Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-06-22
MEDICAL SCHOOL
Of Maine Graduates a
Glass Of Eighteen.
Address by Pres. D. n. Beach
Of Bangor Theological Sem.
Presentation Of Diplomas and Class March
The List Of New N. Us.

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brunswick, Me-, June 21.-(SpeciaD.-
The graduation exercises of the class
of 1905 of the Medical School of Maine
took place at 10 A. NJ. at the college
church. and was largely attended.
Shortly before that hour the members
of the graduating class formed in line
in front of the Medical building, and
headed by Payne's Second Regiment
Band of Lewiston marched to the
church. where the program was car
ried out.
The address Of the day was delivered
by President David Nelson Beach of
the Bangor Theological Seminary. The
speaker was introduced by President
Hyde IN pleasing manner, and after
Z graceful tribute to BowGoin as a rep
resentative small college, delivered u
splendid address to the members of the
class.
President Beach spoke as follows:
MIR. President. members of the Facul-
ty, gentlemen of the graduating class.
and friends of this noble institutions:
1t is great thing to belong to a pro-
fession which is ample in it's bounda-
ries. which appeals, which rewards.
which counts and which satisfies.
AS members of a profession which
closely parallels that of medicine, as
having closely observed for many years
in different parts of the United States
the medical profession, and as having
been from the first profoundly i'm
pressed with it's high service l wish to
speak of it i'm these several particulars.
AMPLE BOUNDARIES OF THE
PROFESSION.
First then, the profession of medicine
has ample boundaries. Even in its
crude primitive days it had. The med
icne man of savage tribes. the physi-
clans of Egypt and Greece and Rome
and the practitioners of all the periods
since-hOwever inadequate their
knowledge, and however mingled with
clever imrositions and with supersti-
lions their practice may have been
nevertheless had for fields of investiga-
| ton the world Of minerals, the world of
plants, the world of biology and that
| subtle thing Of life itself, in all its
mysterious wonder and might.
And, today. when a true science is
| ours; when true scientific methods are
| followed. when microscopy and the
| highest chemistry are called into use
and where it's ever deepening sympa-
| thy makes the world eager ana rcSpon
sive to every fresh medical discovery
| and surgical triumph; far more is this
the case.
| In fact so wide is the field that it be-
| comes not n question with the ever
| studious doctor, how he may escape
| .'ncnt-up Ithaca" in his calling, but
how he may pen it up. how he may
eliminate and denmark and specialize, IN
order 10 have practical as well as am
pie boundaries.
This then. is the first great glory "i
yoIr professionalism its possibilities
and opportunities are boundless-tha'
one can never reach its horticultural
| it ever goes on from more TO more
that the infinite craving of the NINA 1o'
knowledge and Of ambition FOR achieVe-
ment and of the heart for service. car
realize in the profession more ana more
even. and yet have always more worlds
to conquer
IT APPEALS.
The next glory, as ] count II, OF you'
profession, is that it appeals to the
Who'll, man. and it appeals even more
and yet more.
| Whv 10 IL that the true doctor never
grows old? that there is for him ne
"dead line of fifty" that, IL the rest OF
nc need chlorOfGrming at sixty, Dr
Osler and YOU gentlemen co not? Ii Is
beca,se never a day dawns win you
gentlemen but it brings noble chahc'
| ond never n noble chance but 1t deVei'
ono noble night to give battle TO tht
h;deons phantom of disease. IheS
said in Drumtochty that their doc.o'
had an "auld thrawn body theS
dc.med no form so bonnie and no race
ca fair is William MacLures.
Won recall that DIR. oliver Wendell
uo,n,os declared himself "eighty years
Young" Soon after tnat ne was :"
Shakespeare's Stratford, ana ne
membered that there was borh MAJ
who was the first to perform cer'an
ma ior operation in surgery when no"
from time to time, was saViis "'""'
lives and he added with an acce,i
which betrayed what his answer "ou't
be .sWould one rather have done Una
mr. have written one of Shakespeare
n,ats?" OF course. the Autocrat, VIII
All his passion for literature, woulo "a
Their have done that surgery, Tor ne .e'
;ts higher appeal, the appeal of surfer
ling humanity.
i IT REWARDS.
! Then the rewards Of your professor
ore sure. 1 mean. of course, TO thos
vino deserve them. There are men !,
YOUR calling. and in mine. ana IN a.
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