The Portland daily press., 1886-02-05
MAINE MEDICAL SCHOOL.
The Sixty-sixth Opening Exercises at
Brunswick.
Able Address by DR.. S. n. Weeks of
Portland.
Especial to the Press. ]

BRUNSWICK, Feb. 4.-The Maine Medical
School opened today. Despite the intense
cold, large numbers of medical students
were to be seen upon the streets, looking up
quarters, and the good people Of Brunswick
received them with their old time open arms
and hospitality.
The morning was occupied with the en-
trance examinations. The outlook for a
large number of students is very en-
couraging.
At 8 p. m. a large number of medical
students assembled at the medical building
to listen to the opening address.
And here it is well to make public the in
sulting and outrageous behavior of some of
the village students just before the lecture
began, hoping that in the future they may
behave more as becomes invited guests and
gentlemen, or else be prohibited from attend
ing at all. For many years it has been col
lege custom for the college boys, as soon as
the doors are opened, to rush in in body
and take possession of the back seats. Then
begins tumult, such as the evil spirits of
Pandemonium might we'll envy. And not
content with noise, they greet all comers
with insulting and personal remarks The
Faculty has tried in vain to quell the dis
turbance. More forcible measures should be
employed in the future, or allow the nedics
to take the preservation of order into their
own hands.
President Hyde opened the exercises with
few appropriate remarks of welcome and
introduced the speaker, DR.. Stephen H.
Weeks of Portland. Before proceeding to-
the consideration of the subject of the lect-
ure, Prosecution of Medical Studies" the
lecturer reviewed the changes of the past
year, both in the faculty and in the curricu-
lum He lamented the resignation of Prof.
Carmichael, who SO long and so ably has
filled the chair of chemistry, but congratula-
ted the college in having obtained so worthy
a successor as Prof. F. c. Robinson.
The term has been heightened from 16
to 20 weeks, in accordance with a plan
proposed two years ago to Dartmouth and
Burlington Medical Colleges A chair on
public hygiene has been created, to be filed
by DR.. Young 0 f the State Board of Health.
Then came the sbuject proper. Prosecution
of Medical Studies" First was emphasized,
that all students, to be successful in their re-
searches, Should be fully imbued with the
students spirit" sufficient to surmount all
difficulties.
The study of medicine does not consist in
harmonizing axioms, but in accumulating
facts and principles which are to be elabor-
ated. That the study is reducible to certain
rules: First to lay good and solid founda-
tion, and this the student is able to do in the
wise separation of departments. He should
could not forget that studious research. had
been made by the secretary of the navy to
crush out great American enterprise, and
that by predetermined plan one of the
greatest of the American industrial estab-
lishments, employing 1900 men, had been
forced int bankruptcy.
Mr.. Cockrell said if Mr.. ingalls, believed
his own statements were true he was neglect
ing his public duty by not calling for an in.
yestigation which the Republicans in the
Senate had the power to order. The secre-
tary of the navy, he said, courted the fullest
Mr. Logan expressed willingness to vote
for the pending bill if the Secretary of the
Navy said it was necessary.
Mr.. Cameron urged an immediate vote on
the bill, but Mr.. Logan opposed this, and the
matter went over.
The Dakota bill was then placed before
the Senate, and Mr.. Harrison took the floor,
taking up the objections made to the, admis--
sion of Dakota. He insisted that the real
animus of the objection was that another
presidential election should pass before the
people of Dakota were to be permitted to
participate in such election.
Messrs. Butler and Morgan frequently in
tsrpeSed Yh eqmmspt@S @ and nd nadebafs adebafs a. Scca e
sionally became warm.
Without further action on the bill, at 4.30
D. M. on motion of Mr.. Edmunds, the Senate
adjourned, the chair first putting before the
Senate messages from the president OF the
Union Pacific Railraod, and the draft of
bill authorizing certain expenditures from
the Indian land fund to meet pressing needs
of the Miami tribe. The messages were ap-
propriately referred.