MEDICAL SCHOOL GRADUATION

THE graduating exercises of the Medical School were held in Dartmouth Hall on Friday, March 30, at 4.30 o'clock, p.m. Earlier in the day the members of the class, ten in number, had been examined by delegates from the Medical . Society of New Hampshire and Vermont. This long established custom maintains comity with the profession in these two states and secures to the men who have passed the written examinations by the faculty a farther test of their fitness, from the practitioner's point of view.

Before 1878 the graduation took place in the Medical Building in the presence of the faculty and the President of the College, who conferred the diplomas with a brief address. At about that date they were transferred to the Church and the occasion was made a public one, with music, an oration and a valedictory from the class, and an address by the President and by the senior delegate from New Hampshire. They were well attended by townspeople and friends of the graduates and by students.

This year marks .a return to academic simplicity. An audience of two hundred was assembled. The College Orchestra furnished music. Reverend S. P. Deeds, D.D., made the opening prayer. The address was by Doctor Ira J. Prouty, of Keene, and was on the contribution of Galileo to medical art in his work in devoloping the thermometer and the pendulum. In the absence of President Tucker the degrees were conferred by the Dean of the School.

The President and trustees had invited the graduating class with the faculty and guests to a banquet in College Hall after the exercises. This was served at six o'clock. It is needless to say that it was a joyous occasion. It would have been so even had the banquet been less tasteful and satisfying than it was. The hardearned diplomas securely in hand were a guarantee of good feeling.

The gracious welcome into the fellowship of the alumni of Dartmouth which the President and trustees extended through this graduation banquet was highly appreciated by the class, and each and every one went away with a deep sense of love and loyalty for the College.