Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-04-10
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eoi,a1esN STUDENTS GIVEN THEIR
DIPLOMAS LAST NIGHT.
r,rx.rh,rd commencement Of the medi-
cal College Of virRinis-oration py
DIR. Tudor-Psizes Awarded

the Theatre last night. This closed the
ss.,. ,hi,d session of this honored institu-
tion and the occasion was one OF great
ecidf. s-,s.
There yyas a large attendance OF riends
80 ,ho college. flIiny the building COM
fortably.
The prsduates-fourteen in number
were seated on the right-hand SIDE OF the
stage facing the audience: Each 9t ,ne.a
was in full dress. with white we anu =. rI I;s
Coat on the other side Of the stage were
The faculty of the college and otner protni-
nent members Of the medical profession;
Rev DIR. w. V. Tudor, the speaker Of the
evening and DIR. Cullen, dean OF the
faculty.. occupied seats near the 'front.' Vi
the stage. AZ rxo,ar
by Rev. Mr. Stuart, OF the fourth rIesoS-
terrain church.
GIVEN THEIR DEGREES.
DIR. Cullen. advancing to the front OF tne
stage. said that by virtue % tne aatnoi NY
vested in the college by n charter from the
State of Virginia il gave him pleasure 20
Announce the names Of the graduates ana
recommend them TO the love, CONFIDENCE
and sympathy of the community. -
Az his request the graduates formed IN
sefn;-circle around DIR. Cullen, who pre-,
sented each of them with his diploma ana
gave thom few words Of advice,
The orchestra then played choice Sc
lection while the ushers presented the
floral tributes to the graduates.
The prizes were awarded as follows; =,
Alumni Prize-gold pendant-Dr. Il. NJ.
Ship. Delivered by DR.. Michaux.
Faculty Prize-case OF instruments-Dr'
Blankenship. Presented by DR.; Cullen.
DIR. Shieldss Prize-an opthalmoscope-
awarded to DR.. Blankenship.
Anatomical prize-a case OF liis'fu'iieh'S-
TO DIR. Ship.
DR.. Owens (of Lynchbure) prize to the
best in the class of surgery-a case Oh IN
struments-to DIR. Robinson.
DIR. Garcin's prize-ohstetrical instru-
ments-to DIR. Micklem.
DIR. Tudor's Address
Az orator Of the evening DR.. Cullen in
troduced Rev. DR.. w. V. Tudor, OF the
Broad Street Methodist church.
In beginning his address DR.. Tudor hui
morously told how he had come to be in
yited TO deliver it. He would, he said, di-
vide his remarks into three parts-frst;
the prologue; second, the monologue, and
lastly, the epilogue. or application as
preachers would always have 1t so. Be
ginning with the first subdivision the
Doctor said:
| recognize the honor / have of address
ing you on this occasion, and | recognize
also the most interesting epoch tonight IN
the history of this graduating class OF
Young gentlemen whom the scholarship
and science of this faculty think worthy to
be sent forth commended to society, for
therapeutic Offices unto the ills that flesh
il heir 10. You have been much occu-
pied. gentlemen, with the concrete in your
late studies. My subject will conduct us
somewhat into the realm of the abstract.
You would not expect a medical thesis
from me; and while the ethics OF your
profession offer an inviting field OF essay,
| could not say more IN the line of them
| than has already been suitably impressed
upon your minds by the. humane and
Christian sentiments that have certainly
mingled in all the lectures of this Chris
| tian college. The benevolence OF
medicine and surgery goes without
| saying. Yours is ministry 70 sur,
| ferine, blessed Office. The manifold and
| tiresome ministrations of the physi-
clan, unremunerated by any least con-
| tribution.to his material wealth, are known,
| suppose, only by the profession itself.
| The most good man does in life is that
| for which he pays beside himself to do,
| as by an extra tax, rather than is paid for
| it 4; pays out of some pocket. the pocket OF
| health the pocket of nerves, the pocket of
4 Il
| upon which no money valuation can be
| placed Heroic study has preceded the
| great discoveries of science. Search and
| research. the voluntary labors of literally
restless inquiry, have led to the conclusion
| which then astonshes the world by It's
grandeur and truth. The falling apple of
| the legend was not the first, but the last
link in the chain Of Newton's thought
of gravitation. Nor was gravitation a
discovery: 1t was q thought-one of the
great thoughts of the ages.
THOUGHT AND THE MIND.
You have gazed before now at compli;
Gated machinery in motion at back and
forth, up and down, in and out, round and
round, fast and slow, quick and heavy mo-
tions, q may wilderness OF movement.
Would il not be sight, a spectacle to be-
hold, the mind revolving subject within
itself In deep, arduous, real thought: the
maZy movements of what Sir William Ham.
ilton calls the "elaborative faculty.
thought? Thought is creation. How IN.
describable to the process OF thought
What intensity. what concentration, what
toll in thought The honest toll OF all the
mechanical trades is in it, the laborer's
pick, the blacksmith's Drawn, the carpen
ter's plane. the bricklayer's patient trowel
the painters brush. The process Of
thought seems to a man TO be gong on
within him. He locates it in his brain
What is doing? How is thinking CON
ducted2 Everything helps it, everything
binders it. We should need to. define
spirit, to describe its doings. Thought
like electricity, existing everywhere, /!
quiet, gentle. native at home, dreadful
abroad. 1t is slumbering power awaket
by friction with the will. Discartes said
think, therefore am. Thought, therefore, !:
essential life at work The man is not fully
conscious of himself who does not know hi
utmost power TO think. The ever retreat
ing horizon reckoning us forward suggests
immortality as the necessary condition Il
enable man to be fully conscious OF nm
! self. We may not say how, but we have
the power Sap of thought rises and puts
forth in green and leaf and flower and
fruit; the wing of thought flies; the mus
, Gle of thought has locomotion; the stream
of thought has its spring; thought has It'd
medium as light has and sound. No mar
can tell how effective thought is carried OF
, | within him. Somehow the mine yield III
ore, the ore It's gold. Thought sits at thu
forge and waits for the red,hot metal SUI,
on the shore and waits for the argosles II
, has dispatched itself over the main Il
. bring il the desired cargoes. In literature
, whose are the works that are immortal
The men of thought. Living though
gathers within, expands, grows, enrap
lures, surprises. Inward spiritual field
bloom into landscape and garden stretch
ing wide their odoriferOus and Lowell,
acres. 1t requires patience, persistence
! purpose, toll, but the force is in man Il
yield ITS effects.
THERE ARE FEW DRuDGEs.
| have sought to give you, young gentle
, men, some inspiration to study. Th
! drudges in every field of learning are few
but they are the men who do the grea
works for the race alike in the highest cul
| ture and in the most benefcent arts.
| take within the scope of my thoughts Will
, YOU this evening the possibilities OF futur
discovery, the hope that future ages ma.
have O benediction for the student ant
thinker of this class who at the close 0
, the nineteenth century OF in the first hal
, of the twentieth found new and .poten
guide for the relief Of human maladies.
wide domain of physics in your profession
) has not yet been interpreted, to science
$ What a world of inquiry lies out befor
I the future philosopher The world
waiting for the coming thinker.
, In closing DIR. Tudor laid great stres
upon the fact that faith was the founda
| ton of all science. and that immortaiit
! / could not he comnrehnndpd by man.