Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-05-28

edifice was Respondent with national and
class colors, palms and flowers The bal
cony balustrades We're draped with yell
low and purple. with green sprays inter
| tWlned; the boxes were hung with the
stars and stripes, while over the stage a
huge floral class emblem was thanked by
flag festoOns.
One-quarter of large eight-page pro-
gram was enacted last night 1t an
nounced that the exercises were the com
mencement of the medical and dental
schools The schools of law, comparative
Jurisprudence and diplomacy will occupy
the same stage tonight and the Column
bian College. the Corcoran Scientific School
and the school Of graduate studies tomor-
row evening
The faculty and graduates arranged
themselves on the stage at o'clock All
Wore black gowns and mortar-board caps
with tassels While the audience was be
ing seated the Marine Band, under the di-
rectiOn Of Lieut.. Santelnann, rendered sew
eral selection, including an overture by
Suppe, excerpts from Foxy CUTLER" and
Sousa's march, Hail to the Spirit Of Lib
erty.' The regular exercises were opened
with an invocation by the Right Rev
Henry Y Satterlee, ID. After a clarinet
solo by Mr.. Jacques Eanpoucke of the Ma
r1ne Band the candidates for degrees in
medicine We're presented by DR.. E. A de
schweinitZ, dean of the medical school.
The Graduates.
Five graduates came forward at a time
AS they did so Rev. DR. Samuel H. Greene
president of the university, presented them
with their degrees, and DR. Sterling Ruffin
placed over their shoulders a hood of
| black, blue and orange cloth, as symbolic
of their progression. DIR. W. f. Musgrave
who is now in Manila, was the only absent
member of the class. Those who responded
to their names were: Messrs Franklin At
kinson. Adolphus b. Bennett, jr.; Harry
| Lee Brown, Thomas ]. Wilson Brown, b.
s; Clifton Power Clark, B. s., Phar. D.;
Henry Franklin Collins, William Thorn
wall Davis, William Russell Eastman Phi
D.; Paul Lamar Freeman. Thomas Sand
ford Dunaway Grasty, Herman e Kit
tredge, Harry A; March. B, s; James
Widgery Marshall Z. L. Mason, Walter
Hibbard Merrill, b. L.; Samuel Jonathan
Morris, Baxter Morton A. b, b. s.; w. E.
Musgrave, William Robert Perkins, Phar
D; John Matthew Pulliam Phar. D.: Will
Leroy Pyles, Doctrine Hugh Reed, George
Marshall Robinson. Robert Lee Russell,
b. s.; Harry Wood Tobias Il. E. and Clar-
ence Clayton Walker. A b.
Class in Dentistry.
Before the members of the class in dem
tistry were called to receive their honors
a selection from "Traviata" was rendered
by the Marine Band. The nine doctors of
dental surgery were then formally pre-
scented, and Dr. j. Hall Lewis, dean of the
dental school, conferred upon them their
diplomas, while orange and blue hoods,
lined with purple and black, were placed
on their shoulders by DIR. II. c. Thomp-
son. Those who received degrees in dem
tistry We're:
Messrs. John Robert de Farges. Albert
Luther Haselbarth, Charles Max Hassel-
bach, James Taylor McClenahan. John
Henry Wesler. Clinton Atwood Putnam
Richard Gill Richardson, Robert William
Rule and Howard Freeman Smith.
The Addresses.
In a brief address DR.. Greene then well
coined the graduates into their respective
professions. He said they would go forth
with the hearty well wishes and fervent
benediction of the institution which they
were leaving. The address of the evening
was delivered by DR.. G.. E. de Schweinitz
of jefferson Medical College Philadelphia
DIR. Sehweinitz addressed himself directly
to the profession. He took for his sub
ject Six Notable American Medical
Achievements, among which he included
ID The experiments of DR.. William Beau
mont on the action of the gastric juice
published in 1898. which, as DR.. w. T. Por-
ter has said. gave the first real knowledge
of the behavior of the normal and catarrhal
mucous membrane toward foods and not q
few drugs, and which probably led to the
systematic use of fstulae in the study of
digestive processes" GU The differentia-
ton of the continued fevers, particularly
typhoid and typhus fever, for which the
medical world is largely indebted to the
papers published from 1897 to 1889 by w.
w. Gerhard, James Jackson, jr., Enoch
Hale, George c. Shattuck and Alfred Stie
CD The impetus given to the study of sur
gical pathology in this country by the pub
LEGATION in 1899 by Samuel d. Gross of his
volumes entitled THE Elements of Path
illogical Anatomy" 90 The reform in
medical practice, so far as puerperal cases
were concerned, largely brought about by
| Oliver Wendell Holmes paper on THE
CONSCIOUSNESS of Puerperal Fever" read
before the Boston Society for Medical I'm
provement in April 1913. 90 The study OF
the Physiological action of drugs so notably
stimulated by the publication of Dr. Hora-
ITO {. Woods work on Therapeutics: It's
Principles and Practice" the first edition of
which appeared In 1879. 90 The announce
ment In 1879, and more deliberately in 1877,
by 5. Weir Mitchell of the so-called rest
cure treatment" by which the vitality of
feeble people, especially such as were suf-
fering from functional nervous diseases,
Is renewed by combination of entire rest
ana excessive feeding made possible by
steady use of massage and electricity
Award of Prizes.
ne awarding of the several prizes given
by the university and it's professors was
last on the program although by no means
least in the minds of the graduates and
their expectant friends. DR.. Thomas San
ford Dunaway Grasty of the District of
Columbia distanced all competitors and
captured nearly every prize. In making the
announcements Dr. Sterling Rufin ex-
planned that II a student should be perfect
IN all MS StudleS from the beginning Of the