Charge addressed to the graduates in medicine at the commencement of the Medical Department of the Columbian College, D.C : March 10, 1830 / by Thomas P. Jones.

  • Jones, Thomas P., 1774-1848.
Date:
1830
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Credit: Charge addressed to the graduates in medicine at the commencement of the Medical Department of the Columbian College, D.C : March 10, 1830 / by Thomas P. Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHARGE. Gentlemen : Upon me, as organ of the Medical Faculty of the Columbian College, devolves the pleasing duty of congratulating you upon the consummation of your labors as students of our Institution; and, in expressing my own sentiments upon this subject, I know that I shall give utterance to those of every individual among my colleagues. We now resign the relationship of teachers and pupils which has hitherto subsisted between us; and the bidding you welcome as equals and associates, is accompanied with recollections of a very gratifying character. During the session which has terminated your collegiate studies, the deportment of the whole class, of which you have been members, has been marked by a general and a uniform decorum and propriety of conduct but rarely witnessed under similar circumstances; so far as I am informed, the babbling tongue of rumor itself has been kept silent, and a character sustained by you, equally honor- able to yourselves and to the Institution. After the ceremonies of this day our intimate association with most of you will terminate; you will become residents of other, and, several of you, of remote sections of our country, where you are to undertake those arduous and important duties which devolve upon you as professors of the healing art. When occupied in the performance of these duties, we cherish the confident hope that memory will, not unfrequently, conduct you back to those halls in which were breathed many of your most ardent aspirations after knowledge in the^Esculapian mysteries, and to an affectionate recollection of those whose most anxious