Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-07-02

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| outlined at the corporation dinner said
| he hoped to sec the laying of the corner
| stone of a new medical building. He
wanted the medical faculty to bear their
| full share of the work. lie said the new
| building was in that event more than "A
possibility, 1t was an assured fact. He
| told of his experience in approaching
rich men and that they always wanted
to know what the college and its alumni
were doing for themselves before gifts
were forthcoming His remarks were
| intcrspcrscd with witty advice as to how
doctors might influence their patients to
/. remember the university, and anecdotes
of the old professors.
The first toast was responded to by
the oldest living graduate of the univer-
sity. Dr. -. u. Smith of Plainlield.
DIR. Smith made one of the biggest hits
| of the evening. He first told of his class
of T. members and how important the
| smalincss of the class made each of the
| members. He gave the young doctors
| some good advice based on his own OK
perience and counscllcd them to follow
the advice of President Roosevelt and
beware of race suicide He advised each
gest class next year in the history of the
college and the problem is whore to put
the increasing numbers. There are over
LOO graduates, the doctor said. doing
honest and successful work. He believed
they were all in a position to give vary
many are able to give in the hundreds.
lie warned those present that he should
he after every man to help in the
Iood cause. Graduates must he prepared
to receive all sorts of literature for the
endowment fund is going to be raised. He
spoke of the suggestion that scholarships
he established and said that he was not
prepared to say that he favored them.
He thought that a student who had not
the stun i'll him to work hard for his
graduate to get married at AN early day
and thus see to it that departing they
left behind them little footprints on the
sands of time"
DIR. Tinkham was introduced as the
handsomcst dean in the country and also
as the young man on whom largely de-
pended the success of the medical de-
partmcnt of the future.
DIR. T1NKIIAMS REMARKS.
DIR. Tinkham explained that part of the
scheme in getting many of the alumni
together was that the project for the
raising of the centennial fund might be
properly launched and gain the support
of all graduates. He told of the college
having good teachers but poor facilities
and emphasized the crying need of a
new building. The limit in the further
use of the present building has beer
reached as every inch of room is now oc
Cupiod and classes are crowdng the
structure throughout the day. The medi
cal department is going to have the big
educanoh was not sure TO work nara tc
succeed after he had received it.
DIR KING.
DR.. King. the Oldest member of the
faculty. Of tho medical dcnartmcnt was
the next speaker.
DIR. King spoke of the old methods oi
instruction and compared them with those
of to-day. He spoke Of the silent part
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