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tend most cordial greeting. It is our hope 

 that he may be one with us in all the aims 

 and interests which we have in common, 

 and that no seeming indifference on our 

 part, or aloofness on his, may hinder him 

 from taking the place to which he is en- 

 titled and obtaining every advantage and 

 benefit which comes to those who are en- 

 gaged in a common pursuit if so be they 

 will ally themselves with their fellow-work- 

 ers and thus secure their share of the in- 

 spiration to be derived by those who are 

 bound together by a common tie and are 

 striving to reach the same goal. To this 

 Community of interests I shall later on al- 

 lude, because I am convinced by long ex- 

 perience that no little evil and loss comes 

 to some from lack of proper apprehension 

 of this matter, and while it may be that 

 those who are continuing and not entering 

 upon their studies here, and whose student 

 habits are in some measure established, will 

 be little influenced by anything said, I am 

 encouraged to hope that some of those who 

 find themselves in new surroundings may 

 be ready to receive some new truth, or view 

 some old one in a new light, so that it may 

 impress itself upon the mind and infiuence 

 in some degree their conduct. And this, 

 as already intimated, is one of the advan- 

 tages which such occasions as the present 

 possess — that there are certain days in life 

 and periods in the history of every indi- 

 vidual when even the little things make 

 their mark and find a lodgment in the 

 memory. Which fact affords, as we have 

 seen, some reason, or at least excuse, for 

 such observances as this, which however 

 perfunctory they may seem to some are yet 

 by no means devoid of interest to others 

 and may be made in some degree profitable 

 to those who are disposed to view them 

 aright. 



This occasion has for me no ordinary 

 interest. I stand to-day where on a sim- 



ilar occasion and for a like purpose I stood 

 thirty-two years ago, and again twelve 

 years ago, and as the duty which has for 

 this third time been delegated to me is 

 assigned in rotation to the members of our 

 faculty it is in the highest degree improb- 

 able that I shall ever discharge it again. 

 For many years as student and instructor, 

 and for twenty-five years just closing as 

 registrar, I have been connected with this 

 school, and I can not look about me with- 

 out recalling the faces of those under whose 

 instruction I sat, whom personally I have 

 known, or with whom as teacher I have 

 been associated, many of them long gone, 

 who from this place have addressed succes- 

 sive classes occupying the seats which you 

 are filling to-day. Two of these were 

 founders of the school— the brilliant sur- 

 geon March, cind the versatile and accom- 

 plished anatomist Armsby, whose faces look 

 down upon us from the canvases before 

 you, and among those who at a later period 

 became connected with the school were 

 Dean and Harris in medical jurisprudence, 

 and the dignified Scotchman of the old 

 school, McNaughton, and the elder Vander 

 Poel in the department of practise; Quaek- 

 enbush and Seymour in obstetrics ; Pomfret 

 and Webster in physiology; Haskins in 

 anatomy; Lansing in materia medica, and 

 Porter, J. S. Mosher and Perkins in chem- 

 istry. Coming into the faculty later, and 

 after its reorganization in 1876, were Swin- 

 burne in surgery. Gray and E. R. Hun in 

 neurology, and F. Townsend in physiology. 

 Dr. Thomas Hun had withdrawn from ac- 

 tive participation in college affairs before 

 my time, though he served as emeritus pro- 

 fessor and dean of the faculty from 1876 

 until his death twenty years later, and Dr. 

 Howard Townsend had just passed off the 

 scene when I came on it as a student. 

 These men and many others, for I have 

 named only those whom personally I have 



