Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-06-30
ALUMNI DAY At
THE UNIVERSITY
Graduates Pay Tribute to De.
ceased Trustee and Member
CT Faculty.
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educate'' we must Judge It by what it
produces. And in proof that it does
educate. and educate well. he read list
- some Of tho more prominent graduates
Af the medical department. one needed but
% hear II to he convinced Of the efficiency
u this branch Of the university Of tho
'alihrc Of tho mon whom II sends into the
world
Then Or. King still further drove home
'is arguments by another array of poets
tivins many special instances of the
brilliant achievements of Vermont men
n TIC field OF medicine and surgery.
Tho following arc samples: Or. Smaller
?. 1.awton. 81. superintendent al the in
'tltution In T'rattleboro: Dr. Don D.
Trout, ~. Mt Waterbury,; DR.. II. L.
Palmer, 80, at tho state hospital In Utica
y. v. and s. w. Hamilton VI. D.. acad,
~. enc Of w.. palwcr's assistants: Or. c.
=. Drew. 81, superintendent OF the Wor-
ester city hospital; DR.. Morgan 49,
todSE'ns. 90 superintendent of the Re-
roat for Ep!leptics nj Palmer Mass ;
i'r. Arthur V. Goss. Sc superintendent
Of tho hospital at Taunton, Mass: Dr.
J. l.. Greene. "a, after three years in
oharEe of the State hospital at Kankakee
ILL.,. was last fall appointed as State alien
Isl His Office is in the capitol at SPRING
Held. H.. and he has charge OF all tina
insane. epncptic and feeble minded OF the
whole state. Fourteen Thousand Of those
Nards or the State are under his care and
his office disburses s35C0,ooo annually.
Another Of our men. Dr. c. y. Haskell,
second prize man in 80. Is in TIE Post
GRADUATE School and Hospital. New York
CITY, as instructor ana chief or clinics
IN the department Of nervous and mental
diseases ami is also lecturer during the
summer months. IN the class of 1891 were
:, Turkey, who afterward passed the ex-
animation for admission to the United
states army and later United States navy
lie resigned after serving eight years;
also Japan student OF 81. who IL now
srrgeon-general of the japanese navy.
DR.. King said that the recent alta cks
m the medical profession and on medical
colleges are not we'll founded in all
instances. though there are many cases
where they are justified
HIt all colleges go through periods Of
oppression from which they recover
Medical education has been deficient in
the pat but it Is improving rapidly
c9ough 10 satisfy the most eXacting Tho
reason Why one college is better than an
other Is simply matter of gold and sill
yer. For this reason Vermont must have
money, and then more money Medical
education Is one OF the most extensive
things in the world.
There are not TOO many doct ,-s IA has
'een falsely said. There are noc enough
rood doctors turned out to supply the de-
niand. for they are becoming rcarce
The people Of Vermont can well AFFORD
20 give all tho money needed TO its school
e medicine 90 long as It educates men
for great usefulness in preventing or
.csseninE the Ills Of flesh and spirit Our
r2en are az tall in the world" as tho
s"aduates Of any other medical college
c. A CATI.IN
e. a. Catin Of Providence, r l., fol-
lowed Dr King and briefly gavc !, resume
o. his end OF the financial affairs of the
university. Mr. Cotlin said that he had
! cen looking forward to the necessity Of
ising sl5Nt0o for the centennial endow-
ment fund but found on rea ching Burling-
ton that $1,000 Of second sVbsc riptions
lad been raised, that 1880 had come in
through the efforts OF Elias lyman, that
Darwin j. Kingsley had brought sl1.oo1
rom New York. and" said AZ. Catlin
president Ruckham. God bias; him
thousand fold. has secured $4,000" Mr..
cabin promised that the trustees wouli