckeen, Appleton, Woods and the rest.
His address was grand exhortation to uplift
and maintain the character of the college and
its graduating members. At the close he ten
dered the president the KEYS of the college as
as symbolical of the trust they placed in
him.
The following is An abstract of President
Hyde's inaugural address:
The Organic Relationship of the College
| and the Community.
Al life is organic. In the tree, in the ami.