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Only new beauties to unfold, 



And brighter glories to disclose ; 

 For every crumbling altar stone 



That falls upon the way of time, 

 Eternal wisdom has o'erthrown, 



To build a temple more sublime. 



The cry for more liberality in medical education has continued so long that 

 it has become one of the demands of the age. And to Kansas City belongs the 

 honor of establishing the first college of medicine as an adequate supply to imper- 

 ative demand — one in which all approved systems are united, and in which all 

 remedial agents are weighed in the scales of utility, and admitted or rejected ac- 

 cording to their merits. 



Fellow graduates, we are now by the authority of the State of Missouri and 

 the judgment of this faculty Doctors in medicine. It now becomes us, through 

 application and fidelity to our profession, to secure the recognition and patronage 

 of the public, to whom we pledge our most earnest and conscientious efforts. 

 Let us so live and work that when our service here is done, the sentence shall fol- 

 low: "Well done, good and faithful servant." 



At the conclusion of the valedictory, the dean introduced the Rev. John E. 

 Roberts, who spoke upon 



SENTIMENT AND SCIENCE. 



Ladies and Gentlemen. — Sentiment is thought plus feeling; science is 

 unimpassioned thought; sentiment is the child of the brain and the heart; science 

 is the offspring of the brain ; sentiment is ardent, sanguine, buoyant; science is 

 frigid, formal, sedate; sentiment is elastic, roseate and joyous; science is rigid, 

 colorless and solemn; sentiment is eager, impetuous and daring; science is me- 

 thodical, slow and cautious; sentiment delights in results; science delights in proc- 

 esses; sentiment gathers flowers; science collects bulbs and roots; sentiment 

 thinks science too slow; science thinks sentiment too fast; sentiment sometimes 

 goes wrong ; science — ditto. 



Sentiment and science sometimes call each other names — then both have- 

 got wrong. I want to show you that there is not only room for both sentiment 

 and science in the wide field that lies before us as students, but that the work of 

 each will be imperfect and incomplete without the aid of the other. 



The scientific method is not new. It dates, in fact, from before the begin- 

 ning of the Christian era, but the greal thinker who first defined it thought vastly 

 in advance of his age. He was, therefore, destined to be misunderstood and un- 

 appreciated for centuries. There came one at last whose intellectual endow- 

 ments added him to the list of which Aristotle was the last, and now for two cen- 

 turies and a half the inductive method has been the process by which facts have 

 been treated and scientific conclusions reached. 



Following this method the workers of the world— each in his own chosen 



