Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-22
Have Their Day At
BCWdOin College.
Sixteen Graduate from
The Medical School.
u -
Two Presentations by The Bow
doin Dramatic Club.
Pres. and Mrs. Hyde Tender
Reception in The Evening.
Phi Beta Kappa meeilng--Alumni
Reunlon-.0verseers' Business.

Brunswick, Me-, June 21.-(SpeciaD
The program of the 106th Com
mencement at Bowdoin was continued
\ Wednesday morning when the gradual
Nion exercises of the Medical School of
Maine were held. Shortly after nine
o'clock the Senior class of the Medical
School assembled in front of Adams
Hall, the Medical Building, and then
headed by Chambers Band of Port
land an the faculty of the school, and
followed by the alumni arranged in
the order of their classes, they march,
ed to the Kings Chapel, and from
there to the Church on the HIP
where the graduation exercises were
held.
The exercises commenced with
music furnished by Chambers Or
ehestra. After an inspiring prayer
had been delivered ane some more
musical selections had been rendered
by the orchestra. Franklin Conant
Payson, A. NJ, of Portland, member
of the board of trustees, delivered the
Address to the graduating class. He
81 jim part as follows:
Address to Graduates.
II may he stated as a true general
proposition that every successful ac-
compIishment in material things. and
every successful life which is lived is
the result of a carefully prepared plan
or purpose, judiciously modified as
circumstances may from time To time
require. but always persistently fol-
lowed Eyerx. important material en-
terprise is begun with a definite plan.
completion of which is often only
after years OF patient industry and
unfailing perseverance. No better IL
lustration of this can be found than in
the life of that distinguished son of
Bowdoin, A lmiral Peary. who after %
years of endeavor reached the goal of
his ambition. -
But it must not be overhoked that
Athe making of the pls1S&$ Pie forming
n the purpose is cd2ssla 9kvely easy
almost useless uaaf Widowed by
mplishment. And1A-tte. sugges-
81 bring to you NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
IL though it may b.,Ns That you.
mile on the threshold of your
sen nrofession, begin with a deli
purpose which, ii conscientiously
iklsNfd. MIL be certain to bring YOU
xfha eress which you desire.
Eyd h,r the first time. you go
ii aeducated men, either manfully
Fneetor weakly TO shirk the peeu
obligations which your special
aiming and your great opportunities
kpose upon you. Take long breath,
pen, get a good start, and resolve to
IAN hard and an honorable race. Re-
solve To so conduct yourselves that
you can each truthfuliy say at the end.
Il have fought Il good fight. | have
\ finished my course, have kept the
kalth.''
1t is not our purposes to speak at
kength of the characteristics which
Fou. as physicians. should possess.
You will recall those required by the
Hindoo doctors. namely: Decorum,
chastity, humanity. generosity. dill
gence. temperance. modesty, veracity,
secrecy amiability, meekness. prompt
\ ness, independence and intellectually
Cultivate these. and you cannot fall
far short of the full performance of
your obligations to your profession, to
your patients. and to yourselves Fail
in any one of them. and to that extent
you fail to fully meet the obligations
traits to be afflrmatively desired in the
practice of your profession.
Some things. on the contrary, are to
be avoided. Avoid jealousy. See to
it that you do your part in removing
those miserable iealousies which
sometimes keep your profession from
being what it undoubtedly should be,
zone of the greatest and most infiuen-
tial organizations of society,"" You
will also do well to avoid ignorant and
malicious criticisms of institutions
Wa which you do not happen to be
eonNS Pted. Above all avoid both I'M
due @mmercialsm and undue narrow
ness in the practice of your profession.
There can be no doubt that the doctor
or the lawyer who practices his pro-
fession primarily, or even chiefly, as a
means of money getting, lowers both
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