The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-22
Professor Shells Delivered the
Valedictory on Behalf
of the Faculty.
BANQUET AT THE PALACE.
About a Hundred Sat About the Fes.
tive Board. Presided Over by
DR.. Williamson.

The commencement exercises of the
Medica! Department of the University of
California were held yesterday at the
Baldwin Theater in the presence of an
audience that taxed even the gallery. AS
a Snowman would say, They turned away
money" The regular Baldwin force of
ushers, under command OF DR.. d Ancona,
the distinguished hypnotist and physiolo-
gist, otficiated, and the theater orchestra
enlivened the proceedings with some of
its choicest morceaux d'opera.
DR.. r. Beverly Cole, who for over a gen.
Grafton has presided over these exercises,
hastened home from the convention of the
American Medical Association at Atlanta.
Ca, to perform his customary annual du-
ties, and the Rev. w. W. Bolton, the pic
turesque pastor of the late Frank Pix
ley's church of Mary the Virgin sanctified
the function with prayer and benediction.
The vaiedictory address on behalf of the
faculty, the great event of the year in coll
lege and medical circles, was delivered
by Associate Professor George Franklin
Shells, and was a pithy and forcible dis
course. Passing by the giant strides which
the profession has been taking toward the
conquest of disease and those "pesky little
critters" the microbes and bacteria, he
dwelt more at length on the struggles and
triumphs of the Medical Department, the
new Affiliated Colleges of Medicine, Law.
Dentistry and Pharmacy, and the varied
benefits expected to follow the improved
facilities for instruction. A feeling tribute
was paid 10 the founder of the college. DR..
II. II. Toland, and when he referred to the
long services of the illustrious president of
al Nrh 60
years has stood at the forefront both as
citizen and physician, the audience testi-
fed its approval by long-continued ap-
plause.
For the past year DR.. Cole has been
president OF the American Medical Asso-
citation, and as such justly considered the
head Of the profession. He is also, in all
probability, the oldest instructor in the
medical colleges of the United States and
has fIled every position in those institu-
lions, from demonstrator of anatomy in
Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia,
his alma mater, on graduating, to head
OF the Nj. ID. L. G.
DR.. Shiels also laid stress on the higher
standard OF education required for admis-
sion and the more prolonged course OF
study pursued of the Medical Department,
and closed with some sage and practical
advice regarding their conduct as physi-
clans.
II hoo OCSA cold SOI1t dlIenudUIS III
medical conventions that the doctors were
lacking in the graces of o-atory, but had
those critics been present at these exercises
they would be forced to admit that the
speeches were delivered with excellent
accent and discretion"
The class just graduated numbered forty
nine, the largest in the history of the in
stltutlon, including seven ladies' showing
that the advanced female has not over
looked medicine. The class is considered
strong, not only numerically but intellect
uauy, containing very large preponder-
ance OF bright young men and women,
who have been especially distinguished
for application TO their studies and good
order at lectures. Even the Wednesday
night ''quizzes." which previously were
not always characterized by Chesterfield.
ian department, were last year such as TO
call Tor the warmest commentator OF Dr.
Men ut, author of that standard medical
work, "The Kidney and Bladder" And
Dr. Campbell Ford heartily concurs.
Take II for all in all the class of 1896 was
great one and will long be remembered
by the residents of Stockton and Chestnut
streets. As Teddy Schultz, who has known
every class since the foundation of the
college, remarked: Twas a great class:
l say, great class"
The names OF the young medicos are as
follows:
derson, Cecil Miller Armistead, Henry Martin
Beck, Pho, Sanford Blum, ABB, Mary Eiiz-
abeth Botsford, George Anthony Brouchton.
William Parker Burnham, Howard McDougali
Cameron, William Darcy Chace, Leonard
Hayes Coe, Thomas Francis Cox, Alfred Nc.
Laughlin, Alfred Newman, ABB Mary Louisa
Assr Lopise a AGgusta Robert
Thomas OBrien, William Henry Ingram
UMailey' 1George Louis Painter, Pho,
Wallace p Ernest farkman, Victor Eu,
tIlfo Henry Giannini ABB, Joseph Thomas
Harrigan, Ichitaro katsuki, James Frederic
kearSey. Wilfred Harvey kellogg, Pho, Ar
thur Stanley Lee, Thomas Davis Maher B.Sc
Clarence Fayetie Maloon, B.Sc., Charles Lewis
Morgan, ABB, Pho, Howard Morrow, James
Daniel Dan MURPHY, Braybon Museott, Charles Dom
Florence Scott. John Thomas Stafford Arthur
Alonzo Stern. Ph.G Mary Jane Stewart, Maek
voorhees, Stone, William Miller stover, Eleanor
May Stow, Lewis Sanborn Thorpe, Henry Cans.
tin "Trask, Pho, Alberto Trevino. Newton
Booth Waller.
The faculty of the Medical DEPARTMENT
includes many mem bers who have grown
old in the service of the college, and MANY
talented and jealous young men have
been added. 1t is constituted as follows:
Martin Kellogg, AM, LID, president of
the university.
G. A. shurileff, MD, emeritus professor ~
mental diseases and medical Jurisprudence.
R. Beverly Cole, AM, MD. M.R.Cs.
president OF faculty.
W. +. McNutt, MD, M.R.C.P Edin.. etc.
professor of principles and practice of medi,
cine.
Robert A. Mclean, NJ. D., profes sor OF clinical
and operative surgery, dean.
W. E. Taylor, MD, professor of principles
and practice of surgery.
A. l.. LeDgfeld, NJ D., professor of materia
medca and medical chemistry.
Benjamin K. Swan, Md, professor of dis
eases of children.
George H. Powers, An. MD, professor of
ophth almology and otology.
William Watt Kerr, AM, NIB, en-, pro-
lessor of clinical meG line.
Arnold A. d'Ancona, ABB, N. D., professor of
Douglas w. Montgomery. Md. professor of
diseases OF the skin.
Washington Dodge, MD, professor OF thera-
peutics.
John NJ. Williamson. Md. professor of
anatomy.
John w. Robertson, A. B., M D., professor of
nervous and mental diseases.
John C. Spencer, ABB, MD, professor of
path ology and histology.
w. E. Hopkins, MD, associate professor of
ophthalmology and GEOLOGY.
George F. Shlels Md, F.R.C.SE, etc., as
soeiate professor of the principles and practice
of surgery.
Charles A. Won Hoffman. MD. associate