The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-04-27
IN MEDICINE, DENTISTRY, PHAR-
MACY AND NURSE TRAIN
ING GET DIPLOMAS.
Equipment of School:
Greatly Enlarged by Completion of
Hubbard Hospital, the Outgrowth
OF the Ambition Of DIR. Boyd, the
Founder of Pioneer Hospital For
Negroes.
Irregular Correspondence. }


Nashville, Tenn, April 25-This
is commencement week at Meharrv
Medical College of Walden Univcr-
slty. The baccalaureate sermon was
preached last Sunday morning in
the Alcharry Auditorium by DR.. Alex
ander Of the NJ. E. church South. He
gave the young doctors" some good
advice and his address was a rare
treat to the rest of the congregation
as we'll.
The graduation exercises are being
held IN the large Ryman Auditorium
tonight ana there are graduates in
medicine, dentistry, pharmacy and
nurse-training. DR.. Y. r. Walker,
John Rockfeller's pastor from Au-
gusta, Ca" is to deliver the COM
mencement address.
Meharry is doing good work in
/ the preparation Of men for work in
| medicine. 1t has reached a high
water mark in it's enrolment and the
authorities are still laboring to raise
It's scholastic, standard. This has un-
dergone a considerable change Since
the last school year.
Some new departments have also
been: made in the equipment of the
school for the work it is doing. The
completion of the Hubbard Hospital
is the most important of these. It
IS a three-story building planned with
the purpose of making additions from
time to time. It's different depart
ments are sufficiently large and fit
ted to do the work being done now
but il the school continues to grow i'm
sthe future as in the past the new
additions will have to be made at
a very early date. There is an op-
Grating room; a comfortable kitchen
and dinning apartment for patients
and nurses as well; a lecture hall
and reception room for both visi-
tors and patients are among the
other attractive features of the hos
pital. ---------.--.- .---. -f.ur,- IN h tt
The Hubbard hospital is very
largely the outgrowth of the ambi-
tious zeal of DR.. Robert +. Boyd who
was the first to plant the hospital
spirit among the Nashville colored
people and who has cultivated it
all along at the Meharry Medical Col
lege. In this particular, he has con-
tributed more perhaps to Meharry
and its growth than any of it's facul-
ty members. He established Mercy
Hospital and for d long time the
hospital established and conducted
by Drr-Boyd- furnished -onlLop=-
portunity the Mehasry students had
| in this line. When Hubbard Hos
pttal was completed, the operations
| of the students were transferred
| there where they properly belong
While Hubbard Hospital bears the
| name Of DR.. Hubbard, the Dean Of
! Meharry, it Is fitting altogether that
| the service rendered by his pupil, DR..
Robert f. Boyd, in the creation Of
| the new addition to Meharry should
not be overlooked. DR.. Boyd is
credited with being one Of the very
best physicians in the South.
Meharry has on it's faculty many
of the best physicians Of Nashville.
|They are drawn from both races and
it Is not likely that the young men
who attended this institution will suf-
Yer for the proper instruction in
| the science Of medicine If they go to
Meharry we'll prepared to take up
the subject. Poor preparation for
Ientrance in a good school is a1ways
the worst possible obstacle in the
way Of doing successful work.
The school year at Meharry has
been extended also from five months
to seven. This Is one of the wisest
Of the changes made during the past
lschOol year. 1t is impossible for q
man to learn as much medicine study
ing five months in the year as one
who grindS away for nine months OF
the year and then goes directly into 8
first class hospital to secure valua-
bic experience and practice. In time
the half-trained physicians who are
making good now must give away tC
competition for the people are pay
ing for science now and have stopped
tplacing their premium on color az
= Twas formerly the case in many In
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