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the performance of any operative procedure ridiculous 

 under these circumstances. 



This fund is, we believe, the largest yet given in any part 

 of the world for the solution of a single problem in med- 

 icine, and it is perfectly certain that this lady, of a family 

 whose benefactions to this community were already large, 

 knew what such a gift involved and felt justified in her 

 action by the misery and suffering that she has attempted 

 to conquer. 



In laying out the work, too, some of it has been and 

 some will have to be --intrusted to non-graduates in medi- 

 cine, but at the same time to gentlemen competent to carry 

 out the special line of research put before them. 



CLOSING 



Much has been said by the petitioners of the existence 

 of evidence that they could not obtain or at least bring 

 before this committee --because it was in the hands of 

 students who were afraid of their instructors. Gentlemen 

 of the committee, here is a class-list of the students of the 

 second year at the Harvard Medical School. It is at your 

 service ; and we say to you that if you wish to see for your- 

 selves whether any such evidence as the petitioners declare 

 does actually exist, send privately for any or all of these 

 gentlemen and hear what they have to say. We shall be 

 content to rest upon their judgment. 



And now, gentlemen, we leave the decision of this mat- 

 ter in your hands. 



These presidents of great educational institutions ; these 

 representatives of the clergy, teachers of various branches 

 of biological science, surgeons and practitioners of difli-r- 

 cnt beliefs; these mental, moral degenerates; these human 

 or humane defectives whatever the epithet actually used 

 was rest their case in your hands. 



