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your patient has a heart and a conscience, but you need them yourself. If you 

 would be an expert surgeon your professors have told you you must do nothing 

 to unsteady your hand. Only so can you move successfully around those cen- 

 tres of life, where a manual tremor might be fatal to your work. My old friend. 

 Dr. Mussey, of Cincinnati, when he had a very delicate surgical operation to 

 perform, would go to bed for a day, that with a rested system and unjaded brain 

 and a level hand he might come to his perilous task. Young gentlemen, I com- 

 mend to you that restfulness of spirit, that best balance of all your powers vvhich 

 comes from the silence and calmness of leaning on God. This will help you to 

 do your work to the best. You will interpenetrate the physical with the spirit- 

 ual. You will carry a serene, a cheerful countenance that is sometimes bet- 

 ter than medicine. An element of helpful sympathy, undulled and unprofession- 

 al, will accompany and glorify your ministry to the body; your heart will be kept 

 true to the highest sentiments of your calling, and your faith in God will sustain 

 you under the failures with which human mortality steadily confronts you; but if 

 you work on high levels, it cannot cheat you of your reward. That reward will 

 not always be to save life. It will be enough if, joining hands with the minister, 

 you teach a man how to die ; teach him how along the altar stairs of a breaking 

 body, to climb through, this world's darkness up to God. 



After music President Schauffler conferred the degree of Doctor of medicine 

 on the members of the graduating class, giving each his diploma and administer- 

 ing the usual Hippocratic oath. 



The names and addresses of the members of the graduating class are as fol- 

 lows: 



Graduates in medicine — Henry P. Ball, Shawnee, Kas.; Samuel R. Coates, 

 Kansas City; Charles M. Chambliss, Bozeman, M. T.; Joseph S. Fisher, Middle- 

 port, O.; Charles E Griffith, Rose Hill, Mo.; Alexander H. Ironsides, Kansas 

 City; Edwin T. Phillips, Manhattan, Kas.; Henry E. Pitcher, Shawnee Mound, 

 Mo.; James R. Ladd, Cambridge, Mo.; Richard P. Walker, Platte City, Mo.; 

 John B. Wann, Harrisonville, Mo.; William H. Young, Spring Dale, Ark. 



Graduates in dentistry — David C. Lane, and Joseph P. Root, Jr., Wyan- 

 dott, Kas. 



President Schauffler then said that while this was the fourteenth annual anni- 

 versary of the Commencement of the Kansas City Medical College, it was at the 

 same time the first annual Commencement of the Kansas City Dental College, or 

 dental department of the Medical College. Unfortunately this fact has not been 

 mentioned in the programme. The degrees and diplomas were conferred on the 

 members of the graduates in dental surgery, and Dr. T. B. Lester arose to de- 

 liver the address to the class. 



DR. Lester's address. 



Dr. Lester said that thirteen years ago it devolved upon him to speak the 



