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this year ; an individual member could then 

 attend particular sessions, or all sessions, 

 according as his interest and activities are 

 specialized, or more general. A glance at 

 this year's program shows the broad scope 

 of the combined interests of the members 

 of this association ; and this scope is sure 

 to become still broader as internal medi- 

 cine grows and specialization in its vari- 

 ous subdivisions increases. Thus, before 

 long, the problems of "social medicine" 

 are likely to engage us more than they do 

 now. And I should like, in closing, to re- 

 fer for a moment to this topic. Society at 

 present tries, for its own welfare, to edu- 

 cate all citizens of the state. It may soon 

 decide to try also to maintain the health 

 and efficiency of all. Should society so re- 

 solve, a great extension of the municipal, 

 state and federal medical services would 

 become necessary to prevent disease ; and 

 the present method of treating patients at 

 their homes would, in all probability, be 

 largely replaced by hospital treatment. 

 And if health should come to mean more 

 than mere existence without outspoken 

 physical disease — to include an abundant 

 vitality, the capacity for joyous activity 

 and for successful adaptation to the en- 

 vironment — then society, to maintain the 

 health of its members, would have to see to 

 it that the children born inherit bodies 

 capable of normal responses to environ- 

 mental stimuli, and further, that the vari- 

 ous environmental stimuli to which indi- 

 viduals are exposed are beneficial to them 

 and not too injurious. Such an ideal cam- 

 paign for health seems at present a mere 

 dream. But some dreams are prophetic 

 forerunners of reality, and if we are to 

 judge of the future by certain signs in the 

 present, say by the institution of the 

 Erankenkasse in Germany and by the 

 movement toward a national medical serv- 

 ice as advocated by Lloyd George in Eng- 



land, it may not be long before we shall, in 

 this country, too, be taking some important 

 steps forward in "social medicine." And 

 when the time for this is at hand, we can 

 be sure that this Association of American 

 Physicians will be ready to throw its influ- 

 ence in the direction most helpful to society 

 as a whole. 



Lewellys F. Barker 

 Baltimoke, Md. 



THE MEANING OF GSADUATE STUDY ^ 

 It was a pleasure to me to accept the invi- 

 tation tendered through your vice-president to 

 appear before you to-night to speak on " The 

 Meaning of Graduate Study." That it is im- 

 portant to every member of this club to have 

 an adequate conception of this matter is obvi- 

 ous, and I shall not take time to emphasize 

 this fact. I should like to say, however, by 

 way of preliminary, that it is also vital to the 

 university and to the state that both you and 

 all the people of the state should be clear and 

 accurate in your judgment as to the true na- 

 ture and character of graduate work. On this 

 depends, to a large extent, the success of the 

 university and the measure of service which it 

 may render to its constituency. I hope that 

 the way in which your graduate study is thus 

 vitally related to the university and to the 

 community at large will appear with appropri- 

 ate emphasis before I have done speaking. 



We shall best avoid mutual misunderstand- 

 ing if I state at the outset the answer which I 

 have in mind to the question, " What is gradu- 

 ate study ? " 



In the first place it is not a further exten- 

 sion of undergraduate study. It is something 

 different, not merely in degree, but rather in 

 kind. The change from undergraduate to 

 graduate work should be as marked as that 

 from the high school to the university. On 

 passing from the lower to the higher the stu- 

 dent goes into a new atmosphere. He finds 

 what is to him a novel attitude and point of 



'■ Address to the Graduate Club of Indiana Uni- 

 versity, December 10, 1912. 



