The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-16
CORNER STONE LAID
FoRMAt CEREMONIES OF MEDICAL
COLLEGE OF INDIANA.
Governor Matthews aud DIR. Kitchen
Make Addresses-Masonic Rites
The New building.


Of the Indiana Medical College. at 2 o'clock
yesterday afternoon, attracted large crowd
to the corner of Market and Mississippi
streets. rostrum had been constructed
and was covered with canvas. The ground
noor of the future medical college was
covered with chairs for the accommodation
Of the Grand Lodge of Masons under whose
auspices the cornerstone was to be laid.
The Indianapolis Band discoursed music
while the procession of Masons represents
ing Center. Marion, Capital City, Ancient
Landmarks, Mystic Tie, Oriental, Pentalpha
and Logan lodges, was approaching DR.
Marsee, dean OF the college, made formal
request of the Grand Masonic fraternity
to take charge of the ceremonies and Grand
Master Frank E. Gavin, one of the Appel
late Court justices, formally consented to
do so. The stone in the meantime had been
raised to about six feet above it's resting
place in the northeast corner of the future
building. Grand Master Gavin proceeded
to say that that teachings of Freemasonry
lnculcate that in all undertakings, great or
small the people should seek the aid and
favor OF the Almighty. He therefore
called upon Grand Chaplain Jenckes to offer
prayer. In the prayer, an invocation was
made to the Divine Power to bless the
ton Is dedicated to do. The Masonic audi
tors Joined in the "amen' of the Invocation
with SO mote it be- After music, the
81 the grand treasurer, Martin Fl. Rice
II the articles customary to deposit In the
receptacle in the cornerstone had been pre-
pared. The answer was in the affirmative
The Grand Secretary William H. Smythe
was next asked if the list of articles to be
deposited had been prepared for record
The grand secretary responded affirma tive
ly and was then instructed to read the
list, which was as follows:
A copy OF the commencement programme
OF 1875; names OF the students on college
rolls; names of the faculty; copy of the
governors address; a copy of DR.. Kitchens
papers
The grand treasurer then deposited the
ceptacle in the CONVERSIONS while the band
played a solemn air. The architect Mr.
Doggett, then delivered the working tools
severally the acting deputy grand master
Col. N. r. Ruckle, to the acting senior
grand warden, W.. f. Browder, and to the
acting junior grand warden, G. l.. Hutchin-
son. The square was handed to the first,
the spirit level to the second and the plumb
to the use of these tools and after respond
ing that the moral and Masonic teaching
OF the square is to harmonic conduct by
the principles of morality and virtue, by
the spirit level that all are descended from
the same common parent, that all are alike
and by the plumb that we are to hold the
prove our work. Each of these tools were
applied to the stone to illustrate what the
f moral Truth ra means in L, physical way
the elements of conservation in the silver
goblets to these three officials who poured
a little wheat into the receptacle almost
entirely filled by the casket, and also some
wine and oil. The wheat was the emblem
of abundance, the wine of health and the
oil of peace. This done, the work was pro-
claimed finished and the several grand
officers carried the news from east to west
and around the horizon. Other grand Off
GERS present were Grand Lecturer w. e.
English. Senior Grand Deacon A. w. Thomp-
son, Junior Grand Deacon z. D. Moore,
Grand Tiler II. J. Hudson.
DR. KITCHENS ADDRESS
Dr. Woodburn then. assumed charge of
the programme. The speaker representing
the faculty was Dr. John NJ Kitchen
His address in part was as follows.
Indiana is noted for the wisdom of her
statesmen, for the valor of her soldiers,
for the patriotism of her citizens. Indus
leading characteristics of her people. Stand
ing as we do here to-day under the shadow
of the dome of the Capitol it is difficult to
area which. less than eighty years ago,
was covered with a dense forest, full of
DEER and ve Wild ana saen snd
black bass! Happy Indiana. What myste--
ious change. from wigwam to mansion,
crack of rifle to rattle of machinery, from
scalping knife to bistoury. from savage
torture to bliss of anaestheSiai
Again, between my thumb and finger is
bit of concrete, a small tile, less than
a half inch in diameter, of no value in it.
self, and interesting only because of its
history. In museum in Naples may be
seen a collection of surgical instruments
known to be over 1900 years DID, there
are syringes, catheters, probes, knives,
scissors. forceps specula, ETC., all found in
house in the celebrated ruins of Pompeii,
pieteiy overwhelmed and destroyed destroy literally
buried by an eruption from vesuvius in
the year 49, In 1867 an Indiana physician,
travelling in Italy procured the services
of a guide, visited these ruins and by spe-
cial request was conducted TO the house
ments e we're , discoveped. The house was Sit
uated on a narrow street paved with lava,
was built with brick. one story. aid had
the fresco paintings on the~ walls, was
the surgery, where opera tions We're per-
formed and medicines prepared The floor
witness of scenes of agony, of tears shed
in the depths Of despair, in the operating
he re; a link uniting the dead past with the
living present link connecting the surg
cry Of the first century OF the Christian L.
of the origin and history of the COZ
inent professors who have achieved fame
before they died Continuing he said:
These ceremonies announce to the peo-
work is assured and soon to be. real.
What has been this work, what is it's re-
alization? For more than quarter of a
century the founders and teachers in this
college have been working together for
tile noble purpose of doing good to their
felIow-men, to heal and to teach the heal
ing of disease. Without money, without
pay, except professional emolument, and
with but meager equipment and their own
capacities these men began their great
work of creating this school of medicine
In all countries and in all ages the human
mind has been the victim of credulity in
the cure of diseases. In our own time,
and in our own State, this has been not
less true. Our institutions of liberty CIV
ing free speech and free action, also give
rare opportunity 10, and do foster, ille-
climate medicine. This condition, with
other obstacles. stood In discouraging pro-
portions before these men. Yet, with a
edge, and a transcendent faith in their
own work and its outcome, they, with
others, have striven to correct human pre-
iudice ard to educate public opinion by
teaching The real truths of medicine.
standing far in advance of the public
demand for better medical education and
legislation are the requirements within the
medical profession itself. These require
fnents are to-day most exacting, compel
ling a high standard of preliminary liberal
education, without which the best results
in professional study cannot be attained
With the progress that has come requiring
q higher standard of medical education
there also has come new era in the meth
ods of teaching medicine. Now almost every
department of a medical college which