The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-24
YALE'S MEDICAL SCHOOL

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 who sit down in the privacy of their chambers to make discoveries lack tine incentive to produce practical results which comes from actual contact with the outside world and with the hard and-fast conditions of nature. Hence, whenever hear complaints on the part Of busy practitioners or teachers of medicine that time is absorbed by rou- tine work, which in their judgment might be much more profltably spent in research work, do not always lend consenting ear to the complaint. I have known many laboratories where teaching was not required which failed to do the work for which they were es- tablished. I have known many other laboratories, seemingly overwhelmed by routine work, in which the daily dis charge of practical duties led to pro- longed and Iife-giving discoveries. I would say in passing that it seems to me that under the endowment of re- search work made by Andrew Carnegie at Washington, the decision not to build a laboratory for special research, but to seek out research workers among practical students in the various techni- ca, and professional laboratories of the country, is eminently wise and philo- sophical and well calculated to bring larger returns than would be possible in a single laboratory divorced from the everyday practical pursuits of a techni- cal school or university.
 .& S.A, l. are developed by the smaller colleges are frequently to be congratulated. They become self-reliant. they learn to meet difficulties, they study for love of knowledge and their enforced contact with nature stimulates the scientific sense and makes them productive workers. I have little sympathy too, with the study of problems which have no practical value and are mere intel lectual gymnastics.
 THE HARD BESET HAVE DONE z MOST.
 It is not those who have had the most abundant leisure or the best facilities for study who have accomplished the most Take the historian Parkman, with hi sfeeble health, his impaired eyesight and his general state of nervous ex- haustion, which often permitted no more than five minutes of effective la- Dor each day, and consider how much he accomplished by perseverance and by concentration of purpose and effort. Take Pasteur, not even a physician, and yet wrestling nightly and effec- lively with the problems of disease, handicapped by poverty, paralysis and inadequate laboratory facilities. Nor do such men belong wholly to the past. All students may draw inspiration and learn humility from a teacher of chem istry at a western university, who de- prived wholly of sight by cruel acci- dent has had the resolution and forti- tude to continue his work as teacher and investigator, and who has attained scientific results highly creditable to himself and to the institution with which he is connected. The search af- ter scientific truth has the advantage that it does not depend upon externals but rather upon the intellectual force of the individual; not upon the outward man, but the indwelling spirit.
 @ WORDS TO YOUNG DOCTORS.
 In your chosen profession, be stu dents and productive workers always. Do not look for speedy results and do not be discouraged if the secrets of na- ture are not wrested from her jealous grasp without severe struggle. The foundations of our art are broad and deep and the superstructure should be erected slowly and with care, by accu- rate observation of disease and pains- taking deductions. In your life as.phy- sicians be prepared for trials, disap- pointments and adversities. Take for your motto the words written by Sir clan, more than two centuries ago. "In this virtuous Voyage of Life hull not about like the Ark without the use of Rudder. Mast or Sail and bound for no Port. Let not disappointment cause Dependency not difficulty Despair Think not that you are sailing from Lima to Manila, when you may faster up the Rudder and sleep before the Wind; but expect rough Seas, Flaws and contrary Blasts; and 'tis we'll if by many cross Tacks and Veerings you ar rive at the Port; for we sleep in Lyons Skins in our Progress unto Virtue and we slide not, but climb unto it."
 Have purpose and carry it out with fortitude. There can be no more ab- sorbing or inspiring career than is af- forded by the study of medicine at the present time. The scaffolding reared