New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-01-15
NEEDS OLA MEDICAL SCHOOL
THE ALUMNI MAKE AN APPEAL FOR MONEY.
BURDEN OF THE SPEECHES AT THEIR ANNUAL DIN
NER-LIGHTER TOUCHES.

BURDEN OF THE SPEECHES AT THEIR ANNUAL DIN
NER-LGHTER TOUCHES.
Any ailment under the sun could have been
promptly treated at Delmonico's last night. Doctors
thicker there than any hospital In the land The
occasion the fifteenth annual dinner OF the Alumni
Association the Department OF the University
OF the City OF New York There we're about hundred
OF them-a sober looking. thoughtful lot OF men-and
they ate and drank sparingy and IGNORED their Alma
Mater after a dignitod fashion DIR. +. r. s. Drake
pre- sided On his right tho Rev. DIR. John Hail. the
chancellor OF the University, and his left the vee
chancellor the Rev. DR.. McCraoken. At the guesttabt
were General Horace Porter Dr. s. o. yanderpoel,
DR.. Samuel Hale, Dr. W. NJ. Polk Charles Butler. the
Rev. Walter Thompson, DR.. ". IL. Thomson
Henry f. Rowland, DIR. c. L. Simmons,
DR.. J. W. Wright, and y. ID. Slsyback
Among those at the other tables Drs J. Dixon,
varlsy. A. +. Macdonald. Charles Insee Pardee James
II. Anderson. A. L. Loonis. W. Ranney II. p Loonis.
". J. WEIGH. +. f. Fry. r. A. Murray. W. a.. Ford, g.
W. White ID. A. Harrison. NJ n. Miller, n. M. shaher.
d. Edwin ONea, E.: d. Fisher. J. Vanderpoel f. d.
Weisse, James McDermOtt, James Elliott, W. c. Jarvis,
+. l.. Pardee, stephen Smith, l.. A. stimson and A.
Sidney RObertso Philadelphia sandwlched In between
the doctors were Commissioners T. s. Brennan and
II. II. Porter, A. Won Ramdohr, W. b. soinerville'
c. Ferchland, L. g. Salisbury, W. NJ Massey and L. l..
stetson
Dr. Drake proved capital toast MASTER and intro
duced every speaker with sally which put the audience
ia good humor before the speech After albref
address OF welcome Dr. Hall calico on to respond to
the first toast The University Of the City Of New
York" g large university like ours" he said In
order to keep pace with tho demands of the tne needs
large pecunary placed at Its disposal
The trouble has been that for In the matter
OF means the University homoeOpathlcally treated
The doses exceedingly small that they ala not
produce any papable effect upon the body CORPORATE
/ venture to think that In that respect tie tide has
turned We have good reason to be grateful Tor SOME
very substantial gifts think can say without heslts-
On that there Is hardly sphere In THIS great CITY III
which could moro nttingly erect for himself
monument more enduring than brass than ny giving
permanently increased power aud capacity TO teach
to this great institution Pros ress has been msdo Tue
various departments are Ia good WORKING orler Inc
Law School IA obtaining singularly good norary we
had good body OF professors II is great ming indeed
II we can have an establishment where people VINO are
nited in their means can i've At their homes and with
paratory TO any of the great pto which they
rlay choose 10 enter" Addressing himself TO the
doctors the Chancellor said Let congratulate ron
on tue rising moral tone of the profession which yOu
gentlemen represent. remember when the Impression
cnrrcnt In every direction that 1t would be absurd
to suppose that n medical student, indeed y medical
mar should be Ehat Is considered high In his tone AMI
testify tho progress which has beon made In this
direction" IN conclusion he reminded aihe doctors Of
where the clergyman would make his appeals IN yaln
Department. lie sid IN part: It gives me great pleas
to that this college is Ia very nour 'ns con
dition; that II has TINS tar been enabled 10 meet
promptly its many financial obligations. even the sew
cral members OF Its faculty have sometimes beeD com
PEELED take troir pay. for The most Igrt In tue priv
hege Of calling themselves and servants OF dis
tlnenished and noble mother But now. when we are
greatly I'm need OF room. feel that IL may not 70
wholly out OF order enlist the nert OF the Alumni
Association IN thai direction. The modest sum oil
10000 laboratory or dist ensary fund woald en-.
able buy a lot adjacent 10 the college and erect
upon 1t building suitabe for either purpose. to the
enhancement OF present teaching facilities, ana 20
the general adornment Of already imposing strue
ure | anu NJ liberty state. FOR your enlightenment.
that through the efforts OF two or three meer OF the
faculty nearly half Of such sum has already been
moment while picture what an additional SUN would
doi-a sum which ny want of ~ miiarly VITA money
since came into the college 'orbids me to name II
would purchase land In and place upon IL an
edfce devoted only To special lines OF scientific re-
phobic germ. but when should embrace we'll small
medical sad surgical hospital for the care OF limited
nrmbor Oi the important clinical cases In tie gen
erl erets OF science 10 the gtest advantage OF both
teachers AMI students, anu e' II he hoped TO the ale
provide With what IL now almost necessity. SEP
arate physiological laboratory hnd lectufe-rooih;
Thoroughly equipped with ugdrrn apparatus; II would
enable sustain several important fellowship, ana.
IN = word ould stamp this department as the hrs, ns-
tuition OF medical learning In the land " after that Ia
response the seductive arguments and the pers irve
eloquence Of your committed Of ways and means. which
I would respectfully should be Immediately APP
pointed from the members OF the a-soriation' some
philanthropy millionaire would endow part or all OF
chairs then indeed would the sunshine thaw the
winter of our di.oontent" 80
General Horace Porter spoke for our
Patients " in cuaracterl,tcay fatet'ons speech.
%rlSn to erpana into broad sTn and remain in
that condition as long As he continued speakins
surgical profsssion having served through the
and escaped with the usual compliment of limbs
but their worthy coadjutors the female sanitary Com
mission. for there were times when the female
Sanitary Commission were ABROAD. that
man could take nap In camp without get
ting his head bathhd nineteen times, and could
IL o' s crane III" Into Int. Mo Told story Of
Doctor who went Massachusetts To practise
but soon returned complaining that the people
mean that they saved all and tear upon their
throats by talking through their noses His speech
abounded IN good natured hits at the expense ~ the
doctors
The Rev. Walter Thompson spoke for The Pulplt."
THE Bar" humOrDusly treated by Henry
J. Rowland and the grave doctors were made 10
largh heartily again. Commissioner Brennan
did ample justice 10 "Our Public Char
ules." and Dr. Willis L. Ford concluded
the spePchmhking fitting tribute to Our Alumni
Association" The doctors all got home In good season.