New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-08
SUCCESSFUL GRADUATES.
TWO WOMEN LEAVE COLLEGE TO STEP
INTO CAREERS.
ONE WILL BECOME GYMNASIUM DIRECTOR AT
BRYN MAwR AND THE OTHER AN INFERNO
N A HOSPITAL

IN HOSPITAL
What one has already done has always more OF
interest about It than what one is going 10 40
Some one has said that air-casile ouiioihg u
necessary thing. because nothing can assume IL
tangible form that has first had mental one
but the trouble is that some people never get Dc
vond the cornerstone that is laid In the mental
structure This is true Of many college graduates.
whose soaring imaginati tons picture rose-uh'ea
dreams that become troublous Nightmares Tor want
OF the practical ability 10 carry them out No'h
Ing succeeds like success" and the girl VINO lays
aside her cap and gown to don the dress OF the
earnest woman worker In some sphere or an
other need have little fear that her college days
were wasted.
Replying TO its question, "What are 'ho
sweet girl graduates going to do! Inc iriou'''
points to two young medicos who Will receive
diplomas to-day at the Syracuse University Medical
College They are Miss Lucy c. Jones. Of this city
and Miss Louisa Smith. OF Syracuse, both % whom
have completed the course OF study prescrioeu
under the regulations OF the old three-year plan
Miss Jones has already had the offer OF place
from the New-Brighton Staten Island Hospital
hut will IN ALI probability take the place OF Inferno
at a womans and children's hospital Miss Jones
is graduate Of the Elmra High School and OF
the Cortland Norma School. and expects eventually
to become a regular practitioner
Speaking OF this. Miss Jones said: Il don't care
to conhne myself to institutional work, but AFTER
years experience will practise general medicine
There il greater opportunity for broader expert
ence in all branches Of the profession IN regular
practice than will be obtained otherwise. -.
There will be graduating class from the meul-
cal college In 1899 owing 10 the chahsc az u'
length OF the course This plan Is considered Nhu-
abe TO students, although certain colleges IN w
State have used extreme efforts to aoollsh IL. loI
the reason that the revenue IS greatly reuuctu
thereby, but the majority favor the plan, ana tne
future will doubtless see greater changes III '"S
OF this Miss Jones said: The question OF
a four-year course every student VIII IN
dorse. and IL is only matter Of time wheh tnee
requirements will be even greater and degree WIZ
be necessary before entering upon the melicai
course From personal observation have noticed
that students having tho bcnef!: OF ful! or par
tial college enter upon their duties WIN
greater ease and do better work than those Wll"ut
such previous advantages In some colleges IN
Massachusetts this requirement VIII become heces-
sary after 1900. And IL ought 10 be So II STANDS
10 reason that tho mental training VIII De m
invaluable aid 10 one who pSpoSos 10 become a
thoroughly skilled physician.
Miss Louisa Smith. the other woman graduate ~
the daugh'er Of William Manlus Smith. pfoietso,
OF chemistry I'm the Syracuse Medica. College. ana
Is said 20 be one OF fle best ail-arounl woman
gymnasts in the city. She was a pulh or frol'ssl
.. II Mccormick In The Young Mem christian
Association gymnasium. She went 20 Anderson
school in New Haven. Conn whore she Won h'st
prize for athletic proficiency. From Now haven
She went TO Cornell University. She has taken ne
the Delsartan. swedish. German and other sys-
TENS.
Miss Smith has accepted the place OF gymnasium
director NJ Bryn Mawr for which she IS fnin"nily
fitted and II IS along these lines that her fuflfe
eudcavors will lie spent.