Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-15

the future. The property stands al
most in the heart of the city, upon
Also street, having frontage OF over
100 feet, and extending through from
street to street.
The buildings which were standing
upon the property when purchased,
are occupied in the college work, and
while old-fashioped, are yet comfort
able and sufficiently commodlous to
suffice for the needs of class double
the size of the present one. In the
till unsettled and shifting condition
of business in the city, and which is
incident to its rapid growth, it is
deemed wiser to delay the erection OF
new buildings for year or two, as 1t
is not yet certain that the present To-
cation will prove to be in the end the
most suitable, and we are anxious to
avoid the mistake of an unsuitable To-
cation, a mistake which might easily
be made by building prematurely in
a rapidly growing city. 1t is
all the more important to avoid
this mistake, as the plans OF the
college involves the erection OF col
lege hospital upon the same grounds,
a. d the amount of money which must
be used in carrying cut these plans is
too large to be wasted in a mistake OF
location. In the educational work
this summing up may be made: A
competent and harmonious faculty
has been organized. They have
learned to work together and together
to plan for the future. Appliances
have been accumulated at cost oi
many hundreds of dollars. A class
of earnest students has gathered
within the college walls, and they are
doing faithful and creditable work.
The high standard of educational re-
quirements adopted at the opening oi
the school has not only been main
tanned. but the faculty has now under
consideration the question of raising
it still higher.
Even now, with its present stand.
ard, the school stands as one Of q
small group of colleges which form the
advanced guard Of the higher medical
education in the United States. The
College of Medicine is doing its part
to carry out our broad university plan
of making Los Angeles the educational
center Of the southwestern quarter OF
the continent. It is that future to
which we are looking forward, and for
which we are planning. We feel that
we are as yet only laying foundations,
but we are trying to make ihem SO
broad, SO liberal, SO enduring, that our
work shall live after us in the long
years of that race growth and race
domination. which we can now see
dimly outlined for the region reach
ing from the western sea down
along the highlands of that inland
plateau whose further con6ne is in
the valley of Mexico. In that growth,
we as individuals may be forgotten,
out we shall live our narrower lives
over again in the broader and richer
life of the race.
To the graduating class, it becomes
my duty as Dean of the college, to say
the parting words, for this night our
relationship az teachers and students
ceases. Yet, although your relation
ship as students may cease with this
college # you are to prove worthy
members OF the profession, your work
as students OF medicine is only COM
menced. This is only the beginning,
not the end. You must be
students all the days of
your lives. The student, who
upon receiving his diploma says
to himself. II have finished my edu-
cation" is making possibly the great
est mistake of his life. Humanity
doss not stand still. Science does not
stand still. They are like an army
ever moving forward, and the man
who stops is like the soldier who
drops out OF the ranks. The army
moves on and leaves him behind. To
the earnest man there is no stopping,
no rest this side the grave. Will
there be on that other side? Much
as science has accomplished, more is
beyond; and tonight you are only
standing upon the threshold OF the
house in which humanity has been
toiling. Before you lies the Universe.
You have been students. We have
been your teachers. Within a few
years we shall, with tired hands, have
laid down the work. You must
take it up. You must in
turn be the teachers. Will you teach
to.your students more than we have
taught to you? Ii you do not you
will be unworthy successors. Your
opportunities will be greater than
ours, for the army will have moved
on. You should know more than we
do. We cannot hope to have you say
to your students, "Our teachers were
wiser than u.s. All that we can hope
4 to have you say in after years is this
"They we've honest and dillgent in
their teaching They gave us the
best that their light afforded. But we
are out in the broader day."
| II only We Can pass that lesson
along, SO that when you come to a
stand in our places you will teach
Others also to be honest and diligent
our time will have been we'll spent.
and our work shah live after us. Yor
are about to 60 out to your life work
Have you realized what it is to be
Other men go out from the college
classroom to enter upon the stir ant
the hustle of the vigorous life of th'
world. They 60 as well men amopl
the we'll. You go out to the byway
of life; to daily com panionship witt
the crippled, the diseased, the suffer
ling. AS you go, some things l woult
that you should ever bear in mind
Learn to be patient. Poor broker
humanity, in its weakness and it
pain will tax your patience often an,
again. But remember that it
,oor and broken, and that yo
are to come to it in il
| impatience and suffering like him {
old, as healer. Be very patient an
very gentle; remember the intinit
patience, and the infinite gentlenes
of the seventy times seven. "Be syn
pathetic. Harshness has no place
the sick room. Let your daily Wis
ho to tho suf}nrer as a dailv henedi,