The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-12-06
HUBBARD HOS
PITAL DEDICATED
EXERCISES HELD IN THE ME-
HARRY AUDITORIUM.
The Elect of Nashville Assemble to
Do Honor to the occasion-Many
Notable Characters Present
Speakers Pay High Tribute
to DR.. Hubbard and Be-
speak Great Future
for the New
Hospital

The formal dedication of the COM
pleted George w. Hubbard Hospital
was observed Friday, November 29th,
in the Meharry Auditorium. Every
Iavailable seat in the Meharry Audito-
rum was occupied before the exer-
cises began. Seated on the platform
were many of the leading men of
Nashville and other parts of the coun-
Itry. Among them were three bishops
|of the Methodist Episcopal Church
and one of the A. M. E. Church Also
one of the secretaries of the Freed
mems Aid Society and other promi-
nent leaders in educationaI work. A
conspicuous character, who graced
the occasion, was Mr.. ]. A. Patton,
the proprietor of the Patton Hotel,
of Chattanooga.
Dean Hubbard, in his usual simple
manner, opened the exercises and in
vited the first speaker of the day in
the person of Bishop Evans Tyree,
D. D., of the African Methodist Epis-
lcopal Church. Before the speaker be-
gan DR.. Hubbard announced that
there would be no long speeches, but
that everyone would be asked to con-
fine his remarks within ten minutes.
Bishop Tyree said: CDR. Hubbard
has asked that we speak only ten
minutes. That is a long. time if one
hasn't much to say, while on the
other hand, if he has anything to
say, he can say a great deal in ten
minutes. The most have to say is
THAT | am glad to be here at this
Ihour today when we are here to de-
dicate this building. 1t has been
long time on the way, but it has come
mot too early, and l hope, not too
late He spoke of the great need
of hospitals to all people and especial
1 ly to the Negro people whose NOR
tality is alarming Continuing he
! said: Among the ways to check NOR
tdlity. is to protect the people from
exposure to the malady of disease.
Some people have a mistaken idea of
hospitals. l am glad to say, how
ever" continued the speaker, that
the Negroes are learning to appreci-
ate such institutions. Thirty years
ago to speak of going to a hospital
to a Negro would cause as mucn
alarm almost as if you spoke to him
about going to the grave. But today
the condition is quite different. They
are learning that the hospital is an
institution that is especially prepared
to care for the sick and to relieve
the suffering. When look around at
DR.. Hubbard, whom I have known
for over thirty years, am glad to be
here today to congratulate him. All
of these years he has labored and
has spent the flower of his life in
the work of educating and training
an oppressed people in the science of
medicine and surgery. Step by step,
guided by Providence, this man has
built up great institution that has
done much and is doing a great deal
today in preparing men and women
to work in higher civilization.
These higher steps of civilization can
not be appreciated by crewd people.
hut as the Negro race grows in intel
ligence we learn to appreciate more
and more the higher things of life.
/ remember the first Negro man |
ever saw graduate in medicine. DR..
Jamison was his name. There we're
six in his class, and we have seen
this number increase from six to one
hundred, and We would be as much
surprised to see a class graduate from
\ Meharry now with less than hun
1 dred as we were surprised at that
time to see six graduate. Those were
the days Of small things, and this is
the day of small things, but it is an
opening to greater things The door
now stands ajar, and it's the oppor-
tunity of the people of this race
represent to go in through the door.
The next speaker was Bishop G..
H. Phillips, of the c. M. E. Church.
He said: "Mr. Chairman, I assure you
this is happy occasion to me. This
day day marks a new era in the life
and history of Meharry Medical Col
lege It is natural for me to be in
terested in this occasion, being, as
] am, graduate from the Literary
Department of Central Tennessee Col
lege, and later from the Medical De
partment Of MehaTry. I have watch
ed the growth of this institution. This
growth has not only been in the num-
ber of students graduated, but in
many other ways. These students
who go out form Meharry take their
places in the world as citizens of the
highest type and they use their influ-
ence for good among the people Of
their respective communities. I
graduated thirty years ago in a class
of s. I confess to you that what
might have been a fairly good physi-
clan has been converted into poor
preacher. I never could become ac-
customed to the social equality of ca
davers Always when I went to the
dissecting room I saw to 1t that sew
eral of my classmates accompanied