724 KANSAS CJT^ EVIEW OF SCIENCE. 



KANSAS CITY HOSPITAL COLLEGE. 



The First Annual Commencement exercises of the Kansas City Hospital Col- 

 lege were held March 15th in the Unitarian Church. The house was well filled 

 and great interest was manifested in the proceedings. After the overture "Silver 

 Bells " by the orchestra, Dr. D. E. Dickerson, the dean of the faculty, took the 

 chair. Dr. Bowker then prayed for the blessing of God upon all liberal ideas 

 and institutions. After the prayer the orchestra played the march from " Stra- 

 della." 



The dean presented the diplomas to the graduating class and congratulated 

 them upon their success in passing the severe examination to which they had been 

 subjected. There were eighteen matriculants and seven graduates. The names 

 and residences of the latter are as follows : 



Charles F. Kuechler, Edwin G. Granville, WilHam H. Kimberlin, James 

 Carpenter, Kansas City; James Gilbert, Jackson County; Joseph H. Robinson, 

 Tennessee; Rawson Arnold, Oakland, Cal. 



Mr. Edwin G. Granville then delivered the valedictory address, which was 

 in substance as given below. 



Ladies and Gentlemen. — In universities and colleges, says Lord Bacon, 

 '' Men's studies are almost confined to certain authors from which if any dissent. 

 eth, it is enough to make him be thought a person turbulent." 



That this is true no one can successfully deny. Weak and bigoted men al- 

 ways gratify their vanity in opposing the introduction of additions to our knowl- 

 edge, which not being taught in the schools in which they were educated, are 

 consequently above their comprehension. The concurrent' denunciations of 

 medical theories and practices by many of the enlightened professors and practi- 

 tioners of medicine in modern times, and the innumerable failures of the practice, 

 proves that medicine as it has been generally taught, understood and practiced, is 

 not what it should be — is not an adequate supply to the demand of the age. 



The ancients endeavored to elevate physic to the dignity of a science, but 

 failed. The moderns, with more success, have endeavored to reduce it to the 

 level of a trade. Science has heaped wealth in the lap of commerce ; to the heal- 

 ing art, she has been a meagre patron. The commercial man cordially receives 

 her magnificent contributions; the medical devotee looks with jealous eye upon 

 her beneficent discoveries. 



Their so-called regular State and County societies are not combinations to 

 advance medical knowledge, for no one who happens to have mastered methods 

 of practice unknown to these associations, essentially different from their meth- 

 ods, could bring any discovery or demonstration before them without being in- 

 sulted or rejected without a hearing. 



The new must e'er supplant the old, 

 While time's increasing current flows. 



