Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-05-01
SEYENTYONE GET DEGREES
Professional Students Of Creighton
University Are Graduated.
Ex WOMEN GIVEN DIPLOMAS
DeNAa PFosema Candidates-OIass In
AnndRsGns ne ereatest-aen Of
Noso Are Speakers on
Occasion.


Noto Are Speakers on
Occasion.
6svsnty-ona young doctors, dentists and
iawyers, members Of the class OF II Of
those three professional schools Of Creigh-
ton university, were handed the rolls Of
parchment which give them the right 60
practice their chosen calllngs, Saturday
at the Brandsis theatsr.
Massed on the stage in q body and clothed
in the solemn black of the academic COS
tune. heightened in effect by the dashea
OF color afforded by the tassels on the
noTtas boards. that symboiized the pro-
fessiou OF the wearer, the class presented
an imposing appearance TO the crowd that
filled the theater on the other side OF the
footlightR
Six young women were included in the
class. five OF them among the IN. DIS"
and one among the dentists.
Tha candidates were presented by the
deans OF the three schools, DR.. D. O.
Bryant OF the medical. T. J. Mahoney OF
the law, and Dir A II. Nipple Of the
deptistry school The degrees were con-
ferred by President Eugene A. Magevney.
Manoath 3. Reese, chief Justice OF the
supreme court of Nebraska, administered
> the oath OF the lawyers.
The class In medicine presented the lars-
cot enrolment, numbering torty-three mem.
bers. The class in dentistry followed with
nineteen members. and the class in law
with nine members
DR.. walsh = Speaker.
Dr.. James j. walsh, dean OF Fordham
University Medical college Of New York
City, prominent in this country and in
Europe as = writer and lecturer, delivered
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Hpanino suhjsot, Professional Life and
Community Interests"
DR.. Walsh was introduced by Paul l.
Martini newly elected dean Of the univer-
sfty, IN 9. brief speech IN which he gave
resume OF the work done by the univer-
sityNnd tbs brilliant prospects Of the insti-
tuition.
II Dr.. Walsh's address was an eloquent ex-
hertation to the graduates for the altruism
that takes into account not only indlvid Ial
interests but community interests as we'll
There has been the feeling In recent
years." said the speaker, shat the gradu-
ates OF our universities have not Gone as
muoh for us. that Is, for the general good
OF the people, Is might we'll have been
expeotsd OF them. It has happened in a
great many cases that when inveBtiga-
tons into political graft took place. while
the little graeterv were the uneducated
the big men higher up werS very often
indeed almost invariably college men
When. for instance 0ols business Is found
corrupting legiBlatuf Is and securing privi-
leges, and when huge abuses are found In
Ansurance and banking and great railroad
corporations. moro often than not the men
who are guilty are college men. The direct
ors OF big corporations who have allowed
themselves TO be used for dishonest pur-
poses and often for political trickery were
very frequently graduates and pest gradu-
atas Of ptr universities
AIAsconstructiOn of the Code.
'rhere has come to be the feeling that
professional men have not that nice sense
OF HONOR nor that sympathy for the weaker
ones In the community that should char
aoteTixe really educated men. There have
been people who have ventured TO say that
as a consequence of this the huge capt.
TALKED institutions that were being built
: up In our generation for educational pur-
poses would IN q not distant future fail
UndaR the ban Of confiscation. because
they were being used to the advantage Of
the Glasses against the masses.
~ThoFa h some reason for saying that
been q loose rail- A section gang had
education somstimss produces only q re-
ALPHABETICALLY
grave danger OF ifs doing this. There is
good reason fOr the complaint that our
educated Glasses are not taking as much
interest IN the government OF the country,
In politics IN a better sense and in the
good OF the community as they are bound
TO hx tho advantages that they have hAd."
Points to Great Examples.
Helding them up as examples OF the
n hnA m
kkstched the lives Of two distinguished
taysioians and surgeons, Sir William
Kingston and DR. Thomas Adds Emmett,
the fornsS dead. the other now living.
Temptations ia work.
There are temptations in professional
work first TO preocoupation with self and
secondly TO preoccupation with the making
Of money that u quite unworthy Of pro-
fessional life and dignity. The professional
man receives his education out OF the great
BODY OF knowledge that has been &C
d cumnlated by his predecessors In the pro-
tession. He il bound therefore not alone 70
make a success OF his profession. not alone
to make money out OF 1t. but TO help to
extend its influence. A physician must
not only make money, but must make
medicine. His professional experience must
help his brother. lawyer must not only
Il
lust than II was to the community before
70 that his life work shall count for some
thing for men and not alone for himself
"It has been we'll said the only charity
really worth while lie that which does as
nueA good to the giver as to the one who
receives II and charity which does not dc
that must be suspected not being charity
DIR. FOOte Makes address.
n.
Of the Creighton faculty. who In a shor,
pithy address paid eloquent tribute TO the
founders Of learning and the men who
are today working unacknowledged in thI
universities OF the world
"commencements." said Dr. Foote ''ar,
public tributes to the silent founders Of
our universities; for these institutions ar,
the logical results OF centuries OF pro
found thinkers and silent workers who's,
names the world has not known.
Some accessible areas" said the speaker
b prophecy, "near the center OF civilization