The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1911-04-28

The closing exercises of Meharry
Medical College at Ryman Auditori-
UNI Tuesday night We're witnessed by
about 5000 people, and every one
present could not but have gone away
feeling inspired for having been pres
ent. Promptly at half past seven
o'clock the class of one hundred and
six young men and women marched
down the aisle to the strains Of thu
Professional March played by Miss
Maymie E. Braden, Dean of the Musi-
cal Department of Walden University.
There were graduates in medicine,
dentistry, pharmacy and nurse-train-
ing. After the class was seated the
audience sang "All Hail the Power Of
Jesus Name" led by the Walden
Glee Club. Divine blessings were in
voked, after which the young mems
Glee Club sang Faust's Soldiers
Chorus" At the conclusion of the
song by the Glee Club complete ST.
lence came over the vast assemblage
only to break forth in deafening ap-
plause when the familiar figure of DR..
R. H. Boyd was recognized and with
him a man who was recognized by
some as DR.. c. T. Walker, of Angus
ia, Ga, who was to deliver the prin-
cipal address.
DR.. Hubbard presented DR.. Walker
amid cheers and waving of handker
chiefs.
In beginning his address, DR.. Walk
er first paid tribute to both the work
of the school and to Dr. Hubbard
dean of the institution.
81 am highly and inexpressibly
gratified to be present at the com
mencelnent exercises of this grand in
= stitution, a school that has made {
: magnificent contribution to the eleva
ton of my race in sending forth no
be army of men and women to re
Leve distress, heal miseries and tt
dry up tears
A tribute to DR.. Hubbard paid b!
the speaker was the occasion of lon!
,, continued applause by the colored peo
, pie. His subject was "The Physician
and the People"
! "I have felt for many years tha
, the entire race, of which 1 am mem
ber, ought, in some tangible way, ex
press gratitude to DR.. Hubbard fol
faithful service rendered our people
for more than a quarter of a cen
tury He has done service and honor
the magnitude of which eternity
alone will reveal" he declared. "H'
lis indeed a philanthropist. The great
est philanthropy Is not In the larg'
sums of money given out Of his prince
ly munificence, but the most libera
contribution an individual can givt
a to a worthy cause is to give himself
1t is the sincere prayer of my peopl'
that the great old gentleman may ye
be spared many years to serve a
Dean of Meharry Medical College, ant
when he comes to the close OF his long
useful life, like shock Of corn, full.
ripe in its season, there receive iron
. the Judge of all the earth an imper1sh
a, a, able crown of unfading luster upol
= his deathless brow"
: He referred to the true physician
> as a humanitarian and said that h
= was a great factor in Gods grea
-; plan for humanity. Medical scienc
! has done much, he stated, in combat
ting diseases and increasing the lon
gevity of mankind. He thought it
wonderful privilege to live in tn
twentieth century, as it Is the centur,
I. of thought, OF constructive effort, com
: mercial expansion and intelligen
: progress.
e "It is a great privilege to be iden
: tilted with race, as is ours" he de
j clared. 1--WE proved our loyalty dul
f ing the trying days of the sixties. w
:. have accumulated 375,00O homes, hav
e invested $40,0OO,OOO dollars in churcl
property, own 200 high schools an
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