Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-14
DEGREES CONFERRED
Medical and Dental Gradu-
ates of Georgetown University
A NNUAL EXERCISES
ADDRESS BY PROF. E. L. KEYES
OF NEW YORK.
Diplomas Presented by Pres. Daugh-
erty-Hospital Appointments An
nounced-The Glass Officers.


The familiar "Hoya, hoya, saxa.' rang
out at frequent intervals last evening on
the campus at Georgetown College, as the
graduates of the school of medicine and
of the dental department of Georgetown
University received their degrees. The ex-
ercises were held amid most attractive sur
roundngs. The fifty-sixth commencement
of the school of medicine and Of the dem
tai department was held outdoors, beneath
an immense canvas canopy. The guests
occupied chairs on the lawns of the cam
pus. Music was rendered by the Marine
Band, the members being clad in uniforms
of white. Notwithstanding the warm tenn
perature the holding of the exercises in
the open air did away with the possibility
of any one in attendance being uncomfort-
able from the heat
The platform and the grounds nearby
were lighted by electricity, and palms
other potted plants and cut flowers were
used in profuson to add to the beauty of
the scene.
The degrees were conferrd by Rev. Je-
rome Daugherty. s. j., president of the
university: Dr. Paul Rowden Alden john
son spoke the valedictory; Prof. Edward L.
Keyes, jr., of New York delivered an ad-
dress to the graduates and DR.. Joseph Ia
Der Johnson made an announcement of hos
pital appointments. The several numbers
were interspersed with selections by the
band.
To the tones of stirring march the fac
ulty. the graduates and the special guests
proceeded from the college building and
took seats. In the center of the platform
were President Daugherty. Prof Keyes. DR..
George NJ. Kober, dean of the school of
medicine and DR.. William N. Cogan. dean
of the dental department On the right of
the audience were the faculty and special
guests, and on the left the graduates. clad
in mortarbOard caps and gowns. Those
the platform, in addition to the graduates
and the others named. were Drs. G. T.
Vaughan, Joseph Taber Johnson Samuel
S. Adams S. M. Burnett, Frank Baker,
John F. Moran. NJ. G. Motter, John u.
ward, Lynch. Stiles Behrend. Wall. Re-
petit. Richards, Schultz, O'Connor, Lowe
Hammett and Hunt.
Degrees Conferred.
In comforting the degrees President
Daugherty remarked that 'the doctor is
intrusted with our temporal welfare and IS.
next to the priest, the most important ad-
junct to society" One of the diplomas was
read, in Latin by the president AS the
deans of the respective schools called the
names the graduates in turn, stepped for
ward and received the diplomas. Each
graduate was greeted with applause and
yell The graduates were:
Degree of NJ. D.-John E. Brennan, Con-
necticut; William Barnett Harrison. Mis-
sissippi; Reynolds Hayden, District of CO.
lumbia Paul Bowen Alden Johnson, Dis
trict of Columbia; George Wilson Jones,
Maryland; Manuel l. NuneZ, Peru; Robert
OLSEN, Minnesota: Augustus Joseph A
Paragon. New York; Edward Parnell Pow
ers, Massachusetts; Michael /. Ready Dis
trict of Columbia: Frank William Romaine
District of Columbia; Edwin Carl Schneider
Virginia; Charles Benjamin Taylor Cali
fornia; Richard Francis Tobin District of
Columbia; Prentiss Wilson, District of CO.
lunbia; Robert A. c. Wollenberg Michigan
Degree of d. d. S.-James HI. Hart, Mas
sachusetts: Saul Sidney Jaffe, Russia; Otto
Frederick Kuehn, Indiana; Richard Francis
Mcdonald. New Hampshire; Frederick
Charles Perry. District of Columbia
DR.. Johnson, the valedictorian, pointed
out that until corfkaratively recent years
the knife and pain in surgery were consid-
cred inseparable. The mind of man, how
ever, conquered that situation. The speak
er described the first use of ether. All the
graduates, 1t was declared, will be inter-
eSted in GeOrgetown's success and upbuild-
ing, and on their behalf DR.. johnson pledged
alma mater hearty support. Turning to
his classmates, the valedictorian said, in
conclusion: With great enthusiasm we
wish each other God-speed."
Prof. Reyes Address.
Prof. Keyes, a graduate of Georgetown
ten years ago, began his address by saying:
You doctors of the graduating class, as YET
'guiltless of your countrys blood it is to
you particularly that L address my remarks,
for we old friends
Prof Keyes went on to say that COM
mencement day was a holiday He added
Let US not talk of work. Yesterday you
left the bare lecture hall and the aromatic
laboratory, tomorrow the scene shifts and
again you are back to toll. But today is
recess, freedom, triumph. We are free from
the confines of the class room; our books
are closed and sealed; our drugs our seal
pels, our -eetses and -eyetises are for the
moment forgotten. Our youth is gone; that
happy childhood, whose bloom and prattle
are all cobwebbed over and almost forgot
ten, mas ended Its days in the grim studies
of the battle with death, of how to fight
the losing tight, to struggle against the foe
who Is sure to win In the end That part
OF me Is over. True manhood the individ-
ual life, begins for you today"
After declaring that the physicians
family is all the world and that the best
OF scientific equipment may fail to make
declared
Yet there is one thing you can and
must do-know your work and love 1T.
Know that your work is to heal the
whole man. body and soul: know that the
Ills of body, in our generation, at least,
are OFTEN but results and replicas of ills
or soul; so that kindness, sympathy and
SeHlieHeSS are demanded of
turn. no less for the soothing of strained
nerves than for the handling of broken
limbs.
Sympathy is what your patients de-
mand OF YOU sympathy even more than
science. Think of Christian science and
all the kindred isms that live on SYM
pathy alone. Observe the busy DOCTOR
whose ruddy cheek and sleek, bedroom
manner are his chief claims to excellence
So learn that sympathy is what you need
more than anything else to make you
successful practitioner. Errors in diagno-
sis we all make and they are condoned
But harshness and GOODNESS are in the ma
ture Of things objectionable"
Trials Of Physician.
1t was remarked by the speaker that OF
all the trials a physician has to bear the
patients family is probably the worse. He
concluded his address as follows:
After all, you can only do your feeble
best, and in the battle with death you will
not always win. Indeed. in the end, you
will always lose. You may expect to cure
the disease called Life--you will be fortu-
do