The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-06-03
Commencement Of Medical
College Concludes With
Great Gathering lnCity Au-
ditorium Hearing Of Progress
Its Largest Class
Receives Degrees
Necessity For Guarding Public
Health Opening Broad Field.
Solidarity. Service, Success.
the Ambitions of Greater
College

Aoiiege
The spirit OF fellowship making for
harmonious accord among the alum
nj. among the graduates of this wear.
ana among all other bodies in and
OF the Medical College of Virginia,
whose annual commencement was
concluded last night, the democratic.
spirit on which is based the fouuda-
ton Of cooperation. and the absence
OF the spirit Of controversy, were
marked in the bearing Of all partici-
pattng ard in the words If the speak
ers who addressed themselves II tho
graduates and to- the great croy. J at
tending the 5pal exercises AT ths C1f~
auditorium
The chief address Of tho ev Mrs
was b. DIR. J. A. Terrell, director 81
the National Sanitary commission
who laid before the class and the 2ua-
up TO the medical profession in the
need for public health officials
Shed Fellowship Spirit.
Other speakers heard were more
general perhaps in their addresses
al OF which were brief and their
thought seemed dominated by the
presence of the fellowship spirit.
DIR 5. G Mitchell. president Of the
Medical College of Virginia. presided
over the exercises. introducing tn turn
Dr, Ferret. +. L. Eenli&s. vice rresi-
dent Of the board Of visitors Of the
college. and Or Stuart Mcclure. dean
of the college. Members Of the f.
crff-y- tU tT0ar5 6f VISITORS ard The
graduating class. numb lis. had
seats on tire platform Music VAS ~
kessnichs orchestra.
AT the close ct the addresses there
was read by Or Mitchell the list Of
hospital appointments which were
completed late Yesterday Or Nit
chell called graduates as they fled
through in a long line before those
seated on the stage to receive their
diplomas This portion of the e1er-
ctses consumed more than half an
hour. and as each Of the graduates
received his degree there ca me from
the great han the plaudits of his
friends.
Dine On Roof Garden.
The ceremonies of CONNIE ceu1ent
over the alumni dfnea IN the root ot
the Hotel Richmond There Was g2e-
speeehmaking. hu; dnrins the hour
or more the dinner was on. the facul-
ty, alumni and members IL the visit
ing board cGfnmuned and the fellow
ship spirit was strong
After the class was N sts place
In the auditorium ard after THE big
hall had IT, seats filed with the
friends OF the graduates members of
the alumni and many 81 the represen-
tative citizens ard ladies nj Rinh-
mond. DIR ] j GravaW opened the
program with tine invocation
DR.. Mitchell. after expressing his
pleasure Al the marked success ~
the first year of the new Medical
College of Virginia the first year If
its existence since the merger of the
Medical college and the University
of Medicine. and forseeing that the
future Ia to make the institution one
ct the greatest OF It's kind in the
country. as IL now Is the greatest be-
tween the Potomac and the Savannah
drawing from territory possessed
Of population of ten million. pre-
senteds DR.. John A. Terrell. of Wash
ingtonj
Broad Field Opens.
DR. Farrell. whose theme was
Public Health Work As u Career.
spoke IN part as follows:
The medical profession has always
made strong appeal 10 young men
Of dne character, as offering a career
unsurpassed II opportunities for real
human service IL l. essentially that
tVDc III pfolfSSl6El- ANh1N ~ NAAii AtD
rapid dcveiopmcr. al tho science Of
preventive medicine, the opportuni-
ties are sti.l greater. and the appeal
to young men of high aims stronger
than ever before, Particularly is this
true In the COM arattvely new field OF
public health service
Good Health Engineer.
This' is the day of the efficiency on
pert The public health officer Is an
efficiency engineer In the most i'm
portant department os human life
good health. He ia a constructive
searcher after truth. Instead of
tamping and patching up tho ma
chinery hero ard there, he builds
ancw. 10 has TO know the Whole
works not merely ono process; he
deals with society as a whole. instead
of with few separate units. Trans
lated into the terms OF his calling. his
task is 10 keep all the people we'll and
strong. instead of concerning himself
only with tho unfortunates who come
to him in dire necessity Economical
", he is q wholesaler, free and I'M
restricted IN hts operations dealing
In q commodity everybody wants.
rather than a retailer whom. eener-
ally speaking, nobody wishes TO do
business with. He Is the servant OF
the community, tied to no man. but
free to do : his duty as he sees it,
that duty be to purge a Cuba
Of yellow fever, clean a pestilentiai
Panama. or wipe out The double
scourge of hookworm and TYPHOID
from some rural community. The
public health officer Is dependent fer
hiS material rewards, not upon hap
hazard personal fees. but upon the
good faith OF a public which is fast
learning to pay adequately for ad
oQuata service by experts.
For young man on the threshold
64 h1D career, however. there are GER
1n&A v>ry practical points 70 he con-
1|1&ngoA Al least three questions may
~ 3Gn4a - any vocation. whether II
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