New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-12
DOCTORS CELEBRATE.
p. 6 S. alumni Observe Colleges
Centennial at DeImOniCO s.

The alumni dinner celebrating the centennial OF
the charter grant TO the College or physicians
and Surgeons was held last night in the ballroom
of DeIfaoncos. Fifth avenue and 44th street
About two hundred of the alumni present,
representing classes from 1852 down TO the last
few years.
Dr. T. NJ. Cheesman, president of the alumni
association was the POSTMASTER of the evening.
The speakers were President Nicholas Murray But
Ter of Columbia University. Dean Lambert of the
College of Physicians and Surgeons, the Rev Dr.
Aked, pastor of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church;
DR.. Darlington, president Of the Board OF Health
and G. L. Rives.
Dr. Butler in his opening remarks. reviewed the
progress made in all branches of science since the
charter of the college first granted. We can
scarcely realize to-day" he said that when THIS
college first founded there were not only no
electric lights Illuminating gas, but not even
were there ordinary sulphur matches with which
TO start a fire The sciences, gentlemen, upon
which your art is built have likewise been widened
and deepened to most remarkable extent in the
last decade"
Continuing Dr. Butler spoke Of the degree Of
bachelor OF medicine. which has dropped from
use and been entirely supplanted by the doctors
degree. He said he could not help feeling that
there was disadvantage in the loss of the distnc
ton between the youngest graduate and man who
had accomplished POSTGRADUATE work An incentive
for such work and for original investigation was
essential TO advancement in the knowledge of the
healing art. he thought. because unless the spirit
bers OF this profession, they grow sterile and fall
back from he general advance of THIS age.
Dean Lambert devoted himself to the needs of the
college Of which he is dean. The most urgent
need Of the college IS for a university hospital
he said The numerous medical colleges OF this
city have beer able to compete with those of other
cities only by the mere weight If the number OF
clinics in New York.
The feeling of a patient that he will not receive
the best possible attention 10y being used in clinic
Is as absurd as that ambulance surgeon IS al
ways "A brute, or that hospital superntendents
transfer patients to keep down the death rate IN
the institutions"
When DR.. Aked called by the postmaster he
said he had been informed only five minutes be
called attention in his remarks. especially, to the
Improvement in modern methods OF sanitation.
citing numerous references in the works OF Mae
aulay to the Nth which used 70 prevail among all
classes high and low. Dr. Aked quoted one in
stance in which judges the bench had to use
for fear Of contracting diseases from the criminals
brought before them. Prisons to-day, he said.
the cleanest and most sanitary places in the cOun-
try.
Specimen letters Of those sent 70 the Board Of
Health were read by Or. Darlington TO give the
diners taste Of the humorous side OF his work.
IN closing he explained the stand his department
took in regard to the care of children attending
the public schools. sa wing he considered II the duty
OF the department to investigate the condition of
the children and then turn them 70 practising
physicians when treatment was needed
l. B. Bangs. To- chairman Of the COMMITTEES 10
select the winner Of the Cartwright prize. offered
by the alumni association announced that the
say. The Physiology OF the Senses and the Be
havor Of the Dancing Mouse" by r. NJ. Yerkes.
Of Cambridge, Mass. had been selected the prize