Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-07-06
SIXlY.SIX new DOCTORS.
DEGREES CONFERRED BY MEDICAL
DEPARTMENT, U. v. M.
Address by Gen. o. o. Howard of This
City-Honor Men and Prize winners
valedictory by DIR. r. j. Stephenson
Governor Gives Diplomas.


the opera house Thursday evening in the
presence of an audience which filled every
available seat in both auditorium and gal
lery and left many to sit in the aisles The
number present indicated the popularity of
the graduating class as did the hearty APP
plause which greeted its members as they
passed upon the stage and received the
degree of Doctor of Medicine from the
hands Of Gov. f. c. Smith. The honor
men were announced as follows:
Edwin Walter Markham of Longmea-
dow, Mass.
Lemuel Payson Adams Of Swanton, Vt.
Patrick Carter Lodge of Naugatuck,
Conn.
George Henry sanborn of Concord. N.
II.
William Edward Dennng of Burlington,
VT.
Tho two prizes for the best general
standing in I'll subjects were as follows.
First prize of so, George Henry San
born
Second prize of s25 William Edward
Donning
The exercises were of an unusually
pleasant character. The weather which Is
often extremely warm al the time of the
exercises. was cool and comfortable and
another new feature was the comforting
of the degrees by the governor OF the
State.
| on the stage were seated some 30 gentle
men, including the members of the faculty
of the medical and academical DEPART
ments, clergymen Of the city. members of
the medical profession and guests
! The programme was opered with a selec-
ton from the orchestra rendered while the
graduating class Of &c men. led by Marshal
Joseph Abner Dow, marched from the
rooms below to seats in the front of the
auditorium. The exercises were opened
with prayer offered by Rev. C. l.. Hall
of this city, and after another selection by
the orchestra Gen. o. o. Howard was pre-
seated and delivered the address of the
| evening as follows
GEN. HOwARD's ADDRESS.
1T is said that man OF ordinary wit
becomes a veritable doctor by the age
of forty; but l have always claimed that
there was one subject in which was new
er proficient, and that was medicine How
ever, We men and women get our own
notions and often strive as hard as We
can to keep down the doctors bill For
this purpose we are sure to find a fad
corresponding to different periods of Nt,.
These fads have to do with all sorts OF
things youthful sports. base ball and foot
ball, running races playing croquet and
tennis and later with the arsto-Catic
game Of golf. We pass through the snow
or bath, salt water bathing and other vafi-
Gus water cures accompanied with the
friction of towels. more or less coarse ac-
cording to the tenderness or hardness of
the cuticle. The American gymnasium
has health promise beginning with wrest-
ling, jumping and passing along the scale
Of pulling. pushing. lifting. rope-walkins,
parallel bars and every kind of athletic
and acrobatc performance. or course
there ace the military fads where the
heels are placed together and the should
ers Strengthened. and the system Is COM
pleted by prolonged and deep breathing
4
whore the system is kept forever pure and
active by tri-daiy applications, it being
very bothersome to take the dose in odd
places and one hour before each meal
And Oh. who could count up the different
experimental diets equal in number 20 pa
tent medicines without limit. Sometimes
meat is on the lead. sometimes coarse
bread, better black than white; these cure
every dyspeptic tendency. Now, again
rure alcohol will cure all the ills of hu
n.anity, and now all alcohol is poison
|, which as beverage or medicine )cad'
, straight to drunkenness and death. A.
present the system is renovated, clea' sed
enlightened and kept impervious to dis
ease by mineral water. beautiful, spark
Eng and delicious; but of these POLAND
water, said to be the purest on record
and kept by all druggists, fills large Jar
and frlJns in the household. These fad'
are simply suggestive. They need neNel
too much health, because it is only once
= in a while that a man is born who passes
through childhood and youth and man
. hood and on to old age and is nnally gath
= cred to his fathers, without giving some
medical man a chance to experiment up'l
his wonderful mechanism. ! do NOT know
: OF a man, or woman, within my recol1ec
ton that hasn't had something the mat
ter at some time during my lengthy ac
quaintance. AS hearty as ! myself nav
: been. ! was very i'll, so | am told, at tn
age befote | could catch fad or contro
il. The mumps. the sore throat, whlci
: have at last obtained scientific names, III
a chicken pox, the whOopng cough and sew
, eral other childrens' affections gave M
; each a blow and passed on. l was. how
ever, properly Vaccinated and hoped I
, escape not only the small poN but tn
! measles; but before | was thirty the mea
l sles speckled me with their beauty spot
aud arrested my course and at last shI
. NE up for at least two weeks As Wit
> myself. so with my companions. l regre
c these are but hints. Humanity cannot as
IL cape sickness, sorrow, pain and death. :
that there will always be in the held O
r medicine a wide range of observation, o
g investigation, of opportunity TO 2Xercls
q all the functions of your grand professiH
h SCIENCE, AND PRACTICE ASSURED.
I Surely shoes will always ne wanted. The
[ are common If not an absolute necessit!
= So will medicine be wanted in all its 70
/, tency and almost infinite divisions. Bu
/, YOU could not expect soldier to cnliShto
II You on any point touching that myster!ou
and scientific supply; and you have alread
e had four years of close study to acquair
i yourselves with its existence and It's saw
}, in. ana killing uses; and you have Lad
= along the ablast men of the age to brn
n YOU up to the highest points yet rcache
l. nv the scouts and skirmiSherS of your pre-