The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-08
WILL ATTEND TO THE SICK.
Graduating Exercises of q Large Glass of the
Physiological College of Indiana.

The sixteenth annual commencement ex-
ercises of the Physiological College were
held in Plymouth Church last evening,
which was well filed by the friends of the
graduates and the school. The plat
form, beautifully decorated with flowers
and plants, was occupied by the faculty
and the graduating class, the latter num-
bering twenty, and including one lady. 1t
is the most promising class which has left
the institution The programme opened
with a prelude admirably played on the
piano by Miss Angela Maxwell, after
which Prof. w. A. Sturgeon, of the faculty,
spoke of the purpose of the ommencemen
exercises and the profession to which they
furnished a gateway. The history of the
medical fraternity. he said. exhibited many
instances of men whose talents andservices
had never been recognized during their
lives. 1t had its Jenners and its Harveys,
but in this respect it did not differ mater
tally from other callings and professions
where fame and fortune frequently came
too late to be of service to those who
earned them. Nevertheless. q SPLENDID
reformation in medicine had now set
in and the opportunities for those
who followed it to do good to their fellows
widened daily. On these opportunities he
discOursed at some length, urging upon the
graduates that they take advantage of all
of them in their efforts to benefit man.
kind. The Rev. S. A. Keen fol-
lowed with an earnest prayer in
which, he besought the blessings of
Providence on the class and prayed that
their haln tn tho afHiefaH might ha hal0ht-
ened by their religious life aud teaching.
The Plymouth Quartet sang and had an
enthusiastic recall. after which Prof. Geo.
Hasty delivered the formal address. He
s snine h snif bed for preached eacfy y {Sat a p 5hs eGS,
must belong to the regular school or be de-
nounced. Still it was better to be right
than to be regular, and the old.time con-
troversies. had not been wholly unpro-
much truth. Now. however, charity was
needed; The early practice of medicine
case of fever patients, who were
deprived of wafer. the sick man
in spite of his medical attendants. The
large percentage of patients who died in
those days under the hands of regular ply
sicians had led to the practice of family
doctoring., where people. took the cases of
from this had come a marked and
decided improvement. The remainder of
DR.. Hasty's address was an argument
In favor OF non-poisOnOus medication, In
which the undue use of stimulants and
he was given a hearty round of applause.
Miss Ida Sweenie gave a vocal solo, and
the degrees were then conferred by Prof.
SpurgeOn on the following members of the
Texas; William Andrew Bryson, Indiana;
William Frederick Bell. New York; Will
lam Francis Pechuman, Minnesota; Will
lam Franklin Stouder, Iowa; Isaac s. Har-
old, Indiana; Rachael Ann BrysOn, Ohio;
John Charles Davidson, Indiana: Charles
Stafford, Indiana; Edward Council BOlin.
Ohio; David Hawkins Harold, Lorenzo
Dow Jackson, Indiana; Jacob Wickerham
Davis. Ohio; Thaddeus Augustus Greene,
ley White, Kansas; Joseph Origin Morrison,
Minnesota; William Clymer LOar. PennSyl-
vania; Elisha Grove Anthony, Indiana.
One of the pleasant features of the cere-
mony of comforting the degrees was the
presentation in connection Herewith to
collection of flowers, each of the graduates
being remembered by their friends,
and some of them being loaded
down with handsome floral trib-
down on the programme for an address, but
was prevented from attending by a night
session of the Senate, and DIR. VeenbOer,
who took the place of the Lieutenant-gov-
ernOr, discoursed humorously on his sub
stitution for that official, and took occasion,
before he got through, to make several sug-
g~estiOns as to sanitary improvements, of
which he thought this city stood largely in
need.
After this there was a very acceptable
vocal number by Mr.. f. II. Hemstreet, and
q presentation to the class of the %certifi-
Gates of the Physiological Society, by
Mr.. E. NJ. Outland. who made a fitting and
appropriate address in connection with
number by the Plymouth Quartet the au-
dience dispersed.