Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-06
MEDICAL GRADUATES
GET DIPLOMAS TONIGHT
Held at City Auditorium, When
DIR. POteat Speaks.
ALUMNI HEARS DIR. TAYLOR
Emeritus Professor OF Chemistry and
City Coroner Makes Address on
poison and Poisoners"-Dr. Cecil
Lectures This Morning.

preliminary to the formal commence
mcnt exercises of tho Medical College
OF Virginia tonight, when the di-
plonas VIII be delivered 10 the gradu-
atcS with addresses in the City Audi
forum. the board of visitors met yes
tcrday morning ut il o'clock and trans
acted routine business. and the Alumni
Association of the college spent n busy
day.
The meeting of tho association was
hetd last night in the old college build
ing. Or. William H. Taylor. emeritus
professor of chemistry and CITY Cor
oner. making the address. DR.. TAYLOR
spoke on Poison and Prisoners" Fol
lowing the meeting, the body adjourn
ed TO the new college building, Twelfth
ana clay Streets. where the annual
smoker Of the association was given to
nearly 300 people. and numerous
speeches were made.
The popular mind has always been
wonderfully enthralled" DR.. TAYLOR
said. by what seems to he tho mysti-
cal nature Of poisoning. For the gem
crafty Of people, poison and the pois-
oner possess peculiar fascination.
And indeed, poisoning has within it
self many Of the impressive features
of any awe inspiring tragedy dramati-
CallN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. horror, sudden
death mexorably inflicted by a mys-
terious. seemingly supcrhuman agency.
portant historical pcrSonag.S and
events. and has dinused it's ghastly
CLEAN over some OF the darkest spaces
in human destiny.
POISON ~ !, TRIrE:
WAY Of ENDING: LIFE
IF wc examine the matter coolly VIC
shah find that an exit b. poison is
merely Il very trite manner Of dying.
and in intrinsic grandeur or dignity
r. lot. i..- tNsI 81
is nothing very special In the phe-
noncna o! poisoning. II Is not my
purpose 10 say much about either the
scientific or practical parts Of my sub
ject These belong Ia the curriculum
of your studies. and were fully taught
to you in the lecture halls and labora-
tories OF our college"
Or Taylor told how poisoning had
been practiccd from the early days Of
mankind, and the practice OF killing
obnoxious persons by poisoning them
was continued. he said wear after year
and century after century with more
or less Vigor till at length IL became
systcmatizcd and was pursued as n
quasi Legitimate trade or profes sion.
and there even sprang up. in the par
lance OF our days. he remarked. poison
trusts"
At the formal exercises at the city
Auditorium tonight the Invocation
Will lie delivered by Rev. & Roger
Tyler. DR.. Stuart Mcclure, dean Of
the college. will make Il report of the
years work. while the address to the
graduating class will be made ny DIR.
William l.. Potcat. president OF Wake
Forest College. DIR. Mcclure viii con-
fer degrees on the graduates OF the
Medical College of Virginia, and DR..
J. +. Monroe. OF Charlotte, on the grad
mates Of the North Carolina Medical
College. Hospital appointments will
be announced.
The business session OF the alumni
association will be held this morning
ut 10 o'clock, the scientific sessions
starting at II o'clock. Outstanding on
the program OF technical discussions
will be an address by DR.. Russell l.. Cecil.
Of New York. on Some Recent Con
tributons to Our knowledge OF Acute
Rheumatic Fever" The discussion on
this paper will be opened by DIR. a. G.
Brown, y clinic Will he held at the
Memorial Hospital from - to . o'clock.
while the pharmacy and dental depart
ments Will hold discussions starting
at Il O'Clock.
The public is invited to attend the
exercises at the City Auditorium. No
tickets will be required.