The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-04-04
DR.. THACH ADDRESSES
MEDICAL GRADUATES
Fourteenth Annual Commence
ment Held Last Night
TWENTY IN THE CLASS
Dean Wyman Presents Diplomas To
Young Men and DR.. L. C. Morris
Delivers Charge to the
Graduates.
TWENTY IN THE CLASS


its fourteenth annual commencement last
night at the Jefferson theatre, 16 young
men receiving diplomas in medicine and
four in pharmacy. DR. B. L. Wyman, dean
of the college, presented the diplomas
The feature of the exercises was the adj
dress of Dr. C. C. Thach, president of
the Alabama Polytechnic institute, and
the charge by DIR. L. c. Morris.
The young men receiving diplomas werc
Medicine-Alfred c. Brake. Alabama;
Stephen Sampson Busby, Alabama VIII
liam Charles Farrar. Alabama; Hugh
Lyle Hough, South Carolina; Ernest AL
| good Hendrix Texas; David Samuel Moor,
Alabama; Joseph Arthur Minus, South
Carolina; Frank Carroll Mcguire, Ala
bama; Wade Augustus Martin, Alabama !;
Samuel Franklin NASH Alabama; Stiax
| Porter, Louisiana; Hill Ernest Pearce,
| Alabama; Samuel Robert Sanders, Ala
bama; Howard Hurley Sorrell, Alabama;
Ohio Randolph Sgrest. Alabama; Victor
| Hugo Williams, Alabama
Pharmacy-Diimas Cross Duncan, vir-
gil Clarence Jenkins, Charlie Arthur
Knight, Charlie ]. Reid.
The following physicians are members
of the faculty of the college:
| B. L. Wyman, A. M. NJ. D., LII. D.,
dean.
]. D. S. Davis, M. D., LII. D.
| r. NJ. Cunningham M. D.
| l.. G. Woodson, M. D.
Lewis c. Morris, M. d.
| Mack Rogers, NJ. D.
| D. F. Talley, A. NJ, NJ. D.
James S. McLester, A. NJ, M. d.
E. p. Hogan, A. B., A. NJ.
| f. A. Lupton, M. Sc, M. d.
w. P. McAdory, A. B., M. D.
| Thomas D. Parke, NJ. D.
| w. H. Wilder, NJ d.
]. ID. Heacock, M. D.
| A. f. Toole NJ. d.
| w. Thompson Berry, B. S., NJ D.
e. Fl. Sholl, A. B., M. D.
| ]. L. Worcester, M. d.
| George A. Hogan, B. S., NJ. d.
Robert Nelson, M. d.
Kennith Bradford, M. d.
| j. H Edmondson, NJ. D.
| The address by DR.. Thach was along
the line of higher education, urging the
young men just graduating to take ad-
vantage of each opportunity and also
dwelling on the necessity of accuracy at
| all times in their profession
Year by year there is a general ele.
walton in medical education" he said
| rd of a611o ;e,, ~
more difficult, and the terms of admis-
sion to medical courses correspondence
| severe. Your own institution is worthy
of all honor for the effort toward a high
er standard for a medical diploma
"In {, word, the whole trend of medical
| education and of medical practice today
| goes to establish most firmly the propo.
sition which l have attempted to main,
tain, namely, that the medical profession
is one of the most scientific and difficult
| of all the learned professions, requiring
for its intelligent and successful prac-
tice the very highest intellectual power
| and the most rigid preliminary and pro-
fessional training. And l further add
that so long as we have with US the
mystery of life and death, so long will
the broadcast scope of speculation and re-
search, leading it's votary to the wides
boundary of thought and to the lofties
plan of manhood
THE poet, Coleridge once said that
every man might nave two versions Of
his Bible; the book he read, the othel
the trade he pursued, where he could
| find perpetual illustrations of every Bible
| truth in the thoughts which his occupa-
! ton might open to him. l would say
| less fancifully, that every honest occu-
patton to which man sets his hand would
raise him into a philosopher If he mas
| tered all the knowledge that belonged
to his craft Every productive occupa-
| ton, even the meanest, if followed as
siduously and honestly with desire tc
understand everything connected with it
is an ascending stair, whose summit is
| nowhere and from the successive stages
of which the horizon of knowledge per
petually enlarges. If a doctor has it in
him to become a great man, he can as
cend through his profession to any height
to which his talents are equal.
"Such is the ideal of education. Such
| is the ideal of your profession that
offer you. And what is a man withou,
| an ideal?"
NEW BADGES FOR MEN.