New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-24

! ,,,o,, tho adequacy of it's endowment.
| He ventured the suggestion mat uAe
bosnitaI which was started 80 years
ago on 100 guineas--a sum. as lts enter
! tanning historian. Mr.. Morris, SAYS that
/ might now run 1t for part OF single dsF,
| saw from breakfast 10 dinner unle-ha1
| shown what support could be secured
| from the British public for the highest
| kind of service. and could yet show IL
Or n far larger scale. IL had admirably
reached the generous instincts OF ths
Grocers' Guild AS would be long and
| gratefully remembered. But there were
| dozens OF other guilds equally interested
| in the prevention or relief OF human SUI
| fering The medical school the hospital
| had built up was warranted by the hos
| pital experience i'm asking now for the
modest endowment of 100000. of which
they were now a good many pounds
short.
| Proceeding. the speaker observed that
| in early days the duties Of the medical
/ profession were combined with those OK
! the priesthood. IL was not an I'M
natural alisnce-service TO God and ser
vice 10 humanity Even now that the
duties were divided, the physician ala
a work for the world second only to
that Of the priest. If, indeed. second 10
any The most perfect man That ever
walked this earth, the peasant OF Call
| lee healed the sick. and there could
be no more Divine course open 10 any
man than to follow reverently In His
footsteps. Having referred 10 the Work
OF the students. the Ambassador sald
their school was poor. like the hospital
all good schools and all good hospitals
were always poOr-but its recognition of
such merit as the students had displayed
was not niggardiy. The prizes 10 ltS
pupils after entrance amounted 10 thf
respectable sum Of t32o and those pre-
vioUsy gained. at entrance. in the FORM
OF scholarships. amounted TO t4Jl more.
Seven hundred and Seventy-one POUNDS
from their Alma Mater merely for tax
ing the trouble to profit by the taclIltic5
she offers you.
Well. what ncxt? Are YOU going now
to settle down in the conviction That
YOU know il all. that there rs nothing
more to learn that henCeforth your sole
duty is 10 pour out. without ever
taking the trouble again 10 pour IN
The sophomorss in our American coll
leges are often ieered AT as knowing
more at that calIow stage in their
academic career than they Will ever
know again in the whole cours" oC
their lives. Are YOU going 10 be tho
sophomorss OF your great profession?
The people who conquer the world
said Mr. Alfred Lyttleton, at their last
prize giving are those who continue 10
improve after forty years Of age. ana
even after fifty" Instances Illustrating
the truth Of that remark must occur TO
every one Of them The very discovery
of the circulation Of the blood, perharS
the greatest British contribution 10 tho
advance OF their profession-one Of the
greatest contributions. in fact IN tho
whole history OF the world-was made
by Harvey in his fftieth year. How
much poorer the world would have been
II Pasteur had stopped at forty, ~ Lis
ter. or Ashley Cooper. or John Hunter,
or Valentine Mott or their own Sir Will
lam BLIZZARD, How much would thew
all have lost if James Watt had stopped
at forty, or Arkwright. or Morse, or Edi-
SON.
Mr.. whitelaw Reid then presented thu
prizes