The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-11
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 The platform had been artistically banked with palms and greeneries in tersperSed with lovely bouquets of cut flowers At the conclusion of the program quite a number of the grad uates were the recipients of bouquets which were brought up to them by the ushers. Several of the internes at the Hospital acted as ushers and escorted the guests to their seats.
 Dr. Day opened the exercises for the evening with an invocation after which David S. Day in introducing the speaker of the evening, pr. Winter nitz spoke as follows:
 Introduced By David S. Day.
 The address to the graduates was delivered by Dean Milton c. Winter nitz of Yale.
 The speaker was introduced by At torney David s. Day who said:
 +FI have frequently been brought in association with members of your profession, and the longer I live the more I respect the unselfiShness and devotion of your lives. Year in and year out, in war and in peace, our nurses render to our kind one of the g-raatest services any profession or class can render" After a word of advice to the graduates. MT. Day quoted the familiar description of Florence Nightingale and held her up as the perfect nurse. In conclusion MT. Day said: 'Under the leadership 
 is far on it's way to being second to none in the United States. l have been advised that the goal of Dr: Win ternitz is to place the Yale Medical modern methods of travel the dis tance from New Haven to Bridgeport is short Yale Medical School and Bridgeport Hospital will in my belief in the future come into closer rela- tions to the mutual help of each"
 DEAN MATHEMATICS ADDRESS
 In opening Dr. Winternitz disclalm- ed any qualifications as an expert on nursing or nursing educat1on ana ue- scribed himself as an iconoclast Nursing is changing rapidly" he de cIared, and that is something don't need to tell you, because you have heard it and read it." After refer ring briefly to the wider opportuni- ties open for women today, he secuted the idea that women were abandon ing the time-honOred profession Of nursing eve speak of a dearth of nurses he said, 'Ebut there isn't dearth of nurses. when you compare the number of women entering the nursing profession today with the number ten or fifteen years ago There are more women entering nurses, because nursing is changing with the evolution of medicine"
 FIVE YEAR MEDICAL COURSE
 pr. Winternitz then briefly de- ScrlDGu IDe cNOIhl4OlA O1 4itSHASAiIS from the two year course of thirty years ago to the four year course of today with the best medical schools having complete staffs even in the clinical years composed of men who devote their entire time to care of patients in the medical school hospi- tal, to the teaching of the student and tC investigations of problems associat- ed with their specialties, and predict ed that the next step would be a five medical
 RISE OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
 Passing from the educational as pect, Dr. Winternitz spoke of the great strides made in preventive medicine. saying in part: 'sWe are no longer satisfied with the results Of disease. We are no longer willing to take the finished product of a dis ease, the broken-dOwn individual and prescribe for him diet and rest which will give him the greatest Op- portunity to live in debilitated condi- ton. We want to prevent disease"
 Continuing the speaker declared that prophylactic medicine properly developed implied a study of the pa tient from birth, through the school and the home, and at his occupation. and paid a warm tribute to value of dentistry in educating the public to the value of preventive m nedicine.
 Nursing Develops Medicine.
 "In that development of nedicine,' Dean Winternitz asserted, i've must have people who help us, and those people are the nurses. Medicine is developing nursing. Nursing makes it possible for medicine to develop.
 Nursing has a, much wider field of activity than ever before. Today you have not only the nurse who spends her years in a training school and be- comes a superintendent of nurses or attends to the individual sick patient,