the College who had come to offer their congratulations and good wishes to the graduates. Hon. Henry C. White, Vice President of the College, presided, and Rev. L. A. Crandall delivered the invocation. The Dean of the Faculty, Dr. G. J. Jones, made a short address, including a very satisfactory statement of the work done in the College and dispensary during the year. He was succeeded by Judge White, who, in a few appropriate words, conferred the honorable degree of doctor of medicine upon the following candidates:

Cornelia Crosby Albert, Arthur Besemer, Howard Burhanse Besemer, Helen Babcock, Homer Bryant, George H. Bradt, George H. Cole, Harriet Warner Carman, Henry Franck, B. A.; Herman C. Galster, Ben Wilgus Genung, Ruth Beckwith Kirch, M. E.; J. Elmer Moore, Monroe Manges, Hannah Burroughs Mulford, Henry Lewis Stem, Frank W. Somers, Albert E. McClure, Harry Louis Sexton, Andrew D. Smith, Phillip Henry Sigrist, B. S.; H. Josephine Wright, John L. Winslow, M. D.; John Melvin Wallace.

Judge White then addressed the new graduates, speaking many words of advice and encouragement. He also addressed the audience and referring briefly to his own official position, deplored the absence of means for educating the many who are ignorant of the simplest rules of sanitation and hygiene, and of the simplest duties of parenthood.

Rev. L. A. Crandall entertained the audience with a very humorous address. His parting words to the class were beautiful and eloquent and were heartily applauded.

Another musical number and the benediction concluded the exercises and

closed in a fitting manner the work of the second session of the new college, which had come to stay, and "according to the worth of her work in the broad field of medical science" had in the shortest space of time mounted

an enviable position in the list of homeopathic colleges. Her large classes attested the confidence of the profession; the success of her students in practice and in competitive examination attested the thoroughness of her instruction; and her steady march "onward, ever upward" attested an unanimity of purpose and harmony of action on the part of her faculty which was destined to speedily place. her in the front rank of medical colleges.

In the remarks I may offer this evening I may present no new truths—in fact, preferring old ones; for all my words cluster about that sweetest and richest of all last words; the plain old Anglo-Saxon word, good-bye.

It is a good thing to be born into this world; and yet, so far as character and destiny are concerned, there may be events which to you and to me are of far greater importance than is this first fact of independent physical existence.

Life is epochal in its character; and today a point in life's history is reached toward which you have been toiling with much care, and the reaching of which constitutes an event which before the law makes you the peer, the equals of your teachers and of those who have been years in the profession you have chosen.

I wish we might summarize from the lives of those we consider the honored, successful members of this professionand all professions-the lines of thought and action, the following of which has placed them in the positions they occupy. And here I might add, as a passing thought, that it is fortunate for most of us that the secret of success is not one that must be bought with money; nor where heredity with hand of fate transmits the glittering prize from sire to son. But to our former thought: Should we examine with fair earnestness into these lives, I think that through them would be found running a thread, the weaving of which into the texture of their lives has given them that which many another not possessing has striven for success and failed. In brief, the secret of their success may be found largely in this: their adherence to what tney believed to be right principles, and their earnestly striving for the perfect evolvement of them.

In the stir of this busy life, where the possibilities of erring ever enter into even the best exercise of judgment, absolute infallibility is never demanded in the exercise of what we believe to be right. It is this generous latitude that permits men of widely different creeds -medical, political, religious—to accord each to the other credit for honesty of convictions; and it is this catholicity of thought that makes progress possible, by stimulating original investigation and careful analysis.

Today you go forth as representatives of the principles of a system of medicine, and you are expected to know these principles and as honest men and women to defend and illustrate them by their practical workings. The system of medicine you have adopted has clustering about it truths whose full meaning and application can scarcely be learned by a lifetime of study, and yet whose daily study richly repays the one who patiently, perseveringly seeks their meaning. All important is it that entering upon the duties of professional life your convictions. be well grounded, and that by the constant study of these principles you feel yourselves thoroughly convinced as to their truth. Without this conviction life loses its greatest incentive to the evolving of the best within you, and life will lose much of the fulness of its meaning. Do not attempt to please, to practice, at the expense of principle. Results obtained in this way are but dead sea apples-beautiful, perchance, in appearance, but turning to ashes as you hope to taste their sweetness. A life governed by principles is like the magnet in nature; possessing that which draws kindred particles to itself. Such are, indeed, some lives, perhaps many, that you have known. It was not their scholarship, their genial wit of polished rhetoric that drew you to them; in fact, they may

have been deficient in some of the "graces of the schools;" but they were God-made magnets, through whose perhaps somewhat rough exterior was recognized and felt that principle—loyalty to truth-without which no man can secure the best success. Let us submit this magnet, this life possessing convictions. and principles, to a closer examination; let the light of our highest conceptions of a true physician fall upon it, and how his character glows and reflects the primary virtues. See self-sacrifice and gentleness and patience and days and nights of toil, the entering into the cares and sorrows of others; at once their confidante and helpful burden bearer. And how these characteristics blend! producing even divinity's highest conception of life-a ministry of service.

As you enter your different fields of practice, who will be the most successful, who will possess that warm magnetic power that binds in invisible, indissoluble bonds the patient and physician? It is you who, possessing conscientious devotion to principle and the intelligent application of the same, realize in the devotion of your patients and friends to your ministry the richest compensation of your toil. To the securing of this end one thought is ever necessary; the work in which you and I are engaged is of greater importance than are you and I, the workmen. If you honor your work, your work will honor you; and he best exemplifies the true physician whose ideal of his profession ever beckons him onward. Do not expect, however, that faithful service will always meet merited recognition. The Great Physician of Galilee often carried a sad heart during his ministry on earth because of the rejection by those whom he longed to bless. You at times will feel the keen sting of ingratitude and lack of apprecia

tion, but be true to the best within you and work on. Yes, work! What dignity greater than the dignity of work, the dignity of working for one's fellows. Well does Mrs. Browning say:

"Get leave to work!

In this world 'tis the best you get at all; For God in cursing gives us better gifts Than man in benediction."

And again she says for the encouragement of every earnest worker:

"Be sure no honest work Of any honest creature howbeit weak, Imperfect, ill-adapted, fails so much, It is not gathered as a grain of sand To enlarge the sum of human actions used

For carrying out God's ends.

The honest, earnest man must stand and work;

The woman also; otherwise she drops at

once

Below the dignity of man."

But the idea of work carries with it another thought, work's complement, patient waiting. To him who waits best. success is half assured. Not waiting like Dickens' prince of visionary waiters, hoping that in some way, in some indefinite hit or miss adaptation of circumstances, fortune or an indulgent Providence may cause your professional boat to sail onward; but working while waiting, thus testing the proverb so aptly quoted by Holland, "Get thy spindle and thy distaff ready, and God will send thee flax." And well does Ruskin say, "patience lies at the root not only of all pleasures, but also of all powers." It is this patient working and waiting, often in the office and alone, that the best within us is evolved; and the poet Goethe expressed much of truth when he said, "While character is developed in the stream of life, talent is developed in solitude."

The quiet days of professional life should not be days of masterly inactivi

ty; nor should the busy days be characterized by forgetfulness of other intellectual demands. Gladstone, when well on to three score years and ten, found time amid the pressing cares of national responsibility to produce perhaps the best translation and critical analysis of Homer extant; while our medical and miscellaneous libraries attest the wondrous labors of some men who, devoted to profession, found time to give of the richness of their knowledge for the benefit of their fellowmen.

That man does most for his profession, and gets most from it, who makes all learning, so far as he is able, pay tribute to it. In no profession is breadth of culture more helpful, more essential, than in the profession you have chosen. Presenting a field of study as broad as human thought, as deep as human passion, as complicated as this crowning piece of created mechanism, man, it certainly calls for all the helps that may aid in its consideration. "Therefore get wisdom❞—from every source-“and with all thy getting, get understanding; for length of days are in her right hand, and in her left hand riches and honor. Exalt her and she shall promote thee."

But even with these hurriedly spoken words I must hasten; and yet as teachers and friends would we tarry a moment at the College threshold ere you pass from these duties to those for which these duties have been preparing you.

In the future, as "Memory, the sweet muse-mother," lovingly recalls the events of the past, may she recall to your minds the earnestness of the hope of your alma mater for your welfare as she sends you forth, the first of her children, to champion the cause of suffering humanity under the banner of similia. As

the months and years pass by do not permit a spirit of indifferentism to so tarnish the banner which today proudly bears similia similibus curantur, that the world, as it views your course, cannot distinguish its motto from that of any other system or school. Your alma mater exacts no pledge of loyalty to her. she trusts you; but she does ask constant loyalty to those principles which with all earnestness she has endeavored to present to you, believing that as you honor them you best honor her.

Borrowing an illustration from the Apostle Paul, I would say, "the professional race is before you; go! but remember that no man is crowned unless he strive lawfully." Then with eyes fixed upon the mark of untarnished professional honor, press on. Be progressive,

'tis the still water freezeth;" push on. And closing these remarks I would add the thought of Charles Dickens as expressed by Little Tim in Christmas. stories; "God bless you all, every one."

The Homeopathic Physician

BY Z. T. MILLER, M. D., PITTSBURG, PA.

A Homeopathic physician is one who adds to his knowledge of medicine a special knowledge of Homeopathic Therapeutics. All that pertains to the great field of medical learning is his by tradition, inheritance, by right. At last we are placed squarely before the world. Of course the world has actually supposed that, having graduated from colleges that have the legends, "Hahnemann," "Homeopathic," etc., over the portals, we are physicians who add an especial knowledge of Homeopathic Therapeutics to our general knowledge of medicine. They had additional cause