Norwich bulletin., 1915-05-18
DOCTORS IN ANNUAL BANQUET
Norwich Physicians Enjoy Social Evening With Good Things
to Eat and Good Speeches to Listen to-Dr. James j.
Donohue Elected Presid@nt-$25 Voted to Belgian Ply
sicians' Relief Fund.

of the doctors who a year ago had
taken him on q tour about the city,
This year the trip had been omitted
so that the mayor concluded the streets
must be in much better condition. His
Honor spoke of the custom of publish
ing in the selectmens book the names
of people who have received help and
said he was very much opposed to
the practice and thought the names of
the deserving poor ought not to be
spread broadcast
Mayor T. c. Murphy was introduced
voir, the good credit of the city as in
Dictated by the sale of bonds, and he
went on to express his appreciation
of the cooperation of the citizens In
defeating the division of the city.
Practical or cuIturaI7
School Superintendent Edward ].
Graham waS the following speaker.
He said he proposed to speak upon a
question that has been under contro-
versy, nation and world wide. for the
last ten years. Shall We have practi-
cal education or cultural education
But why, said Superintendent Ora
ham, choose one or the other as long
as both are within the grasp of our
children? There has been a demand
Tor something in our curriculum to
| retain our pupils longer in the grades.
With this in view, we have been in
| Producing more Of the practical in edu-
cation in the last ten years. It has
been because of the demand and in
the communities where it has been
| are retained in the grades than be-
fore.
In an interesting way Mr.. Graham
went on to show how methods of
| teaching have changed in reading,
arithmetic geogra ply, and other stud
les that 70
would hardly recognize in their new
| garb. The new way attempts to de-
Velop in the child independence of
thought and expression. In teaching
physiology one of the greatest changes
has been made, for it is now princi-
pa1ly concerned with hygiene and
sanitation.
During the past year domestic sci
ence and manual training through
woodwork have been introduced into
the Norwich schools, and besides there
has been a course of ten lessons in
domestic science attended by about IS
people. The course had SO many ap-
plicants that a number had to be
turned away.
It is the ambition for the children
of Norwich to make of them men and
women who may be independent think
ers and independent workers, an end
that may eb attained by letting prac-
teal and cultural education grow OF
gether to the harvest.
His talk was greatly appreciated
and favorably commented upon by
some of those who spoke later in the
evening in an informal way.
Our Friend, the Doctor.
Our Friend, the Doctor, was a toast
to which Mr.. Libby made a humorous
response that was greatly enjoyed. He
spoke as follows:
After dinner speeches have been di-
vided into three classes. First. in
structive; second, amusing, and third,
simply, punk. In such a gathering of
erudite gentlemen it would be pre-
Stunning too much on my part to try
to be instructive. 1t is not in my
power to be amusing, and so 1 will
ask for your kind indulgence for only
few minutes.
The art of healing seems to date as
far back as recorded history. Heal
ing for hire was prophesied in the fifth
chapter of the second book of Kings.
You remember that Naaman, captain
of the host of the king of Syria, went
unto the king of Israel to be cured
of leprosy. And he departed and
took with him ten talents of silver.
and six thousand pieces of gold, and
ten changes of raiment." He was cured,
but not charged any fee wherein per-
hapS the old time healer may have
differed somewhat from the present
Qdy pcdcC1C1OnGr.
There were originally three great
professions. and the old proverb says:
Hide nothing from thy minister ply
stefan, and lawyer" Men in all three
branches of professional endeavor have
been in a tremendously close confiden-
tial relation to mankind and a great
service to humanity. But like every
thing really worth while they have
had their critics. One proverb ex-
presses it: Fond of doctors, little
health; Fond of lawyers, little wealth. -
Holmes in a lecture before the Har-
ward Medical school said: It firmly
believe that if the whole materia med
lea could be sunk to the bottom of the
sea, it would be all the better for
mankind and all the worse for the
fishes" Quarles in the Hieroglyphics
of the Life of Man says: physicians
of all men, are naost happy. whatever
good success soever they have, the
world proclaimeth; and what faults
they commit the earth covereth." Was
Shakespeare in his Macbeth criticising
the profession of simply prophesying
Christian Science when he wrote: 1.-THE
patient must minister to himself,
Throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of
it." So cases might be multiplied.
One philosopher issued words of
wisdom and truth when he wrote:
physicians are jQked at only when
we are we'll" Judge Ben Lindsay well
how much we do for ourselves, but
how much we do for others: 1t seems
To NE that really the whole life of a
physician is to serve others and
therefore he is a valuable asset to So
Getty.
He belongs to the firm Of Watch &
Waite.
And another is Attit, Early, and
L4ayte.
And still another is Doc & Dairet.
But the best is probably Grim &.
| Barrett.
The physician is a peculiar sort of
| man, different from all others. His
business from a monetary point of
view is to cure diseases, yet gener-
| ously he spends most of his time and
though in trying to prevent it. Each
prevention is, one less cure. The ply
sician today can truly sing with
Browne in his Religio Medici: 81
feel not within me those sordid and
uuchristian desires of my profession
I do not secretly implore and wish for
plaques, repoice at famines" He is
still tradition bound to the extent OF
writing his prescriptions in Latin
but he writes his bill in good plain
English. For his own use he has
| satisfied himself that medicines are
not meant to feed on. Fortunate man
for doctors mistakes are buried siz