New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-21
IT'S FIRST GRADUATION.
MANHATTAN STATE HOSPITAL TRAINING
SCHOOL GIVES FORTY DIPLOMAS.
p,suoP POTTER 1Aups THE INSTITUTION AID
SAYS HE Is PROUD OF THE RECORD OF
NEw-YoRK IN ITS TREATMENT
BISHOP POTTER
or THE INSANE


It was gala day at the Manhattan state Hos
pital Wards Island yesterday even 70 the patients
who sat in groups about the lawn under pretty
tents or shaded by he wide-spreacns trees ana
beamed approval on the visitors. The occasion was
the first graduation exercises OF the Training school
for Nurses and everybody happy.
The LONG, low studded in which the
exercises were held was tastefuy decorated with
hags and flowers. and Vas filed with the graduates
students. doctors ami friends ~ the institution
while on the platform were seated MIS-. E!oonoTa
Klnnicutt and Miss Louisa Pierpont Morgan ~
ths Board O.; Managers. the Right Rev H. 6. Pot
tor. Bishop OF New-York; Or. +. a. Macdonald
general superintendent. Henry f. Rowland. prosi-
dent Of the Board O: Managers. the Rev. Percy
Grant and others. After A selection by the hos
pitai banI and an Invocation touching In its sim
piclty hy the Rev Percy Grant. the chairman OF
tho meeting H. L. Rowland made the opening ad-
dress Modestly deprecating his ABILITY TO do
honor to tho occasion. the ground that az
LAWYER he was moro accustomed % dealing WIN
fellows OF baser sort" he proceeded 70 pay most
charming tributes 20 the representatives, OF inc
..faIr sex" before him and 10 this Imperial city
which he characterized 1853 having the h"est '','.u-
,o,s or this OF on any other continent ana WAC"
has eI in the development OF womens WORK
"Twcn.y-nve years ago" he said. "wonans ned
was restricted 10 copying. serving or 'oa'""s' "'
today they are the expert stenograpHe'S' '''VN
raphers decorators and the most brilliant OF news
,sno- rcnort.rs while science in the Kitchen has
demonstrated that sponge cake. instead o. oe."b
considered a paper weight. can resume us proper
sphere"
Juigo Rowland then welcomed tho graduates mo
the ranks Or tho workers OF the "or4u' anu
thern that nothing is accomplished tn the "or'
r.i,houf work and 10 learn 20 seize opportunities
and tho work ON hand. however Trivial
Dr. Macdonald then toll IN few words the ms
tory OF this frs class. formed two years ago "n'"
me citv ASYLUM was turned over TO the sac u''''
~ the attendant difficulties NJ me ou'7o'' '-''
,..sod nm. ncrs .verance that had enabled sixty az
The Students of that time 20 ov,Tco'Hr ".' :"
ana rtar 70 tie report Of the supernienden.s
Of tho STATE hospitals, exclusive o; t@ wa Ta1,i
the class stood Is hsh ai.er u''''-''' N'''''''
i pretty ceremony loI2"eq IN ." sn Mis- Nor
GIN the grnduatco inarch!"s Hp 10 the ''"S-~ '' "
'G n,tbo, po,or undressing the class spoke OF ne
element 81 patbos tn work ne BIaunh'rSS 49,.
zane f:om the word Bethieher ne .8j,o
sim" rcosruy" he ssid for TIE o Gll
place % 1esu. 'o r'p,S md ,reaeot IKE hrItes
f.; hon fo,cr spoke also OF TIE tragic element in
M ny oroud * The state * which am ma
live and a. tne ely IN which ! have my ro'i'e,
| snr thu stand nrst IN the world IN the care o'
Ee ,hon proaounced the ben,aicon the eare
o. RI Manhattan Training School wen' o'' 70 ''-
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