The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-06-07
NURSES GRADUATION
Misses H0n0ra Brennan, Nj, Inez
rliChelson and Mrs. Lunstedt
Granted Diplomas.
Graduating Exercises of Northwestern
Hospital Class Held at Opera
House Last Thursday.

Northwestern Hospital Training
School for Nurses we're held at the
Jesmer opera house on Thursday
evening, May 81, and the three ladies
entitled thereto, viz, Misses Honora
Brennan, NJ. Inez Nicholson and Mrs.
Alice Lundstedt, we're presented with
their diplomas. The great interest
taken in this well-known medical and
surgical institution, the Northwestern
hospital, was fully manifested by the
large assemblage present at the grad
uatlon exercises-an assemblage which
packed the big opera hall to the
doors.
DR.. and Mrs. Cooney had arranged
for this occasion program which
would have done credit to an event of
similar nature in any of the great city
hospitals, and it was carried out in a
manner which could scarcely be i'm
proved upon.
The spacious opera-house stage was
converted into a veritable garden of
the gods. AS the society girl said of
her deliberately enfowered Easter
roof garden, it was "a perfect dream. :"
The tall palms of the tropics, pro-
fusely interspersed with native and
exotic potted flowers, upon which
shone the rays from the numerous
electric bulbs, presented a scene re-
splendent in it's attractiveness.
Anderson's orchestra, supplemented
by artists from Anoka, Minneapolis
and Milaca, provided the instrumental
numbers in the exercises.
The program, as rendered, with the
addresses necessarily curtailed, fol-
lows:
An overture by the orchestra which
was enthusiastically received, opened
the exercises, and this was followed
by an invocation offered by Rev.
Henderson. Mrs. Alice Lundstedt,
one of the graduates then delivered an
essay entitled, "All Attachments the
Result of Effort" in we'll merited
manner. A portion of this essay is
hereunder printed:
We have looked forward to this &C.
casion as the GROWING reward of our
labors. It is with humility, yet with
a degree of pride that we stand on the
threshold of our career as trained
nurses. The satisfaction pronounced
by our friends more than repays our
labors in the school. For this we
have labored, ever mindful of our aim
in life, serving others for Christ's
sake. Our training among the sick
and dying has taught US how and why
to live, not for ourselves alone, but
for our fellow creatures. We have
chosen difficult and responsible pro-
fession. The public expects a great
deal from us. To us it trusts it's lives
and those of it's dear ones. It is our
duty to prove ourselves worthy of this
confidence. y \ X A nurse cannot too
soon convince herself that she must
have all her faculties under control,
and must possess in an eminent degree
that calm dignity so essential. She
must remember that she is the con-
Meeting link between the physician and
the patient, responsible to one and for
the other. She is called to
minister to all sorts of characters, re-
fined, rough, capricious, ungrateful,
good and bad, and must see in all
Gods image. For the time being she
must make herself the guardian and
friend of each, never losing sight of
her responsibility of doing good.
She must preserve serenity of coun-
tenance. sweetness of manner and
voice which are sunshine in a sick
room.
A vocal solo, "Voices of the Past, :"
was then delightfully."- rendered by Mrs.
81. G. Cooney, and the incessant en-
cores received by her were responded
to by the rendition of another solo.
Attorney E. L. Mcmillan was the next
on the program and he delivered a
most interesting address on 1.-The
Modern Nurse" In part he said:
This is an age of progress. De-
velopment is in the air we breathe.
The greatest discoveries no longer ex-
cite even "a nine days wonder.' The
most marvellous inventions create but
passing interest. The most brilliant
medical or surgical success is accepted
as a matter of course. We look only
at the result, and take no account of
the slow toiling years that produced
the result; and we rarely recall condi-
lions as they were. In his day of
skilled surgery, it is hard to realize
that operations were once performed
with instruments heated white, to scar
the flesh they cut, and thus retard the
flow of blood; that antiseptics we're
unknown, and wounds were dressed
with boiling oil; that such frightful
torture was unrelieved nv anastbo+;oe