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higher, nobler, or more worthy. No structure can be consecrated to a higher purpose.

"If nothing is found in this box to show that the College has done something towards elevating and improving medical education, we had better return this corner-stone to its native element-there to rest and remain until called out for a better and nobler purpose. This dedication has more than a local value; for when time has dimmed the recollection of the first charter member of this College, the Hon. B. F. Wade, here will be found a history of his efforts for human freedom and equal rights of man. When the living have forgotten the generosity of Cleveland's citizens, here will be found records to renew and revive such dimmed remembrances. When none remain to love the memory of Drs. John Wheeler, Charles D. Williams and Storm Rosa for their professional skill and kindness to the sick, here too will be found their history. A College incorporated by those men is of noble birth, chartered by those men whom this city and the State of Ohio love to honor and remember. These incorporators were men of broad and liberal views, progressive and far-seeing, whose reputation and endearment extend far beyond the limit of their homes. They were bold and fearless of public opinion when a principle was at issue. To establish this College implied the future development of a principle that would consist in elevating medicine from an art to a science, to voice the doctrines and teachings of Hahnemann. The incorporators saw that justice demanded that woman should receive her equal rights with man in medical education. Such was the honorable beginning of this College nearly half a century ago. Cleveland then had two homeopathic physicians, now it has over two hundred!" Dr.

Beckwith then gave a history of the College up to the present time and said: "I leave the remainder of the College history to others now her teachers. With my brothers in the medical profession who are not with us, I have no controversy, no words-nothing but silent sorrow. They all are my friends. I hope the cause of their absence will be forgiven and forgotten. For in unity there is strength; in harmony there is love, contentment and happiness."

Dr. T. P. Wilson read a humorous poem and Dr. Lewis Barnes made brief remarks which were enthusiastically received. He denounced the accusation of the allopaths that homeopathists get all their knowledge from allopathic investigation, and said if physicians of the latter school read the works of the former more extensively they would have better success in treating disease. Dr. Leavitt pronounced the benediction and the exercises were closed.

October 16th, 1891, the College Faculty gave a banquet at the Hollenden in honor of the class. About 120 discussed the menu, after which Dr. Stanton L. Hall, as toastmaster, introduced as speaker of the evening Dr. D. H. Beckwith. Speaking of the Hospital and the College he said: "Thirteen years ago there stood a small building one and one-half stories high which served as a Hospital. It was poorly ventilated, poorly equipped, and with no accommodations suited to the needs of the times. The generous public determined that a better building should be put up, with all modern improvements in sanitation, beautiful in architecture, to be a home for the sick-whether they be rich or poor. The present magnificent building is what they gave us, and there have been many within its walls who live to

day to bless the givers to that benevolent institution.

"In 1850 the second College of our school in the world was established in this city. We never possessed a building erected especially for College work. We now propose to have one, and to this end the lot next the Huron Street Hospital has been purchased. Twentyseven thousand eight hundred dollars have been subscribed and the building committee, after careful examination of other College buildings, are hard at work on one which will not have its superior anywhere in the country. A noteworthy feature is that a new charity is to be introduced. One entire floor will be devoted to the Dental College, and free clinical work will be carried on for the benefit of those who are unable to pay. The building itself will be four stories. high, built of brick and stone, and its architecture will be made to harmonize with that of the Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital. It will accommodate about two hundred students and we trust that in the fall of 1892 we shall meet that number there.

"Our motto is: A high standard of education at an expense which will bring it within the means of all who are worthy. I have just received a telegram. which says 'Put me down for $100 for the love of my old home. H. H. Brockaway, M. D., Ashland House, N. Y.'"

Rev. Benjamin T. Noakes, D. D., responded to the second toast: "YouthHow Bright It Gleams." He said: "The medical profession is one eminently worthy of selection in the time of youth, for it is a profession in which youth. must always continue, at least all that is valuable in youth. A physician grows old most gradually and most gracefully, and at the last, like the deacon's wonderful one hoss shay, simply goes to pieces." His address was replete with

encouragement and good words for homeopathy.

Mr. Carl H. Rust, one of the students, sang a solo, after which Dr. Lucy Stone Hertzog responded to the toast, "The Graduate."

Dr. T. P. Wilson spoke of "The Practitioner," keeping his audience in convulsions of laughter.

February 19th, 1892, upon request of the Faculty, the Alumni Association were allowed to name a representative on the Board of Trustees who was to take the place of Judge Coffinberry, deceased. Upon the suggestion of Dr. Biggar it was decided that during the commencement exercises both Faculty and graduating class should wear the collegiate cap and gown. The writer was the only one who objected to it and refused to be in the photograph of the Faculty group in this way. In the latter part of the term, however, while in the south, he received a letter from the committee, and also a cabinet size picture of himself arrayed with cap and gown. An artist who happened to be stopping at his hotel explained to him how it was done. How was it?

March 21st, 1892, the following named students were presented to the Board of Trustees for graduation:

Medical Department.-M. Margaret Hassler, G. G. Frost, E. P. Banning, Margaret G. Darby, C. R. Bates, Phillip T. Johnson, R. E. Pond, Orin C. Standish, W. E. Pryor, C. H. Moore, H. R. Hawkins, W. C. Hodges, M. D.; Chas. L. Gangloff, G. B. Sturgeon, George B. Haggart, Lewis L. Mong, V. P. English, Adah M. Rowland, S. B. Sabin.

Dental Department.-P. W. Murton, C. L. Kelsey, C. S. Geer, M. D.; J. M. Clyne, M. D.; George E. Bishop, W. E. Root.

At the commencement the acting President of the Board of Trustees, Rev.

Dr. George Leavitt, and most of the Professors were on the platform in cap and gown, making a very dignified appearance. The twenty-five candidates for College honors were similarly arrayed, and each one received his diploma from the hands of the Vice President, who at the same time gave words of good cheer and encouragement. L. L. Jones received the Pomeroy prize, a case of valuable obstetrical instruments. Honorary degrees were conferred upon the following:

B. Marcus Burridge, B. A., Ph. D.; S. B. Dewey, Henry Barnes, Jere E. Robinson, Ira E. Sampsel, L. B. Bethel.

All these gentlemen except Mr. Burridge were Professors in the Dental Department.

UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL.

April 7th, 1892, the Faculty enthusiastically discussed the great success with which the College had passed the year just closed. The following document is found among the records as having been adopted on that date:

We will all stand by the old College.— Resolved, That in view of the past success and the great promise of the future welfare of the College we truly pledge to her our loyalty. Signed by J. C. Sanders, H. L. Frost, H. F. Biggar, DeForrest Baker, C. D. Ellis, T. P. Wilson, H. D. Bishop, W. E. Wells, E. R. Eggleston, H. Pomeroy, W. A. Phillips, Stanton L. Hall, J. Kent Sanders and W. B. Hinsdale.

The readers of the following pages of this history will note with interest which of the above Professors violated their pledge and deserted the old College. That contract should have been binding to all those who gave the pledge, but

it was otherwise. Desertions soon followed and the compact was broken.

A post-graduate course was given during the next three weeks, and April 15th, 1892, the following names were presented for graduation:

Drs. H. R. Hawkins, Harriet W. Carmon, P. T. Johnson, S. B. Sabin, Chas. R. Bates, D. D. Bartholomew, G. G. Frost, J. O. Morrow, G. B. Sturgeon, C. T. Wyant, G. W. Wood, E. P. Banning, C. H. Moore, Adah M. Rowland, V. P. English, R. N. Sheldon, F. M. Clarke, D. Malory.

At the beginning of the session a consultation clinic was established, which took place at the College every Saturday between 10 and 12 a. ni. At this clinic were present all of the Professors, they giving their attention particularly to difficult and obscure cases. These clinics were of great advantage to the young practitioner and were well patronized during the entire session.

The following song often welcomed the Professors at their morning lecture. It closed with the College yell.

Hurrah for the Cleveland H. H. C.!
Hurrah for the tried and true!
Hurrah for the dear old alma mater!
Whose flag floats high and free.

Hurrah for the lads! Hurrah for the lassies!

Who gather round her shrine.
In devotion to Justice, Honor and Truth,
No College whatever surpasses.

Born in the hour of darkness and doubting,

Born with feeble hope."

Her children have borne her flag to the front,

And crowned her success with shouting.

Long live the dear old Cleveland College.

Long may her tribe increase,

And so from the north, south, west and

east

Shall her children come for knowledge.

Cleveland Medical College

BY A. B. SCHNEIDER, M. D.,
Professor of Anatomy and Physical Diagnosis.

"We stand henceforth on equal ground as members of the great body of the medical profession, in which we shall take a rank according to the worth of our work in the broad field of medical science."

With this declaration of faith the Cleveland Medical College had broken away from the old methods and had entered upon the battle for supremacy with the fearlessness born of a knowledge of the righteousness of her cause.

The first year of her existence was a most auspicious one, the entire faculty working together with a complete harmony, and with an enthusiasm which produced splendid lectures regularly and punctually delivered. The summer of 1891 saw the erection on a part of a lot fronting on Bolivar street of a commodious three story brick building. This was completely furnished and ready for the opening of the second annual session of the College. The main building, The main building, that fronting directly on Bolivar street, was not erected until later. In the main the faculty remained for the second year as during the first. There were, however, a few changes. Prof. Gillard resigned and his chair was added to that of Prof. Schneider. Dr. Spence retired, and Dr. Dayton's place as lecturer on Dental Surgery was taken by Dr. J. R. Bell. Mr. Bauder, as lecturer on Medical Jurisprudence, was replaced by Mr. A. J. Michael. The most important change, however, was the accession to the faculty of Prof. Frank Kraft, who took the chair of Materia Medica as an associate with Prof. Baxter.

Opening Exercises Session 1891-1892. -Words cannot describe the enthusiasm with which the faculty of the new college

were greeted as they entered the lecture room for the opening exercises, September 23d, 1891; and when Judge White, after congratulating the faculty and students on the opening of the new, handsome, and well equipped college building, said in his impressive manner, "Without disparagement, let us turn our backs upon the things of the past and press forward to the things in the future, in the most sound, sensible and judicious way," we felt that he had sounded the note of success and that the Cleveland Medical College was destined to become an alma mater of which we should always be proud.

Rev. Dr. Crandall had delivered the invocation and Judge Solders was now introduced as the orator of the occasion. He said, among many other good things, "Today you start out with seventy-three students, and I predict that you will go beyond the first milestone of one hundred members before the year is over." Many men of little faith shook their heads over this prophecy, but when the register was closed a few weeks later,

one hundred and five students had been enrolled for the year's work.

The Argonaut. During the session it was decided to issue the Argonaut monthly, beginning with January, 1892. Dr. Frank Kraft was elected editor and Dr. K. B. Waite was continued as business manager. We quote from the editorial in the January number:

"The need for a monthly homeopathic journal in Cleveland has been felt for many years, but the need was never supplied except as a venture of the Clinical Record endeavored to fill the gap. In verification of this belief witness the large classes which attend the medical colleges of our city, the abundance of clinical material presented, and the gen eral esprit de corps which obtains. The

incorporation of a new homeopathic college within the recent past, so far from proving a deteriorating influence in the homeopathic profession, has sensibly. augmented the number of classes, and drawn the eyes of the profession from all points towards Cleveland.

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"The Argonaut will be the busy doctor's journal. Every effort will be made to condense the matter presented; everything will be as brief as absolute clearness of expression and the intelligent presentation of an idea will permit. spade will be a spade. There will be no discussion of the theoretical questions of homeopathy, the belief, the faiths, the potencies, the triturations and delusions, the tinctures and absurdities of individual practitioners; but neither will these be ridiculed. There is truth in all things. It accords to its friendly opponent the same latitude of honest difference of opinion which it assumes to itself. It welcomes every brother and sister who recognizes the homeopathic principle, and who strives to follow it conscientiously. To say that we are not all perfect homeopathists is to say that we are human. It asks contributions as well from the literary and professional larder as from the financial store. Neither could succeed without the other. No hobbies will ride in these pages. If the editorial scourge is ever laid on, it will be in flagellation of willful error and purposed misleading, and never from malice." So said Editor Kraft.

The year proved to be a most successful one in every way. The facilities for teaching were much superior to those of the first year and the encouragement which had been received from the multitude of friends of the College was enough to stimulate the teaching corps to the highest efforts for good work. The students were thoroughly satisfied, and there never was a time in the history

of the College when the session closed with a more enthusiastic set of men and women starting out to work for their alma mater.

The exercises in connection with the commencement began with the banquet, which, in accordance with custom, occurred on the evening preceding the commencement exercises proper. Upwards of one hundred and fifty covers were laid in the banquet hall of the Forest City House, the tables being arranged in the form of the letter H, and beautifully decorated. The menu cards. were very artistic and festooned with knots of orange and black, the college colors. Dr. B. B. Viets presided as toastmaster, and Rev. P. E. Kipp invoked the divine blessing. The first toast of the evening was to the memory of Samuel Hahnemann and was drunk standing, in silence. The toast "The Trustees-Vigilant" was responded to by Prof. Nathaniel Schneider, in a memorable and graphic address. Rev. P. E. Kipp made a graceful speech in response to the toast "Festivity." Prof. Frank Kraft responded to the toast "Potentized Medicine-Sure." Mr. Henry Franck, of the senior class, rendered a bass solo in a manner which elicited great applause. Mr. A. B. Schneider, of the class of '94, responded to the toast "The FreshmanHope;" Mr. W. H. Phillips, '93, to the toast, "The Juniors-Confidence," and Mr. Monroe Manges, '92, to the toast, "The Seniors-Victory." Mrs. Ruth B. Kirch, '92, responded to the toast, "Doctor Feminea-Firma Est." The last speaker of the evening was Dr. John E. White, '91, who responded to the toast, "The Alumni-Loyal."

The Alumni Association held its meeting on the afternoon of the next day, which was Wednesday, March 23d, 1892. In the evening Association Hall was. filled to overflowing with the friends of

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