The Washington herald., 1908-05-21
Garfield Gives Advice.


After outlining the work done by the
graduates Of the institution in former
years. Secretary Garfield impaired words
OF advice and encouragement;
There is great need for your services
among those Of your race in the South,
said he, 1T is among the homes Of the
poorer classes that you can be OF most
good. With the training you have re-
ceived. you are in d position to elevate
the unfortunate and raise them to
higher plane Of cultivation. By following
this course you viii do a great good for
humanity.
"Freedmen's Hospital is considered by
all to be the best negro institution Of its
kind in the country. and the same IS true
Of the training school, from which you
will soon receive honors. Let each one
Of you go into life with the resolve to
be true exponen(s Of your school. and i'm
part TO others the good morals and
/ character which you have received here.
I will do all in my power 10 maintain
the high standard that has been made
by the Freedmen's Hospital and its train
| ing school"
Mr. Tyler said. in part:
There IS no profession higher than that
OF the nurse, There is no profession upon
which rests a greater responsibility than
that OF the nurse. There is no profession
/ SO exacting. and no profession that calls
for greater preparedness and higher
/ moral character than that OF the nurse.
To be a nurse-an intelligent and com
/ petent nurse-it means the greatest pos
| sible self-denial that others may be bene-
| fitted, The nurse, like the soldier who
storms the parapets. upon which are
mounted monster engines Of death. offers
her life, frequently, that others may live
Lift Up SisterhOod.
zone thing would urge upon you. as
women. and that is be determined. so
far as 1t lies in your power, that you
viii help lift up your common sisterhood.
and will help 10 arrest everything that
tends to restrict woman's sphere; deter
mined that no custom shall be privileged
no prejudice respected. no sentiment
revered that initiates against your purity
or your freedom.
Il believe woman should be free as
man is free. I believe that the absolute
/ freedom of woman will De the dawn Of
the day OF mans regeneration. I believe
that no man can raise a woman without
raising himself, and that no woman can
succeed without bringing success to man,
And no man has a right to exact OF
woman that which she may not right
/ fully exact of him. If man exacts pur-
ity in woman, he must render purity in
himself
Whenever you discover in man a
subtle influence for good, that influence
may invariably be traced to the infiu-
enee welded by some sainted mother or
by some woman between whom and the
man there exists a bond OF affection
that resists all that makes for evil"
Those who received diplomas were:
COrnelia Kelss Briggs. New York: Clara Skinner
Denning. New York; Kate Esmynia Douglass. Rhode
Island; Ads Carolyn Douglass. Massachusetts,; Vesta
Lee Donaldson Tennessee Julia FTay. West Indies.
gamima Smith Henderson. New York; Bertie La
benia Jones. Pennsylvania; Katie Beatrice Murphy
District ef Columbia Beatrice Eugenia Nicholas
Maryland: Eva May Proctor. New jersey: Alics
kloise Robinson, South Carolina, and Angus
Reynolds. Ohio