The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-06
newly PLEDGED DOCTORS,
Sixty.Three Students Receive
Their Degrees at Cooper
College.
Seven Ladies Among the Number and
One Japanese-A Fine Even.
ing's Programme.

Every seat and every foot of available
standing room in the auditorium of
Cooper Medical College was filled last
night with the relatives and friends of the
sixty-three graduates of the institution,
who during the evening received their ere
dentials as full-fedged doctors OF medi-
cine.
The exercises OF the evening were
opened by the performance of the Bridal
Rose overture by an orchestra under the
direction of Fenton P. Foster, and which
comprised among its members five young
ladies, novel departure in professional
orchestras in this City. Rabbi Jacob
Voorsanger followed with a prayer. and
Miss Maud Noble, one of the orchestra,
gave 1.-The Lost Chord" as a trombone solo
in very effective manner. The degree of
doctor of medicine was conferred on the
following graduates
Malcolm Osgood Austin, Ernest Barry, Walter
LIE Roy Blodgett, B. s. Rosa Meador Goodrich
Boido, George Waldo Burgess, Edgar Omcr
Campbell, Allen Melville Carpenter, Richard
Henry Carter, Martha Shattuck Case, Frank
Hail Church, Charles Vernon Cross, William
Henry Crothers, A. B.; Clarence Wythe Dodge,
Mary Alice Fish, John Joseph Gallagher, B. 9. ;
Charles Louis Garvin, A. B. Edward Frederick
Chaser, Pho; Gilbert Fuller Graham, IDS:
Frank Pierce Gray, Lester Claude Gregory, A.
B.; Herbert Gum, Charles Edward Hablutzel.
George Arthur Benjamin Hall, DDS; Fran
els Ambrose Harlow, NJ. D.; Emily Graham
quist Hill, Pho; Clara May Holmes,
James Vincent Hughes, Fisher Randall Jordan
Rimpey Kodama Ben jamin Frederick Korts,
Eli Abraham Kusel, Margaret josephine Ma
Jacob l.. Meinhard, William Augustus Meier
dierks, Walter McNap Miller, B. Sc. John
Claude Moore, Niels Magnus Nelson. James
Hunt OConnor, Amos Cameron Olmstead,
Harry Partridge, Birger Peters, Walter Har-
borne Powell, Arthur Dudley Prentice, Reese
Edwin Reese, Lucy Myra Kicker Frank Bolton
vile Erskine Rumwell, Herman Joseph
Schlageter, Walter Reese Scroggs, A. b.;
Charles Loyal Sexton, Pho; Edwin Cooper
Van Dyke, B. s.; Henry Franklin Walter. A. NJ;
Harry Seth Walters, William Hannaford Went
worth, A. B.; Walter Hoepfner Winterberg,
William Watson Wymore, Stephen Wythe.
Among them were seven young laoies,
including Emily Graham Harrison, the
daughter of William Greer Harrison,
whose appearance to receive her diploma
was greeted with more than the usual
amount OF hand clapping, which this
happy elimination of the graduates eff
forts called forth as each passed before
President L. G. Lane to bave the degree
conferred upon him. There was also a
japanese among the newly launched
physicians.
Professor Clinton Cushing delivered the
valedictory, taking occasion to review the
history and progress of medical science
from its earliest stages to the present day.
The orchestra rendered Balfe's 'Bohe-
milan Girl" and then came the most en-
PERTAINING feature of the evening, the adj
dress of Horace G. Platt. He opened in a
humorous strain, and until he turned to
the serious treatment of his theme he had
his auditors almost continually passing
from one CONFUSION of laughter into an
other by his stream of wit and humor.
Rabbi Voorsanger delivered the benedic-
ton, and the evenings programme con-
cluded with the march, Gather OF VIC
tory"