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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXX. No. 772 



We teach and teach 



Until like drumming pedagogues we lose 



The thought that what we teach has higher ends 



Than being taught and learned. 



It ought to be impossible, even in satire, to 

 say "Those who can, do; those who can't, 

 teach. ' ' 



The strong teacher must ever have the 

 best of the priest about him in the fervor 

 of his faith in the healing power of truth. 

 Let our teaching be sane, fearless and en- 

 thusiastic, and let us not, even in moments 

 of despondency, forget the dignity, the op- 

 portunity, the power of our calling. The 

 teacher is the foremost servant of society 

 and the state, for he is moulding their fu- 

 ture leaders. Sound learning, wisdom and 

 morality are the foundation of all order 

 and progress, and these it is the aim of 

 the college to foster. If we can send into 

 the world a yet larger number of strong 

 young men — men clean in body, clean in 

 mind and large of soul, men as capable of 

 moral as of mental leadership, men with 

 large thoughts beyond selfishness, ideas of 

 leisure beyond idleness, men quick to see 

 the difference between humor and coarse- 

 ness in a jest— if we can ever and in in- 

 creasing numbers send out young men of 

 this sort, we need never fear the question 

 — "Can a young man afford the four best 

 years of his life to go to college ? ' ' 



DR. WILLIAM WiaHTMAN 

 In Science of June 4 last there appeared the 

 following brief item : 



" Dr. William Wightman, of the Public 

 Health and Marine Hospital Service, died at 

 Guayaquil, Ecuador, on May lY, from yellow 

 fever." 



As a rule, only the claim of conspicuous 

 achievement can arrest any wide attention at 

 the passing of a unit of the race; yet the cir- 

 cumstances of the life and death of William 

 Wightman merit an attention wider than the 

 circle of his acquaintances, and may offer 



some inspiration for all who labor for the 

 betterment of the race. 



It is a subject of common, if rather vague, 

 remark that America is beginning to exert a 

 wider influence on the weKare of other peo- 

 ples of the world, especially on that of our 

 less favored sister nations of the same con- 

 tinent. This influence is constantly wielded 

 through diplomatic efforts, through the labors 

 of educational or religious bodies, through 

 the movements of commercial expansion, but 

 in no way more certainly and more beneficially 

 than through the striking achievements and 

 the example of our medical profession. The 

 sanitary measures employed at Panama and 

 extended to points of the west coast of South 

 America for the better protection of the Canal 

 Zone, have been of such evident advantage as 

 to win a hearty recognition and an effort of 

 cooperation from the South American coun- 

 tries. The indirect results in these countries 

 will form a significant chapter in history, even 

 though the names should be forgotten of 

 those who labored at the beginning. Never- 

 theless, the foundation of an achievement of 

 which the nation will be justly proud is laid 

 by those who do the pioneer work under cir- 

 cumstances which demand not only a high 

 degree of determination, but rare patience, 

 tact and honor, or even an unassuming hero- 

 ism. Of such pioneers was William Wight- 

 man, an American by adoption, by affection 

 and by devoted service. 



In the early part of 1906, as a young surgeon 

 in the Public Health and Marine Hospital 

 Service, who had served efficiently on our 

 western coast. Dr. William Wightman was de- 

 tailed to Callao, Peru, to act as quarantine 

 agent attached to the American Consulate. 

 For two years he served his country at this 

 port, manifesting not only professional ability, 

 but inflexible devotion to his duties, and un- 

 failing courtesy and tact. It is not too much 

 to say that he won the respect, and even the 

 affectionate esteem, of most of those whose 

 private interests suffered from the rigid meas- 

 ures of disinfection. Certainly he held a high 

 place in the affection of the American and 

 English residents and visitors of that region, 



