The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-30
FIFTY IN THE CLASS
MEDICAL COLLEGE or INDIANA
GRADUATES A LARGE NUMBER.
Rev. DIR. Sims's Able Address on .Un-
commercial Compensation Of the
Medical Profession.-

O%Nao@CAA
the twenty-fifth annual commencement of
the Medical College of Indiana On the
stage sat the fifty graduates and the fac
ulty, also the members of the board of
trustees. DR.. Joseph w. Marsee, dean of
the college, presided, assisted by DR.. Frank
lin w. Hays. The first number of the pro-
gramme was an overture, followed by Or
chestra Leader Millers composition en-
titled 1.-THE Medical College of Indiana"
Miss Schrader and Mr.. Nell sang a duet,
Why Answer So Demurely?" and won the
warm appreciation of the audience
The address of the evening was made by
rev. DR.. Sims, pastor of the Meridian
street NJ. e. Church. His theme was 1.-THE
monumental Compensation of the Medical
Proression.' Suggesting that the most tangi-
Die and satisfactory compensation for serv-
ices OF physician is generous fee prompt
ly paid, with the thanks of the patient. he
SAID that the currency in which settlement
- made includes many other things be-
sues money. 1t embraces the gratitude and
aiIections of the party served and the sense
OF dissatisfaction which comes to the
workman with the consciousness of duty
well performed. The monumental returns
Dr. Sims continued, should never be lightly
esteemed. But he extended the hope that
the period of fasting may not be too pro-
tracted for the physical endurance of the
graduates, but for encouragement while
awaiting material return. the Doctor called
attention to some compensatons which are
sure to be paid in as fast as earned. and
which never fail to bring great blessings in
their train. The noble calling of medicine
VIII only reach its ideal perfection of de-
Veiopment, he said, when every form and
cause or disease are known, when every ex-
isting or possible remedy has been discoy-
erea' and when the methods of treating dis
e ;a,e are SO thoroughly understood that no
remedy exists anywhere in the materia
me Of this globe. And professional tidel-
So far as 1t lies in one to reach this ex,
Sited ideal It includes a lofty appreciation
I'll .nat priceless Jewel, with which the ply
IN wall of the worlds agony, continued
n .hS Dioctor. is the summons that calls the
physician to this administration Profess
sionaI DUTY, properly performed, is a labor
OF o. love and consecration that can no more
PRICE upon Ml e sacrs9 than re set
household. The first of the compensations
Wnlcn. the speaker named is acquisition of
said, is one of the units of measure by
Wnlcn we ascertain the volume and quality
rich Who Il har physician sisa i CROWNS
ders and beauties and treasures which are
ever within the reach of honest professional
research. He instanced the career OF Boer-
nave in Holland in the beginning of the
eighteenth century. His discoveries in
medical science lifted him above and be-
yond the learning of his time, and the joy
or knowledge was the compensation which
made him rich indeed. All the world loves
TO honor such man. Al the age of seven
ty he left q twofold fortune-to his laugh-
ter, two million forms, and to mankind
far greater treasure, discoveries of inesti-
na6ie value and the priceless legacy of a
sublime example. The speaker also in
stanced Culver as an example of the re-
wards of knowledge.
Another reward to which the Doctor
called attention is mastery. 1t is, he said,
a pre-eminence almost divine, and when
worthily exercised its joys are pure and
exalted. The great things worthless in
the hands of him who cannot command
them; the least things wonderful in
the hands of their master. yours" con-
tinued the Doctor, sis profession where
mastery mas brings rev reward peeuafr yo rich
ncuralgias, rheumatism sc-ofula, malaria.
bruises, displacements. fractures, wounds
and poisons, the innumerable ailments that
flesh is heir to, you stand a champion of life
and health. 1t is yours to exercise disease,
allay pain and beat back the assaults of
death. There are hours when love, trem-
bling in fear of supreme loss, looks to you
as its greatest, earthly hope; times when.
remedy the skill to diagnose and admin.
lister the mastery of your profession in
q few points, life may depend, and the fate
of the household tremble. 1 can imagine no
greater agony of soul than that, of ply
stefan in uncertainty, competed TO guess es'S
peril when he ought to know. Ii you UNI
der stand the enemy you have to fight, the
agencies on whieh you on must a vetorT a ao
have in this position of mastery one of the
munificent conversations OF your proI roles
with which to purchase means of happi-
ness-often failing in that-but here in your
consciousness of assured triumph GU nave d
happiness itself. Be masters of all that is
possible IN the kill of your calling"
The last uncommercial compensation OF. on
which the speaker treated is the priv
lege of ministration." He closed with the
story of the Country DOCTOR" as told by
Balzac The address heard with at
tention and was applauded at its conclu-
Mr. c. Rfegger entertained the audience
so well with a double violin number, his
wife accompanying, that he was recalled
and responded with an encore; The Flower yer
a the four pr prizes. as as Follows Follows '
Board of trustees prize. $50: for highest
grade in monthly exam 11 Oliver
r The faculty Prize fs SIS; for the second
highest grade in monthly examinations,
Charles f. Cottingham, Noblesville, Ind.
The Mears gold medal prize. for the best
thesis on medical subject, Milo Benjamin
Dunning. Bedford, Ia.
instruments, for making the highest grade
in surgery, Charles e. Cottingham, Mobiles
vile.
To each of the recipients DR.. Cumming
spoke in complimentary terms. He said
that If the same qualities We're exercised
in their practice as they had shown in
their studies great success and even emf
nence would be theirs. The audience then
listened to a quartet composed of Messrs.
Nell and Meek and Mrs. Evans and Miss
Schrader in a double number, Dream,
Baby, Dream" by Smart. and You
ence would not rest until they. responded
with a third number. DR.. G.. w. III. KEN
err delivered the diplomas to the graduates
and made an address full of sensible and
valuable admonition. The orchestra played
Sousa's Directorate" and the exercises
closed with a benediction. The fifty grad
yates are many of them college bred men
and women and all have given four years
to the subject one year previous to matric-
ulation ON which they must stand an ex-
animation. This class is the largest since
the standard was raised. The names of the
graduates are as follows:
Joseph C. Alexander, Fishers Switch;
Don Ayres Anderson, Carlinville, ILL.,; Ed
win Dobell Bateman Lawrenceburg; Gus
tus Swithin BillInan, Shelbyville;
Emery Guy Bonnell, Lebanon; Michael
Edward Buellesfeld, Lenore. H.; William
Forster Butler, indianapolis; Frank Camp
bell, Shelbyville; Calvin Elmer Carney,
Logansport; John Edward Carbon, Indian
apolis Jediah Hussey Clark, Carthage;
Charles Eli cottinghaIn, Noblesviile; Rol-
land Fulton DaYnell. Greencastle; Daniel
Franklin DeForess, Boonville; Milo Benja-
min Dunning, Bedford, Ia. Philip Grant
Foust, Somerset; Walter Reed George,
West Newton; Robert Warren Hawkins.
Brazil; Minnie Henly, Irvington; Henry