Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-23
MEDICAL SCHOOL GRADUATION.

WE CISHI oCHOOI GHADUA ION.
Brunswick, Me, June 22.-(SpeciaD.
The graduating exercises of the
Class of 1910 of the Medical School of
Maine. the medical department of
Bowdoin College, took place at $50
this morning. Shortly before that
hour the class and the medical faculty
formed in line in front of Adams hall
and led by the marshal, Joseph Drum
mond of Portland, marched to the
Church on the Hill" where the facul-
of the institution had seats on the
platform and the Glass of 1910 and
alumni sat in the front pews in the
body of the church. After music pray
er was offered by Rev. John Hastings
Quint, pastor of the Congregational
church, where the exercises were held.
This was followed by another musical
selection and the Hon. Clarence Hale
of Portland delivered the address to
the graduating class. He said in part
as follows:
almost two centuries ago Adam
Smith wrote The first lesson taught
by Nature herself is to take of the
human body and to preserve it in a
healthy state | have the honor and
pleasure of speaking to young men
who under the sanction of the c)l-
lege are today decreed to be doctors,
men learned in the art of enforcing
this first lesson of nature. The l'u-
man. machine is UNNECESSARILY The
most valuable and the most delicate
piece of mechanism in the world. 1t
is the duty of school of medicine to
equip a body of learned men to be MIS-
tiers of this machine. Under the :;u-
thority of a competent school you have
today become by title learned en-
The world has never given YOU the
title, the college has never before
given you the title. The college dis
avows the idea that it's undergraduate
are men of learning or that they ara
in college to get learning" He tl!en
quoted President Woodrow Wills On
where he says that college edura-
ton means only general awaken ng
and release of the faculties. He then
criticized the lack of esteem for schol-
arship prevalent in the American col
lege at this time. Continuing he
said, 81 think we may take just pride
that BOwdon has not been much in
yaded by this infantile disease. WI lie
we do not expect the undergraduate
to fill his mind with the laminated
piles of knowledge stored up by the
worlds scholars, we do expect him to
acquire the learning that teaches how
to learn and how to gain the mastery
over his own mind" He then said that
the graduate of the Medical School is
always esteemed to be learned, and
that the undertaking of the doctor Las
outgrown the traditions of the eide rs
Under the old regime he said, Iii
sease was thought to be decreed by
superior power. 1t could not be avoid
ed: lust so much disease has got to
happen; pain was the gift of God. In
| the early part of the last century the
most favored of the royal family cid
not have the means of maintaini ~
health which the poorest man in cur
community may have today About
twenty years ago | had the pleasure
of making an address to the Maia"
Academy of Medicine in which from
| the view of the layman, | talked ABOUT
| the things that the world has learn 81
since then. 1t is time that the people
should appreciate what the doctor faS
done not simply in the cure of disease
but in teaching people how to iiVe' IN
| teaching communities to deSlst ilo'
only from crime but from Dirt IN
| have not been satisfied in Wrltllg
| that Panama is a dollhouse OF disease
| they have made it healthy. 1t dld ROT
help the world much to be told mat
| the sleeping sickness was killing three
| hundred thousand human beings IN
| week. Ry the work of medical science
| the death rate is being appreclahiy
lowered When you give community
| n decreased death rate and healtnier
| birth rate. when you save human TAI
ent. the highest kind of human lahor
to a community. you are the guard
;ans of that something. At the last
commencement Harvard University
| conferred the honorary degree OF Doc
TOR Of Medicine on President Eliot ana
Dr Eliot regarded this as one of the
greatest honors of his life. 1t told
What the world thought of him and
still more what it thought of the
work of the doctors"
He then said that he was not there
simply to make a compliment 10 the
| profession but to make an appear 10
them and that appeal was that they De
| faithful: that every man was put some
| where to do something: that he must
! he loyal to the thing that he under
| takes and must not be prevented from
| doing 1t by the things happening
! about him. by friends, enemies or
Kings 1.-THE man who takes his time
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