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EDUCATION. 



FOURTEENTH ANNUAL GRADUATION EXERCISES OF THE KAN- 

 SAS CITY MEDICAL COLLEGE. 



The fourteenth annual Commencement of the Kansas City Medical College 

 was held March 7th in the auditorium of the Walnut Street M. E. Church. The 

 church was filled with friends of the college and the class, and others interested 

 in the proceedings. 



The music was furnished by the Opera House orchestra, and was of an excel-, 

 lent character. 



After, an overture from "Zampa" the evening's exercises were opened with 

 prayer by Rev. C. C. Woods. The orchestra discoursed several selections from 

 " Ernani," and Rev. C. L Thompson was called upon to deliver the address of 

 the evening. Dr. E. W. Schaufifier, president of the faculty, presided over the 

 commencement exercises. The members of the faculty occupied seats on the 

 rostrum. 



NATURAL SCIENCE AND PSYCHOLOGY. 



In his address to the students of the College and the members of the grad- 

 uating class, Rev. C. L. Thompson spoke as follows : 



A minister is to speak to you, young gentlemen, on the threshold of the 

 medical profession. At first thought it might seem inappropriate. I might be 

 warned off this ground by the old saw: '■'■ Ne sutor ultra crepidamy But in 

 these days the shoemaker's last stands for more than one thing. The realm of 

 learning has so widened, the circles of learning, like those of the skies, so cut 

 each other, that each is kin to all. The professions are articulated and each be- 

 longs to all. It is especially so between us. You are doctors, I am a minister. 

 We are each at a work upon the same man. Therefore I have a right to speak 

 to you — you have a right to speak to me. We are building on the same house, 

 a house not made with hands. If we build wisely, we will build together, each 

 in loyalty to the one plan of the architect. 



When a pseudo doctor works away at the symptoms or special form of disease 

 without taking account of the whole man, you call him a quack. You disfellow- 

 ship him. Let us beware that you and I be not quacks of a higher sort, but 

 quacks all the same ; you doctoring the man's digestion and respiration and cir- 

 culation, and ignoring his mental and moral condition, and I, doctoring his ■ 

 conscience, while I ignore his liver. A full science takes in the whole man. 



So, young gentlemen, in proportion as we are scientific, we are brethren. 



