The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-05-21
.ANURSE GRADUATES
Commencement Exercises of North
western Hospital Are Held at
"a the Methodist Church.
Hiss Bertha Brewster Presented With
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: Diploma by DR.. H. c. Cooney
, 50.
:, Wednesday Evening.


Last evening the graduating exer-
scises ,;of the Northwestern Hospital
., Training School for Nurses were held
at'the Methodist Episcopal church and
Miss. Bertha Brewster was presented
by DR.. Cooney with her diploma.
The large assemblage present at the
commencement exercises fully demon
strated the interest manifested in this
widely known medical and sur
gical institution the Northwestern
hospital.
For this occasion program had
been arranged which would have done
credit to an event of similar nature in
any of the metropolitan hospitals, and
its rendition could hardly have been
improved upon.
The church was deliberately deco
rated with palms interspersed with
native potted flowers and exotics,
which produced an enchanting effect.
Following is the program as
rendered, with the addresses of Miss
Brewster and DR.. Cooney in verbatim:
The exercises commenced with a
selection by ladies' chorus and
thereafter Rev. j. W. Heard offered
the invocation. This was followed by
a selection entitled 1.-The Song of the
Sea" rendered in an excellent manner
by a double quartet of male and
female voices. Rev. Geo. A. Swert-
Eager then delivered an able and ap-
prOpriate address and Miss Frances
Peterson followed with very pleasing
reading entitled "Hagar." Mrs.
Cooney and Chas. Kopp then rendered
a vocal duet entitled "a Night in
Venice" in their usual superb style.
Miss Bertha Brewster, the graduate
from the Northwestern hospital, came
next with an essay entitled "The
Profession of Nursing,' which she
delivered in a we'll merited manner.
She spoke as follows:
Tie Profession of Nursing.
Side by side on the sands of history
and of time lie the broad footprints
of man and the more slender foot
prints of woman, each equally as
important in creating the highway to
the goal of perfect achievement.
While this is true of the history Of
music and art it is doubly true of
medicine, modern surgery, and
trained nursing.
Before the Introduction of hospital
training schools nursing could not
properly be called a profession.
Only few years ago these schools
were not in existence. But the world
awoke to the need of place where
the doctors work might be made more
efficient, and as result of this
demand institutions now exist
throughout the world where scientific
discovery and skilled nursing join
hands in the service for humanity.
The woman who enters the nurses
profession must be noble and broad
minded, she must possess not only
physical strength, but she must be
watchful, cheerful and filled with
charity, possessing a strength of
character which will inspire confidence
and respect.
Nursing is an art. and it requires
as thorough preparation and devo-
tion as exclusive as that of a painter
or sculptor.
My two years at the Northwestern
Training School have been years of
hard work, but I have obtained a
practical knowledge that could not
possibly have been gained in any
other way.
I wish to thank my instructors for
the interest they have taken in my
training, and in the future I shall
point to my diploma with pride and
with the satisfaction of knowing that
it has been obtained from an institu-
tion where modern methods of nursing
are taught and demonstrated with the
thoroughness and after the manner of
the great metropolitan hospitals.
Fine buildings and elaborate equip
ments may be and are, no doubt, of
great value, but it has been we'll said
that the laboratory in which the X-ray
was discovered contained but a
Crooks tube, lRhumkoff coil and
Roentgen himself.
''Let us not be so charmed with the
shell that We cast away the pearl"
TO the nurses who are going on with
the work at the Northwestern hospital
I would say: Your profession is a
noble one, but with it there is much to
endure and many obstacles to over
come. Be faithful in little things if
you wish for large results.
May our pilgrimage here be a
symphony whose harmonies will ring
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