Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-05-04
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY.
Commencement Of the Medical Department
President Richards Able Address.

Commencement of the Medical Department
President Richards Able Address.
The Academy Of Music was packed Saturday
evening with an enthusiastic crowd, the occa-
sion being the forty-second annual commence
ment exercises Of the medical department Of
Georgetown University. The stage was beau
tifully decorated with flowers. Banks of palms
were on either side and a scr oil of flowers
bearing the words "Class 81" was hung above
the center of the stage.
ON THE STAGE
Commissioner J. W. Douglass occupied q
seat on the stage beside Rev. j. Ravens Rich
ards, president Of the university, and in ad-
dition to these were DR.. George L. Magruder,
the dean of the faculty; Surgeon General John
B. Hamilton. professor of surgery; DIR. Joseph
Tabor johnson, professor OF gynecology; DIR.
Henry ID. Frye, professor of obstetrics; DR..
Charles II. A. Kleinschmidt, professor Of physi-
ology; DR.. Frank Baker, professor Of anatomy;
Dr. John j: Stafford, professor Of chemistry,
and DR.. William H. Hawkes., professor of
materia medica.
Music was furnished by the Third Artillery
Band from the Marine barracks, and then the
dean OF the faculty. DR.. Magruder, announced
the names of the graduates, who advanced in
alphabetical turn and received their diplomas
from President Richards.
THE GRADUATES.
The graduates were: William W. Baker, NJ. D.,
Maryland; John Aloysius Barry. Massachusetts,;
jefferson Davis Bradfield, Virginia; William
Laselle Chamberlin, Indiana: John Thomas
Cole, Virginia: William Ellsworth Corbin. NJ, D..
New York; Hugh Clarence Duffe, Maryland;
James T. Eslin, District Of Columbia; Henry
Clay Fisher, Maryland: John ". Frost, Illinois;
Patrick Joseph Gallagher, Pennsylvania;
Walter Scott Haines, Tennessee; Jesse
Chambers Hill, Massachusetts,; Presley Craig
Hunt, Rhode Island; Norman r. Jenner,
N: D., Illinois; Frank Gray johnson, M. D.,
Michigan, Alvah WILDER Jones, Minnesota:
John Henry Junghans, A. B., District Of Co
lumbia; Douglas Howard Kincaid, Kentucky;
John Ralph Medley, B. L., Md, Illinois; Chas
p. Postley, LII. b., NJ. D., Texas; Louis Cromer
Purman, NJ. D., Florida; Ansel Jerome Rob-
bins, Texas; Ralph Haynor Ross Ohio; Ferdi-
nand Shoemaker, District of COlumbia Ha--
low Robert Street, California; John Albert
Stoutenburg New York; John Edmund Toner,
Phi. D., Virginia; Walter Augustine Wells,
Maryland, and Lawrence Clay Woodson.
Georgia.
Certificates were also conferred on fifty-three
undergraduates and juniors.
DIR. Avah W. Jones delivered the class vale
dictory. 1t dealt with the importance Of the
occasion to those who were just being born, no
to speak into the realm of active medical expe-
rience and closed with a commendable resolve
not to cease learning because school DAYS were
over.
PRESIDENT RICHARDS ADDRESS.
The annual address to the graduating class
was made by President Richards. 1t was an
able and earnest address and just the one ap-
propriate to a class Of young men starting ont
in q new vocation in life. There are many diff
| ficulties, he said, in the way of the young ply
stefan, but the rewards would not be slow to
come or inadequate if the work was done as il
should be.