Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1915-06-19
NIRSES PRESENTED DIPLOMAS
GRADUATE FROM LOCAL HOSPITAL
The Annapolis Emergency Hospital Training School for Nurses
Sends Out Three Trained Workers
as DANIEL R. RANDALL MAKES ADDRESS.
D, Murphy, Chief Of Hospital Staff Presents Diplomas
n Splendid Speech-Mr Randall Makes Stirring Speech
Ibis Theme "CaI to Arms" and Highest Ideal
of NObeSt Calling"

During this time my confreres ant
myself have been in most intimate
daily association with you. We have
| always found you cheerful pleasant
ever ready to render assistance. nc
matter how arduous the task, or how
inopportune time. frequently sac
rificing to duty precious moments oi
| your short recreation hours"
DR.. Murphy told them they were
about to leave the institution and to
depend upon their own resources
and,in closing said:
when you leave the Threshold OF
your Alma Mater you step into the
| broad road of life there to mingle with
the maelstrom Of humanity who are
fighting and straining for existence
Here is best eXemplified the survival
of the fittest. You meet here the
strong and the weak, the efficient and
the inefficient the good and the bad
the responsible and the irresponsible
They will try to- trample you down.
to push you aside.
Some will endeavor to lead you to
the bypaths of pleasure others to turn
you into lanes so attractive that YOU
may be tempted to forget the high
ideals OF your profession, but knowing
the training you have received and
having a knowledge of your high
ideals OF duty and integrity, | can see
you pressing ever onward over this
indeterminable highway. with firm,
steady steps, and your eyes focused
upon the goal of your professional
success, which is the crown of your
ambition.
Yours is the most noble profession
open to womanhood calling, as it
does, for those Godgiven feminine at
tributes OF LOVE, GENTLENESS,
FORBEARANCE, KNOWLEDGE and
SYMPATHY to those in afIliction.
When YOU look back over this thorny
path that you have travelled and can
feel that you have made the end more
easy for some poor mortals, and have
assisted poor. tortured souls on the
long journey to the great hereafter
from which there is no return. and
that you have been the Instrument in
alleviating suffering not only physi-
cal, but in those cases of mental and
nervous disorders. where the poor tor
tured mortals are surrounded Ivy the
black cyoud ofmelancholy and despair
with your womanly instinct and
professional skill you are enabled to
make a rift in this dark cloud, through
which you can direct the gaze of the
afflicted one TO the dawn OF new day
of hope which will fill them with JOY
and happiness. Then, indeed, you
have acquired success, not in accummu
lation of worldly goods but in a
knowledge OF duty we'll perfomed and
| deeds accomplished.
DR. Murphy, in closing, said the di-
ploma the graduate nurses were re-
ceiving bore the stamp of approval OF
their instructors. and of their Alma
/ Mater, and symbol that would en-
able them to go out into the world
and practice their profession. An
| Alma Mater is known by its graduates
/ What honor comes to the graduates
the AlmaMater will shine with reflect
ed glory. He also wished them to re
member opprobrium would come tC
/ the Alma Mater by their misdeeds