Valedictory Address Delivered at the Seventh Annual Commencement of the Homeopathic Medical College, of Pennsylvania

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Excerpt from Valedictory Address Delivered at the Seventh Annual Commencement of the Homeopathic Medical College, of Pennsylvania: March 1, 1855My colleagues have assigned me the pleasing duty of addressing you at this our last interview. To-day has been set apart as the period for your professional inauguration, an event in the history of each one of you, to which you have doubtless looked forward with mingled feelings of pleasure and solicitude. Permit me to con gratulate you upon its happy consummation. You have passed through the curriculum of professional pupilage, as ordained by the statutes of Medical Colleges. You have diligently pursued a series of studies, and patiently endured the labors and trials necessarily attendant upon the career of Medical Students. You now come prepared to partake of the privileges, and to wear the honors, pecu liar to your chosen profession. I am happy to be able to assert to this audience, that you are worthy recipients of all the honors, titles, and immunities which can be conferred upon you by your Alma Mater. A new era now opens to your fertile minds, old associa tions are to be destroyed, and new and more important relationships formed. You are about to enter into full fellowship with a noble and time-honored fraternity. This evolution involves many new duties, and engenders many serious re¿ections, and now, on the eve of its assumption, will you pardon me, if I offer you brie¿y some parting words of counsel?Your hearts are buoyant with the elasticity of youth, a pano ramic view of the future is spread out to your mind's eye, like a pleasing and beautifully colored landscape. Not a spot appears upon the canvass to darken the ardor of your ambition. The voyage of life appears a history of unceasing and incessant pleas ing events. Not a cloud obscures the horizon of your hopes.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.