Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-06

most precious of gems. Wear 1t all
 ways in plain sight and, if faithful to
 what it represents, when your work Is
 done and the roll call is heard your
 name will be found by the side of the
 good Samaritan.
 I am personally grateful to the man
 agement of this institution for the op-
 portunity of expressing my own and
 my colIea gues' admiration of your pro-
 ficiency, industry, courtesy and high
 moral and ladylll5e bearing.
 From this evening you are commis
 stoned to start on your life's work
 the relief of suffering humanity.
 We feel a great interest in your suc- cess and our best Vishes attend you.
 Nurses, it has been we'll said that the price of knowledge is eternal thought. Let it be your sacred duty to acquire knowledge. You have acquired the clements, the first principles. in this school, but at all times by night and by day, in the chambers of the sick, suffering and dying, you must continue to study and enlarge your store of in formation.
 Oh! what glorious privilege, how God-like. to still the aching brain, soothe the throbbing heart, administer restoratives to father mother or the child. and stay the hand of death. This IS truly noble and will repay a life of toii. Whether you succeed or fail, whether you prove. a blessing or q curse, whether your career. be for veal or for woe, depends wholly upon yourselves Should you unfortunately disgrace your calling to sinister or unhoiy purposes, you become the most of women. more to be shun- ned than @pestilence itself.
 There is another subject desire to 1 impress on your minds. In your inter | course with the sick observe truthful l ness and sincerity. These traits of | character in any relation of life are | a nj fJ7 y7Io iri1 I they are beyond price. There are | times when our progn osis of recovery | nay be honest, yet fatally erroneous 1 Here we err, but sin not. ITO your alse to anyone"
 In your attentions to the sick aI- ways be kind and humane A rough md abrupt manner is incompatible with the duties of a nurse. You should ather call all your wonnanly sympa- hies into action and treat your pa tent with kindness.
 Permit me to remind you that nurs- ng should be made your sole vocation Deceive not yourselves with vain an icipations of a life of ease and com ort. There are many hardstips diff1- ulties and trials which you must en = ounter and which demand self denial nd personal sacrifice. Night and day, umn1er's heat make no difference. our time cannot be regulated by any ight or ten hour law Tn a moment 1 l 5hen duty calls you arise and go
 Nurses. if you wish to glide safely trough the storms of life, preserve 2. heerfu1 and blessed hope under it's icissitudes. I earnestly counsel you [ all times and under all circum- tances to entertain an abiding faith I the presence and goodness of God. I l the language of an eloquent writer i ] he love of God smiles In the beauty l nd verdure of spring, and flows { rightly in the rippling waters It ngs in the simple and touching melo- ] les of nature and warbles and re- T rices in the shouts of the harvest. ' Your vocation is to cheer and soothe le sufferer through the hours of pain 1 t nd despondency, to whisper hope in t ie sick room where wonanIy traits c line brightest. \ In the unavoidable absence of,s the c resident of the hospital, awinslow T. 'd1lian1s. the diplomas were presented t