Evening journal., 1915-11-05
Three GRADUATES IN
FIRSTP. IS. Glass
DR.. ]. P. Pyle Tells Nurses
of Their High Calling and
Wishes Them Well
DANCE FOLLOWS
GRADUATION

The first commencement OF the Ply
sicians and Surgeons Hospital was
aeld, in the hospital last evening,
when three graduate nurses received
lisplomas and their class pins. The
Young nurses are Miss Greta Thomp-
son and, Miss Ethel Walthers, Of this
city. and Miss Marguerite Glenn, of
Centreville, Del. The diploma presen-
lation was made in the presence of
large number of friends of the gradu-
ates and the hospital by DR.. J. p. Pyle.
the address to the graduates was
made by John f. Malloy. the we'll
known attorney Of this city.
Music was furnished by Doctor Nc
Empee's Orchestra and Mrs. Jean Ogle
McGillin sang several selections. Doc
tor Pyle, addressing the graduates
said:
There is a phrase often heard on
occasions like the present one-a
phrase that is likely to give you little
pause in the midst Of these. cere.
monies that mark the momentous step
which you are now taking from your
lays of studentship into the wider,
more strenuous arena OF the world
This phrase runs somewhat as fol-
lows: In granting you your coveted
diploma, the Physicians and Surgeons
Hospital admits you to all the rights
and privileges which appertain to this
disploma throughout the world
And what, we may well ask, are
these rights. these privileges appertain
inc to vour diploma Your specih,
training has equipped you for the per
Torrance of a specific task-you are t1
care for the property, the liberties ano
the lives ol yotw fellowmen you are sent
forth intola conhdng world to guid'
yourselves In IL. and. in due time Others
alto diagnose and remedy its ills, to us
i.uch instruments of precision IN knowl
edge. training and skill as your par
ticular education has entrusted int
your hands Now your privileges a.
trained women are an extension and nj
more. a refinement of your rights as IN
diyiduals. There is an old doctrine o
CARLYLE which YOU will find nOwher'
better stated than In the vigorou
words of that noble book, Sartor Resar
tus. In all situations out of the pit o
Tophet. he goes on TO say wherein
living man has stood or can stand ther
is actually q prize OF quite infinite valu
within his reach, namely a duty Tor hln
TO do the right and inlmutable obliga
lion and privileges TO labor.
"And lastly, there is the privilege o
service-to help the needy, TO feed tn
hungry, to teach the ignorant and max
clean those soiled in the ways of I'll
world-all these things are service. Il
heal tue sick. succor the distressed, ad
minister consolation 10 the bereaved-
all these things, too, are service. An
all honor TO the truo-hearted wome
Who give of their fulness, their labo
md tleir forethoueht TO all these no6l
.nds and the innumerablc others b
which American charity and helpfulne'
o our fclloNmen has become recognize
and appreciated throughout tine world,
This hospital needs your help AM
7our service, not as an obligation Z
>1e discharged like debt. but as
entiment of affection of devotion, o
allegiance. You do not leave this hos
:. ,ital behind you, as an episode il
your life. completed when you leav
ier wards. Every step Of yours for