The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-04-06

orange blossom, how empty the
pageant, how momentous the occa-
sion.
You have not only been our leader
in the pursuit of scientific knowledge,
sir, but you have been our moral and
Christian leader as well. We would
have you know tina 1.-THE strenuous ef-
fort which you have made to stamp
indehbly upon our cardiac factors
those principles of Christian religion
has not at all benn failure, and as
soon as you shall certify our fitness
to meet the complications Of the outer
'warld, and as we shall make our part
ing bow to the crimson and black as
it swings from the dome of old Mehar-
ry, we leave you with the assurance,
sir. that out OF this, the greatest and
largest medical class in the world will
prove a great temple Of good, whose
dome will be the blue vault of heaven,
its illuminouts the eternal stars, its
pillows the everlasting hills, its
music the ripping rills, the hum Of
industry and the happy laughter Of
childhood, its ornaments, the woods
and bountiful fields, and its diafason
on which shall hang all the law, love
thy neighbor as thyself.
Fellow class mates, the day Of
your education as pupils under train
ed instructors is all over; your first
H.. q, oil rarrnrn1 hnnnnfnpth
you are to be sewers as well as reap
ers and your field is the world. Soon
we are to enter into relations with the
public. to extend our skill and knowl-
edge for its benefit and to receive our
support in the reward Of our lobor
How does your knowledge stand to-
day? What have you gained as a per-
manent possession? What must you
expect to forget? What yet remains
for you to learn? There are questions
which we will do well to consider
and there is another question which
must force itself on the thoughts Of
many among us, how am | to obtain
patients and to keep their confidence?
We have chosen a laborious calling
and have made many sacrifices to tit
ourselves for its successful pursuit. We
wish to be employed that we may be
useful and that we may receive the re-
ward of our industry. Since I am
chosen by you, then fellow class mates
to voice this fastidious occasion, let
me take the advantage Of these most
receptive moments to give you few
hints which may help you to realize
your hopes and perfect your expecta-
tions. Let me warn you against all
ambitious aspirations outside of your
profession. DO not dabble in the mud
dy sewer Of politics, nor linger by the
enchanted streams of literature, nor
dig in the far off fields for the hidden
waters of alien sciences. The medical
science, upheld by more than seven
thousand years of steady progress is
the most difficult of all sciences and
by far the most laborious of all arts,
and will take all your powers of body
and mind if you are faithful to it.
Your acquaintance with some OF
the accessory branches is greater than
it will be one year from now, much
greater than it will be ten years from
now. The progressive medical re-
search, it may be feared or hoped
will have out-run the textbooks in
which we have studied, some of these
various branches. Again fellow class
mates you are now fresh from the
lecture room and the laboratory, you
can pass an examination in anatomy,
physiology, chemistry, materia medi-
ca, obstetrics, gynecology and opthai-
mology which the men in large prac-
tice all about you would find more
potent sudarific than any in the phar-
macopia. These masters Of the heal
ing art were once as ready with their
answers as you are now, but they
have gotten rid of great deal of the
less Immediately practical part of
their acquisitions and you must under
go the same depicting process. We
can afford to forget many things
which yet it was well to learn. Your
mental condition is not the same as
if you had never known what you
now try in vain to recall. There is
perpetual metemscycosis of thought,
and the knowledge of today finds
soil in the forgotten facts of yester-
day You do not see anything in the
new season of the guano which you
placed last year about the roots of
your climbing plants, but it is blush
ing and breathing fragrance into your
trellised roses, it has scaled your porch
in the bee haunted honey suckle, by
the wind, the rain. the storm, the food
it's made its way to yonders valley
where the ivy is green, its gone where
the woodbine expands its luXuriant
foliage.
The Medical diploma which you
hope to receive a few days hence
seems very broad today with all
your list of accomplishments; but it
hegins to shrink from this hour like
lewn foliage before a beaming sun
Rut don't very about it; for all the
while there will he making out for
you fairer and ampler parchment, !
signed by old Rather Time himself as |
III CSlhCHJ VI bllul SlONl uhlNSiSi'y IA |
which experience is the one perpetu
al and all-sufficient professor. Your |
present plethora of requirements
will soon cure Itself. knowledge !
that is not wanted dies out like the !
pTes of fishes of the Mammoth Cave
When you come to handle life and
death as your daily business. your
memory will of itself bid goodbye
to such intimates as the well known
foramina of the sphenoid bone and
lie familiar oxides of Methyl-Ethyl.
Amyl-phenal-ammonium. But be
thankful that you have once known
them, and remember that even the
earned ignorance Of a nomenclature
Is something to have mastered ana
nay furnish pegs to hang facts up
III which otherwise would have
itrewn your floor of memory in
DOSE disorder.
CLASS NIGHT AT MEHARRY
MEDJrkT CnI ING1y