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■ij PROFESSIONAL STUDY.
AN ADDRESS
I'l.i iu:ui I. \t
THE OPENING OF THE FIFTEENTH ANNUAL SESSION
>i I III
Halifax Medical College,
N'"\ iMi'.i.i; I ill. 1 .ssd.
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B\ HUGH M' D. H ENR>-, l.L. R.
I'Uul l'.>-,. IK ,l|. Ml |>h \l I I KIM Kl LIS, K.
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GENTLEMEN,
Accordiri<5 to what, as I am assured, is an invariable
rule in Medical Colleges, an introductory address is
delivered at the beginning of each session, to the gen-
tlemen who are about entering upon the study of
those complex matters which go to make up the edu-
catioii of medical men. The strictness of this rule,
but, more especially and directly, a certain inexorable
determination on the part of my colleagues, must
explain my appearing before you in this present
capacity ; but no consideration whatever can enable
me to feel otherwise than diffident in approaching the
task which my associates have imposed upon me; for.
amongst other disqualifying conditions, I cannot help
realizing how difficult it is for a member of a pro-
fession different from that which you are choosing,
appropriately to make use of the opportunity afforded
him of saying a word in season to you. Yet I deem
it no small honour to have been chosen to address
you, and it gives me great pleasure to think that 1
may, perhaps, be able to say something which shall
be of use to you, or at least to some of you.
First, let me on behalf of the faculty, offer you a
warm and kindly welcome to the Halifax Medical
College. This indeed I can easily do. for my couec-
tion with this College has given me the warmest
interest in its progress, and the kindliest feelings
towards its students ; but when I realize that he who
7-1 <^
'hem a safe and plj,!. n I ""' ""'>' '» "^h
to sho^ them tLe wrV ■'"^''"" '" ^"-"^ e^'enr
-' -^ u„m..aU:f' i-™-;^" -Pe.e„c,„,
Because the wovir .,^
°^ - ".an, Cement ".:;:.:—? ' "'^'"' "-
and heart whiol, u eali, f " ,, <!»'"'"es of mind
«;^ -»-o„ ,„„ ,," :t.t :;:;''"'"'" ' '<-- ">«
Plo^e, with its elabom 1 ' ""^ '' *'"^"" '" «^-
f dens of scientific k o-Wed.r? ""' '^'^""'"K
domains, and its yet duTTl'^' "' S'''"' "mpiri,.
-hose hidden depl I „r '"'''""''^ ^^^'"''-e^
sounded. ^ ' "'" f'""""-'' of man has never
'Jo not thinl<, gentlemen thit fh
have to deal with are anelt^W I''" "'"'«'« ^O" "ill
"■at the requirement o Ztf' /"' "'•'""'"'
are fulfilled by a comL'Z , P^'^^^'onal school
-hich the teacher do e'"u a T, "' "'"'^'"''y "'
■^o much kno,vlodrre, H "'« ^'"dent takes in
la^-e extent the ca e i^ L S" ,e '"• '"»^' '" '-> ^
.'"here perhaps a nearer rl' l"" '»^'"«ions.
■'te between teacher .udtt^'P "^ P"P"age ex-
-'hjectsofstndyaremo'bst :"'•;'"" "''^^ «-
'■■•a-hesl7knrcx';:;'- ^ -■«-d t„
""'y a quick and retent vl „, ' '""''' "1""'"^
-»a'hematics,.od:::::::rf::*:;^"'-'^"^
3
vocally presented to the mind. But now you are
going beyond the soundings of certainty. You shall
have not merely by effort of memory to learn the
peculiarities of a language or by processes of induc-
tion to demonstrate a proposition, but you must in-
vestigate the fiicts themselves — some of them facts of
the most perplexing and occult character. You shall
have to judge for yourselves ho\v many of the infer-
ences which may be presented to you in books and
lectures are justified by these facts, and you will find
it necessary to decide for yourselves between many
inc(msistent theories. Thus it is that many who come
from school or college " bearing their blushing honors
thick upon them," fail at law or medicine, while
others whose scholastic achievements have been com-
paratively insignificant, immediately display the pos-
session and practice of certain habits of mind which
enable them rapidly to rise to a foremost place as
students and practitioners.
It is fitting therefore that noAv, at the beginning' of
your professional life, we should consider together
for a little some few of the many matters which might
appropriately be discussed on such an occasion.
First, let mc remind you that just now an
immense number, comparatively, are being admitted
to the so called learned ]»rofcssions. Modern facili-
ties for obtaining sufficient knowledge wherewith
to pass the prescribed preliminary examinations
have started scores on the way towards profes-
sional life, who, under other conditions, would
have followed other pursuits. Without stopping to
consider the effect winch the masses of our people arp
"f 'his Province, fa g av tit T'*""' '"'«-'
P'op-r place), letLVo ^.o„Uo y"'""" '» "^
Skater numbers enterinl l ^"^ "'^' "^ "'«■■<' are
-'" be keener compel l^- """"''''""' ^» 'here
-■i a higher stendad of e^tir''''^'"' "'-"•-•
•'"ccess. The general n .M ™ demanded for
™P-so„a. and no" eV n"^"'':' '""' 'ha. i„perio«,,
"-ne more inteIlige„TTnd 1 '""■^"•' ''"""■' has be-
°f "M, and the dafht colrj: "''"""'-^''"^ than
'east, professional succeini?.",; '" """' -^"^^^ at
"onal excellence, isln tr. t ^"'"^ "P™ P^of^^-
'^'- a few so-called "eXf^ "L' ''"^ «"- hy
«'>thout effort and wi.hou b," ™"''' ''•"">">'^ rich
Passed when a m-arf.V "'' '"'"'' 'he day ha.
K^ zj Practitioner rnnlr) i, •^ ^**
''"■efits of „ reputation without at "" '" '"'"' ""^'
port It. '"°"' attainments to sup.
I have already indiratoH ,
■"edicine ,„„ ,vill be cX ""' """ '' ^"-"ents of
-d habits of mind whic 't r '" ''.^'='™^ ^-""ie-s
■ng heretofore have po sib v f. ■, ?"'™'^ '"'^ "ain-
I' is an old and r. "■ "• ''<'™lop.
''in'i-d maxim is re: on" S th'" '' ""'^ "' "»>
unreasoning acquisi ion whicK . '""""" "^ hlind
Phshed by ,hous.lds of pe;„'tf •'''™ ■•'^™»'-
has a great deal to answer fomd 'T '" '""«• '^
as dangerous. KuowlelJ"^' ' "^ " '° "-^ ^''garded
" -s the knowledge whk'h Lt .'^r'T' S"^""^-""", but
-anus : not onl/recolleet ' e t T7' "'" ■""''^■-
^ 'act, but appreciates
5
the principle; not only, like a parrot, makes an
utterance, but experiences a living thought.
If we recall our notions as students so far, some of
us will find that we have been accustomed to asso-
ciate the idea of intellectual attainment with books,
and with what has been obtained from books. This
is well enough, but you must not fall into the error of
relying upon books, through mere memory, as the
means of equipping yourself for the duties of your
profession. Beware of mere book knowledge, and
of that condition which gave rise, no doubt, to
another familiar maxim, namely, that • an ounce of
common sense is worth a bushel of learning." Certain
it is that education has too often taken the direction
of mere scholastic attainment, and has tended too little
to the development of independent thought and a
critical habit. Consequently we are all more or less
familiar with instances of great achievement iu so-
called scholarship, abruptly followed by conspicuous
failure in other walks where something more has
been called for thar m capacity for the passive or
even active ingestioit of ready-made knowledge.
ISow, if there is any one factor more valuable than
another in the investigation and appreciation of truth,
that factor is the ability to observe accurately, and if
there is any one profession more than another in
which accurate observation is important, it is the pro-
fession of medicine.
It would be difficult to mention any calling in
which the habit of which I am now speaking is not
either essential or eminently useful, but in dealing
^vitjj the varied and eciuivocal subjects of medical
Dt'foie vol, f„, .. "'"icate the scnno .1
»'i"d. minie.er to this m , "'" ""■<'"« senses
"""d- S,„.gerv ,vi ■, "''^'■''' '''''^"Ity of the
'■o» . pathologj., „it|, i °' "'tol force a„d ^c-
P''cat,o„s of morbid .Ito '""""^-^ ™d com-
"f these subjects sug„sts eve . '""P'" '"'■'"ioning
•■""J -"e, ,vho m„3, ZZlTl '" P"'°»« like you
■""tters involved, how m, ^ ""'' >"" "«'e of Ih"
Profession by th; .Z™ t ," '° ""^ '^""^O m this
- of the senses of :^ f J; --' a»d interest
It IS not, however ph. V^^ ""'^ Possessed.
-' 'vith the band, o'.- "C^^ :,- '^itb the eye, to
'0 remember what has been ZT V^''"""^^^"
. «e must be a tendencv to ""■ '^^'^ "'• heard
*t.ons with antecedent o'r t™"^^^' --ting eon:
xpa.„ the one by the otke'^V'''^''^' """ '»
P'actice, amountino.toah„h> "''" '""'t be a
■■'--on, and if po°ss;i':o"j.'""''''"<v to loolc for
!;very phenomenon Pe bans frr "^ P''»eiple in
''"-ere involuntarilv fo aT ""''"""■'ookLar
'X' '' "- most imp„ „Vr' "'• ^"^-" ^or ev'er;
^on I speak of "oLev ion ■"':;. " '''"" ^ "oan
''penologists call "causal" ]^"^'"'' ^^hut the
'-^-''estelementandrtl^but::;!!-" -""
"PP^> the material
for a merely arbitary memory that would be sorely
taxed ill carrying a burden which an intelligent appre-
ciation of the real or even apparent relations of cause
and effect would make light and easy.
If I read in a book about any matter I should
remember, not because I have read, but because
I have understood ; not learned the fact alone,
but the principle with it. Now, if I learn this prin-
ciple otherwise I have learned all I could have got
from the book. Thus observation serves the same
ends at least as are served by books, yet somehow
there seems to be a greater and more common detici-
ency amongst students in this matter than there is in
mere book and memory work. Perhaps most of us
are rather late in beginning to practice it, and possi-
bly our preparatory study might be so modified in
school and even in college as
to bring about an
improvement in this particular.
I do not forget that some persons are by natur(>
more gifted in this respect than others, and thatvvitli
some observation seems almost an instinct, while
others appear to go through life with their eyes shut.
Fortunatelv. however, this faculty, unlike some
others, is capable of successful cultivation, so that no
one with ordinary intelligence need despair of success
if he but make an honest effort to achieve its best
results. One thing is certain. A man who lives
from day to day and year to year without reflectively
seeing what he may see is as one blind, and his
thoughts and acquirements will be circumscribed
accordingly. Genius in some department of mental
labor or devotion to some art or calling may perhaps
s
make men eminent without ,h
»"> speaking, but without! m „'r'"' "^ '^'"•"' '
"0 a very useful member of ''"; T" '^n hope to
. "'""Id not, however hie vn ^ '""" " '"''>^-
»■'«' rej^ard to books. ' I do I, '"■?'"'«'-tend me
"•"»ks- Such u thing would he ""^ '° *'P'"»g^-
f y- What r do wirhlTot '" """"'■'"^'""' '"»'"-
'hen in a wrong place or il to! ." 'T' ''°""'"^' P"«in^
'he means to knowledge 'f ^ l^ " '''"'''• ^"">"8^<
;^-^--greate:o:tJ::V''^-^"^^
fences, reflections and ex I .„ 1 ^«""' """fi"^'^ "nd
"••"gs, but they are not the ori! 7' "' •"'""«'"•' ^d
"'knowledge. They arenot ^'''"■'"''■"■^■"'"■■"'^^
f ea."s. They are -the exm-L '"'"'•''"^' ''"' 'he
'-'^ 'hemselves, pictures nr ?.!."' '"'^' "<" 'he
'■'»' "'gurd the rea ities tl ;„.","'''/""'• ^'•<' ""'" we
'"""f ■. hy the ligb( o, on T" 'T' ^ '^"^ "' ""'"^ <>'■
•I-" .V of the picl,..,,. „ :'^: ""'-f "".indepon.
"7:„r:rr-e-:;em;7r-
-''•.-^«^at'-rrt*r:''''r'-"^''"-«ve.v
'iuan,tcd uith technic ;; ""' ■™" ''«ome ac-
->d 'he outlook wul b' ZuTr'' "'" '"■ »'->"■'•
'""■•e ut homo, and then ,;,,;, ' "" ""' "">" feel
to think '^.rvonrselve?:,f ""' 5™ -""st be-in
''■'■•^'•-yourseiv:':, r/„r ••'■''""■'>"'• -"'
the wards of ,b, hos,>i,V T" '■<"""tio„s b,
"•'"""■ 'j» "ot .swan: ":;;;" *"^' <•'-»- -f th..
" prescribed text book, without fif-"" '"'' "'■''" '»
■""' ''"»■• each n,a,t,.r con , ■" "'""' 'whether
'-'-"-on. Itisnl'J^r^tf-'f'o.Vourcon;:
"•<""" along the pages and
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' ^vhich I
3 hope to
o'" mine.
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doubt nothing. The man who never doubts never
understands.
But, gentlemen, I question if you can practice what
I am now trying to preach without being thoroughly
interested in what you are going to practice it upon.
It is easy to give advice and it is easy to resolve to
act upon advice, but it is not easy for one to be
thoughtful and observing without being interested
in the subjects of observation. The senses, those
wonderful ministers to the braiu, must be presided
over by an interested pur[ a or they will but half do
their work The eye may contain the picture, the ear
vibrate to the sound, but the mind, if not alert with
interest, will neither see nor hear to much advantage.
You must then be devoted to your profession. It
must become, as it were, your second nature if you
are to master what is involved in it.
Not to be a surgeon, not to bo a physician, not to
have a degree from this or any college or university,
not to be permitted to practice medicine, must be your
object, but simply to be skilled and wise, and, let
me add, honest, in, ])erhaps, the noblest and most
humane art to which man can devote himself.
On the other hand, if, after giving the study of
medicine a fair trial — a careful, thoughtful trial — you
feel convinced that you will be miubie to get up a real
interest in it, I should say, give it up and try some-
thing else.
But I tiiink 1 could commend this habit of obser-
vation to you independently of merely professional or
economic considerations.
What is there more calculated to give pleasure ton
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the Jistw'^'^''^ ^merely ipsthpf^ ""'' "^^ ^
i„ ' ^^«"ess„ess of Sir Charles f ^^7 ' ^^'"^ "^ ^ieu-
'"ro f he crater nf v *^^^^stream wk i , '
""■•'h presents fo„s? '""^ P'»net called the
P-fe.,,!", •:'„;'; " ^-ten,, „, „„';•, ^^; '-m the
'-:-f::;i-x f=r ~;r■
- ne vcr\
•ontempJa-
^^c pheno-
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outset, of persons experienced in the theory and prac-
tice of the matters involved.
But this is not the only advantage afforded by the
school or college system, as distinguished from the
incidents and possibilities of solitary study. Beside*;
having courses and subjects of study indicated and
elaborated to you from day to day by teachers in the
various branches, you will, if you please, have the
benefit of constantly rehearsing your investigation
with your fellow students and of discussing with each
other, from time to time, the matters treated of in your
classes and lectures. This is a privilege which, I
think, is more to be valued than you may at first sup-
pose. During the years which you are to give to pre-
paring yourselves for admission to the practice of medi-
cine you will hear hundreds of lectures ; thousands
of theories will be expanded, and millions of facts
will be presented to you ; you will read many volumes,
and see many sights, all involved in the span of
your proper experience as students ; but I venture to
say that nothing will make a more lasting or avaiVible
imprint upon your minds than the matters which, as
students upon an equal footing, you may with inter-
est and spirit discuss from time to time with one
another. The quickening and stimulating effect of
such intercourse, such generous but close debate as
may take place amongst jjcrsons moved by a common
incentive and gathered together to follow a common
object cannot fail to be recognized and ai)preciated
as a very im{)ortant element in the favorable condi-
tions which a school of professional training affords.
Don't be afraid of giving your ideas to ench other,
P'
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^nd do Tint c,
"""not als beTt """ ''^^''-^e v„„ ,,, ,
''«• and must ''":.''"'■ ^' «" SoodT f""' '''"'
^O" have „,- , . '^''^'«"-''
»<" ^ee that ,ve It aJM ""^ ""^"'""g «» far if
position of tl. . ' '^afners to»e,l,r ' ^"^ <'°
■"»» feeling ^ ' ''■'"" "'at of th» .. 1 ^' "o' an
P'ace U3 aif ■" * »""non object TT ^ ^-n-
'-'•"' ^^^^^f:z7r' -' -^- ftef tb :"•""<'
'"^^ yo» that 30 fl" '"1 '" """' a»d 1 re L; """^
"■•e concerned a ' ''" P^fessors of 2 ""^ "'-
f°«'>, whether r V '"■^' ^'^o" which v^ " ^'""■
"gation or ■„!» "'"' ">« '"orm of ;„! ^ ' ""^ P"'
a«ie learn;. "''■"'"ed. [nte/lt^ "'■>'• "■'"be
7g«sted, eannot'fl/f ^":''«'"s. ^-ch as /','""'
*ose who are c„ll i '" ^'"nulafe anrf '""'<'
;'-•■• ^"idesanrSr,;";"" '" "-''aVe heTt"™^^
'"■«» -ork frl'^'.""-'""" have era"""^ ''"«^'"
•ners you
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work, and you may find by comparison wherein you
are strong and wherein you are weak. You will be
able to see and to realize, not only in your own case
but in that of your fellows, the results for good and ill
of various habits and tendencies. True, you may see
examples which you had better not follow, but you
will certainly, on the other hand, be encouraged by
models of industry and stimulated by the incentive of
friendly emulation. Moreover,you will obtain a notion
of the scope and possibilities of your profession
which no experience outside of such an institution
could give you.
Seeing that these are some only of the advantages
supplied by a Medical College, and that the collegiate
system is at least equally appropriate to the subject
of law, and that nevertheless few English law
students have the benefit of such a system, you will
not be surprised at being congratulated upon the dif-
ference which exists between the two professions in
this respect.
But, gentleman, there is something else which I am
induced to mention before leaving this matter of
College training.
Nova Scotia is not a very large country and we
cannot perhaps expect under present conditions to
have an uncommonly large or numerously attended
professional school of any kind in Halifax. Now
what I wish to say is this : that whatever advantages
small institutions and large institutions, as such, may
possess over each other respectively, (and there is
urged m favor of each) one thing is dear.
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namely: that a small cl««« • ^
f'e student, not L e^ i,?Tr P'''^^''"-
dangerous place. '"="'*'"''> " bad place, but «
'-e'y little effort to be there S t "'"' ™'""-''-
'» ai'vays a nnsfortune when ;, I' "" "^P^'i^'ce
I"'»fe^xion, and to itrre^lll ^'' "'"'■'"' '» W''
'--. «"' he Wilt ": r'.Y "/ ""' ""-^ ""-
acquirements with all t|,.„ /f '* ''« compare his
'« know., with thet e!t „ ;, I "1 '"'"''"' '^ ^^a.
'^"ovv, i„,,,,„j „, ^; !^»' '^^^ of what he does not
'''"""■»' of his fellows The ''" '"■"^^"' •■"■'' a
'or us to learn and to keen al v.!"°" ""^"^""""'^ 'esson
'^ 'hat as yet we know but e.'r:", """"'' '" ""'^ ''«''»1'-
-""i'fetanding any,,' sib' "'' ■"'''^«''' '">''">»',
"l^ove our fellows LT ti T'^''"'"''y "'«'-"■
^<"-y i?,'noranf, and should ^ Z'"^: ""^ "'-^ "' '«'«'
'"'d Very n,„desf -^ n, ^'"^"'^ '"^ «■■> diligent
" « custou,a V and " '^'■"'■'"" 'sno.atsefre '•
'"-,• something t • "ST"' ""."-—-ons
"•■"ding Hud rela'-ing o l,^,,"' "°* """ P'aj. ,- the
'o he preserved between thl T"'^-' • "'" '">'ance
":" '-- I oncou tc * , ^71' '""^ i'» tabernacle.
"■'^'«- of „,y presentsit tio . ' ™"""^"'« ^^^H"
!'.'-™""a.tuensf„ra„„,,;.:^^';'"-'"^^^
"n<-, to yenture to siv T ' ""'''«''"-ds medi.
"■"f - ■■"voiyr, iM ;;rit;":;' t '•"■""•-»
'"■ "'« "'hid ; How dure I'.dv, '„ "^ "'"'«'■ "«' hod>
advise upon this point! '
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But, gentlemen, even a lawyer may say one or two
things in this connection which some of you will do
well to remember and act upon ; and do not despise
the advice because it is gratis. That is the only
unique thing about it. For the rest, it is obvious and
old.
In every college there are students who work very
hard. There are also some who do not work very hard.
If there are any of the latter class here they need not
listen to what 1 am about to say. Now these hard work-
ing students must be cautioned against the possible
results of too much brain worry, for both in arts md in
professional study I have seen studiousness over done
and have known evil to follow. We are nearly all
familiar with some case of a probably poorly ground-
ed academic, month after month and year after year,
burning the midnight oil, and, with bandaged head
and weary eye, driving his jaded faculties by sheer
force of will, into the formalities of logic, th(^
j)rocesses of mathematics or the classic beauties of
ancient authors. We know too, that many students
of law and medicine in such schools as this, for long
periods, take too little respite from their labors, either
for relaxation or positive rest, and that the result has
been often apparent and sometimes deplorable.
Listen to what an old student, Professor Blackie, of
Edinburgh, says : " It is a well known fact that tiie
care of their health, or. what is the same thing, the
rational treatment of their own ti( sh and blood, is
the very last thing that students seriously think of.
and the more eager the student the more apt is he
to sin in this respect and to drive himself like an
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iNovv ^pnH. '""^^^^ ^« stands."
a«d i„div,d..al tendendes . ' '"','"' '^'""•='' «''^"'*
"e.-, ,„ keep you, recZH T '^'''"^ <=««. bow-
"-« "- -^ „,e„. ,i, ,.„ :;"' - •"•- e Hen^e^ber
of a profound truth anrf tr. « 'he utterance
art, „o discovery in ,0 if'' "" "^.^o-P'-l'ment in
•oi- lost iK^lth. "'*'""■'■ ''f" <-•«" ever compensate
Gentlemen, let me cai.rir.^
'''■ofes»>o„s and bra d e of ^'7 ''^"'""'' P'-''-''^'^'^-
individuals, are ant ten, f . P"^"*^^^''™^. "S well as
Out bigoted pre fdg r:;;"-'^^-'--'olerance;
".-oMsco„site;tn::.:/:r™:rt::tr
--^:r:d::-r-^,r«^^^
^s u callino it i,,,,, J '"^ ^^'^ '^^^ 1 hough old
"foisrapidlyU:^: !.;:--'--•.''-. ■'3ne,v
"-V perva,les the w^e ,„t , „Ar""f ' '"'"'
'"edical study, and >ve mus , • f"''-""' "^
demonstrates, >vhetl,e,- ^ '"™-""^e what science
I'-onceived notions I. Z '" '""'"'"''" -•"' "ur
»i"!w::™t:i-:::-:r--ve„.eep„p
--•-yto.ece1vel„o^:;i-~rrarf
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1
Discard no suggestion as too novel. Ignore no enquiry
however minute and apparently unpractical, which
may throw light upon the nature of disease. Do
notdespise as new-fan:;lod or superfine any appliance
which may make your discrimination as to m >rbid
conditions more exact. Always separate observation
and reason from tradition. Trust the one and distrust
the other.
Before I close I wish to say a word of encourage-
ment to you. I have told you and no doubt you have
seen for yourselves, that the professions are being
crowded now-a-day.s. Some of you may wonder how
you are going to get into a practice, and how you are
going to make a living after you have served your
terms as students. I cannot take time now to
discuss this. But 1 have time to tell you that so
far as I have been able to observe, success depends
upon personal merit, and that if a professional man
has the affairs of his fdlows entrusted to liim, he is
chosen, not from motives of friendship or charity,
but because his clients or patients require, or think
they require, his services. Human selfishness is
perhaps the surest guarantee for human success If
you can show qualities which your fellows need to
make use of these qualities will command their
market value, and, unless you are kept back by some
unfortunate idiosyncrasy, you will have a place in the
great race of life. If you shall be well trained and
capable professional men you will not fail. The
world will always want, and will always recognize
such men. I have no faith in the " village Hampdens
and mute inglorious Miltons " who are supposed to
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s'eep in country churchvards Tf,
selves worthy yo„ „ili „Tf\^°'"""'""'^^y'""-
"'g>orio„s„essorobs",rl,y '"""^"^^ '''^" '»
'P°^'^^"k!Z Z'o ZJ 7T" ' ""^ ""' 3--'
"- "*'-.s.s .I.U I have "been 'Z' '" 'l" *""»"•
■wearing ,0 sermonize Buril;^ ^"" "'" "'^ "^
'■■espass upon tlie provin e o 'l r:""'' "?'^"*"»' ">
I see about me-ih,,t intell, , '"'='■<'»<' S«'tl"«en
(''"'.■b Lealel. are u ^ t ''"""""-''.nent and
«he purpose of sueeoedi," i, i"" '"'""'' "en for
i-onu.,hi„g more ; .e fu C^T"" "'" '^''-■«
Physieal strength, and "o k '■"*"'' ''""^'- ">an
•"•""Phsof.he'mnd Th", ^T'''"^ 'I'"" "'«
'^o -' fear, I am .^hJ^^'T "", '^ ''"""'^^■
"» -bout saying the last", ?! "h";;;'! '"™""''' ^
fe™s„ffaitr:,i:;;:::;';^;..- ^"^ '"^'^ -inie
'e.« with eaeh other vlieT"" "'^ ""^ '"^""^i^-
•-'h-oh and state ,„;; f, ^^^ ! -ay ,v.,„g,, ,„,
goodness is eternal. Tr th f ' ""'' ''"^^ "'''''y
"ever pass away. With™ Vr""'' "»"'"'ess, shall
be a failure "' ""''<= >°"'- Hfe work must