The San Francisco call., 1896-04-30
Eleven Get Their Diplomas
From Hahneman Col.
lege.
CLASS NUMBER THIRTEEN.
Appropriate Exercises to Mark the
Completion of the Course and
the Start for Fame.

Eleven new doctors emerged from the
chrysalis state last evening. and having
received their diplomas are now ready TO
open offices. They formed the graduating
class of the Hahneman Hospital College,
the thirteenth since the college opened,
and the degree of NJ. D. was conferred
upon them in n. S. G. w. Hall with fitting
ceremony.
There was no lack of attendance, the
hall was filed to the doors; there was no
lack of applause nor of congratulations
and fragrant flowers. and intermingled
were choice words of advice and warning
from those who are turning from the end
of the path which the graduates are Just
entering.
Professor William Simpson, Md, of
San Jose, delivered the address of well
come. He extended greeting to the au-
dience which had assem- bled to cheer and
enthuse the graduates as they took their
first step forward, not as college fledglings,
but as men and women fit to battle with
the most dreaded enemies of the race
pain and death.
Continuing, DIR. Simpson said:
Your alma mater has said you are prepared
of cheering and supporting friends; before
these footlights and in the flush of success in
passing the crucial and dreaded test of your
examinations the answer seems easy, but in
the quiet of your own closet, in the inmost
sanctuary of your very souls. in the sickroom,
in the chamber where the life OF the mother
and her unborn babe depends upon the
rapidity of your thought and the deftness of
your hand; in the hushed and awful cham Der
of death-death from whom there can be no
escape-death before whom all must Weld
whether they be the young the beautiful or
the gifted a relentless enemy, insisting upon
having his victim. How under these circufl-
stances will you answer to GOD and to your
own conscience?
When you go out from this hall tonight with
the right to enter upon this fight fully con-
ferred, ii you are satisfied with your prepara-
tion, ii you are full OF selfconfdence and be-
lieve that with your student life your studies
are ended, tear your diplomas into fragmen nts
and seek some occupation where conceit out
ranks brains. You have already worn out
your welcome, and mine and that of your alma
mater and of the whole profes ssion is yours no
longer. You are preparing to use 1T most un-
worthily and it is Withdrawn.
If you so faithfully perform your work tn at
you compel those who meet you to say, "I am
proud 10 know you" "1ou are an honor to
to take up the lost thread for You and the tears
that fall for you will not be the forced drops of
hired mourners, but the real evidence of the
loving regret your life work has earned.
Rev. George E. Walk delivered an ad-
dress In which he compared the physician,
or the minister of the body, to the clergy.
man, the minister of the soul. Each
should be above reproach, he said, for the
man who cures the consciences need be no
better morally than he who enters the
privacy of home to cure the ailing body.
Frank Coffin rendered two vocal selec-
tions, ana at the close of the programme
the graduates were handed their diplomas
and then together they subscribed to the
hippocratic oath.
The graduates were: Bessie Crosby
Armstrong of Granville, Ohio; Frank
Luce Bateman and Lille Boldeman, of
San Francisco; Mary Dunlap Chisholm of
Wentworth. Nova Scotia; HARRIET How
ell of Los Gatos, CAL; Mary Ellen Hot
mann of Philadelphia, Pa; Jera Morton
Nally of San Francisco; Clarence Denver
Potter, Charles Kendall Small and Aida
Inez Thompson. of Oakland.