Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-12
NEW DOCTORS.
Graduating Exercises of the
Medical Gs,aIege,

Graduating Exercises of the
Medical College.
A large and appreciative audience
greeted the first graduating class Of
the Medical College of the University
OF Southern California last night at
the Fort street M. E. Church. The
exercises were opened by music and
prayer by the lev. +. R. Brainerd,
followed by an interesting address by
the President Of the University, Rev.
M. NJ. Bovard. d. D Rev. Mr.. Bo-
ward spoke at length on the "Rela-
tions of the study of medi-
cine to the development OF the mind"
He gave numerous instances in which
the study and the researches in the
realms OF medicine had developed
master minds in science philoso-
ply, psychology and literature,
naming among those who
had risen to eminence from the ranks
of the profession, Plato, Aristotle.
Locke, Oliver Goldsmith, Oliver Wen
dali Holmes and others. 1t was his
theory that the analytical nature OF
the study eminently fitted and quail
fed the strong intellect for higher
fields. The address was followed by
the presentation by DIR. Kurtz of a
fine case Of surgical instruments to
Mr.. H. Bert Ellis, B. A., as the sue
cessful competitor for the prize in
surgery. DR.. Darling presented prizes
to Mr.. H. Bert Ellis, r. A., w w.
Beckett, Miss Lula Talbot, f. d.
Bullard, A. M, for proficiency in di-
agnosis OF diseases of the eye. The
Dean, j. 2. Widney, A. NJ, NJ. d.,
made a few brief remarks to the
audience, giving short resume OF the
organization OF the college and its
past three years work, after
which he gave most fit
Citing and appropriate address to
the graduates, abounding in whole
some advice. In the course of his
remarks he advised the students with
whom he had so earnestly labored, to
strive to realize that their education
was not finished, but only COM
menced that if they did not continue
to labor as students, the great world
of humanity would move on
and leave them; and that
they now took upon themselves
a new duty and responsibility
that Of the practical instead of
the theoretical as heretofore. He
earnestly besought his students to
practice patience, remembering the
example of the Great Healer who laid
His hands upon suffering and broken
humanity 2 900 years ago in love and
tenderness, and healed them; to be
kind, gentle and sympathetic to keep
not only mind and body pure, but also
the heart-the soul. A physicians 8
duty did not stop with administering
a drug. The patients Is malady might be
from diseased mind or soul, and
how could the physician give relief
when his own soul was impure. The
successful man of medicine must
have strength, not SO much physical
as moral and mental. He must have
an unblemished and mistaken charac-
ter. If the students were patient,
sympathetic, pure, and had strong
hearts, they might hope for success,
and when the last prescription was
written and the pen fell
from the useless fingers, such
men would close their eyes
with the great self satisfaction tha'
they would walk soon in the unknown
with the Infinite Physician who
walked the earth in the past ages.
After comforting the degrees to the
the benediction was pro.
nounced by Rev. DR.. Cantine. The
class was presented with numerous
floral tokens.
There were nine graduates.
Mr.. Antony z. Vale is the young
est member of the class and
the only native of Los Angeles.
He received the degree of B. 8. at the
Catholic College at Santa Clara iu
1884, and will receive his degree of
NJ. d. this evening, after three years
Of hard work at the Medical College
of the University OF Southern Cali
fornia. DIR. Vale will leave imme-
diately for Europe, where he will de-
Vote two years TO study in the
hospitals of Paris, Vienna and Berlin.
w. G. A. Thiele is native OF Ger
many and graduate Of the Poly
technic of Dresden. He has been
three years in the medical college
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