Editorial Department. CLEVELAND MEDICAL AND SURGICAL REPORTER. To The Business Manager, 818 Rose Bldg.. Cleveland, Ohio. Please enter my name as a Subscriber, commencing with.. issue, and continue my name on your list until countermanded. Address. It is requested that cheeks and postal orders be made payable to Cleveland Medical and Surgical Reporter. Subscription Price $1.00 per annum, 10 cents per copy. WILL OUR READERS KINDLY MENTION THE VERTISERS. increase in the requirements that go to make up a well trained doctor, and we feel that this class will honor themselves and the college from which they have received a thorough training. The members of the graduating class are as follows: Andrew S. Brunk, Earl W. Cliffe, souled hospitality, old-fashioned, heart free hospitality, than they Caldan Dulo" City of Toledo. "Do you drink yourself?" "That's my business!'-angrily. Whereupon the unmoved lawyer asked: "Have you any other business?" Editorial Department. NEWMAN T. B. NOBLES, M. D., Editor. 1110 EUCLID AVE. MISS R. H. TOMPKINS, Business Manager. 818 ROSE BUILDING. Published at 818 Rose Bldg., Cleveland, O. Price $1.00 per year Entered as second-class matter at the Post-office at Cleveland, O., under the Aot of Congress, March 3d. 1879. OHIO STATE BOARD RESULTS. 1 The Gazette extends its most sincere congratulations to the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College upon the excellent results obtained by its graduates at the June meeting of the Ohio State Board. According to the Journal A. M. A., we find that "the total number of candidates examined was 140, of whom 150 passed and 6 failed." In spite of the above peculiar method of figuring totals th data given below are most gratifying and most commendatory of the work done by our allied college. Out of 6 applicants for registration from the Cleveland Homeopathic School two obtained an average of 93 per cent each, which was the highest mark given at the examination. Several from other schools obtained a percentage of 92 and a third homeopathic graduate received 91 per cent. Certainly this does not look as if the Cleveland School were doing anything but the best work.-New England Medical Gazette. The above requires no comment. We have known that here in Cleveland we are doing the best kind of work. With our increased clinical facilities, our adequate laboratory advantages and our salaried teachers we progress each year. Think over this information, Mr. Reader, and then direct your students to the best college. GRADUATION EXERCISES. On the evening of May 14th, this year's graduating class received their diplomas at the Hollenden Hotel. The new physicians, thirteen in number, are well equipped to start in the practice of medicine. Each year there seems to be an increase in the requirements that go to make up a well trained doctor, and we feel that this class will honor themselves and the college from which they have received a thorough training. The members of the graduating class are as follows: Andrew S. Brunk, Earl W. Cliffe, Vera Davenport, Wm. E. Franklin, Eleanor Handmacher, Mark C. Houston, Jay G. Keiser, Fred C. Rounds, Fred B. Schenkelberger, Mark Searle, Chas. M. Swingle, Michael Temcoff, and Percy Vessie. The following program was carried out: 1 Music 2 Invocation 3 Music 4 Presentation of Diplomas Johnston's Orchestra Rev. E. Melville Wylie Johnston's Orchestra By the President of the Board of Trustees, Gaius J. Jones, M. D. At the conclusion of the exercises there was served a successful banquet. Toasts were responded to by the Rev. E. Melville Wylie, T. R. Dunlap, Esq., Dr. E. R. Cliffe and Miss Gertrude Meck, Prof. James C. Wood, President G. J. Jones and Dean George W. Quay. Dr. Jones' address was as follows: Members of the Graduating Class:-On this occasion, which, to you, is perhaps, one of the most memorable so far of any in your lives, I desire to say something which will give you, possibly, additional evidence to that which you possess that you have made a good selection when you chose the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College as your Alma Mater. It is forty-five years since I entered the doors of our college as a freshman. To illustrate the brevity of human life-even when no attention is paid to the theory of Dr. Osler, or to his advice (and by the way, it must be that Dr. Osler has passed the time limit to which he referred in that remark, which did an incalculable amount of harm, and yet I have no knowledge of his engaging any etherizing room for his own personal use) I will state that not one member of the faculty of that time is living today. I have a right to speak for this college, for I can say and I make this statement advisedly-that I have contributed more time. energy and money to this college than has any other person in the city of Cleveland to any similar institution. I have also been a teacher in it continuously since 1872. The history of this college is a large part of the history of Homeopathy in this country, and in the world. In Ohio it has been the chief source of supply of Homeopathic graduates, and the fountain-head to which all Homeopathic physicians in this state have looked to for aid and encouragement in the good work in which they were engaged. It required a vast amount of energy-as well as love for the profession-to cause those men who founded the school and kept it in the front rank as long as their names were published as members of the faculty. To lecture four, five or six times a week, scarcely ever being tardy to the extent of a few minutes, was a severe task, This was done at the expense of loss of business, sleep and time for recreation. Undoubtedly the lives of many of those were shortened on account of this great devotion to the school. The men who have occupied the places on the faculty in recent years have been quite as diligent in many respects as were our lamented seniors. The increased length of term, and the greater number of hours occupied. demands the work of a larger corps of teachers than in those by-gone days; besides, four teachers instead of one are working at a time What has been the result of all the arduous labor? Nearly two thousand persons have received the diplomas of this institution, and there is not a state in the Union-and scarcely a country of any importance in the world-that isn't blessed with the services of some of these honorable men and women. Scarcely a Homeopathic college west of Boston, New York and Philadelphia has not upon its faculty one or more of the alumnae of this college. The deans of a number of such institutions are now, or have been, alumnae of our school. These colleges, like our own, are now represented by many of their own alumnae, who are doing a good work in different parts of the world. It is not the large college, with the larger endowment, that always turns out the best product. An alumnus of our little Hiram College, so ably represented here tonight by its president, became president of the United States. I question whether every large college in the United States had an alumnus who secured such a high position. Fortunately, money cannot accomplish as much as it attempts to, and I am glad to know that scarcely one of our small colleges in this country has been obliged to go into liquidation because of the attempt of many wealthy men to centralize all teaching in a few schools. I have attended a lecture in one of the larger medical colleges in this country where five hundred students were attempting to learn the subject considered. It was a difficult task, and as far as learning anything in connection with an operation, except, perhaps, that the incision was made either above or below the diaphragm, it would have been mere folly. I would as soon think of learning the intricacies of a slight-of-hand performance from a tree-top. In the school of the soldier very little can be learned in regard to individual movements in a brigade or regimental drill, and even in a company or platoon drill not much of that nature can be learned. It is in the squad drill, where a few men are taken out under the instruction of a sergeant, or even as corporal, that these movements are learned to perfection. In our school, as you know, the student is in close proximity to the operator, and all that the eye can see is capable of being understood. |