The address delivered at the opening of the classes of the Middlesex Hospital Medical College, session 1859-60 / by Mitchell Henry.

  • Henry, Mitchell, 1826-1910.
Date:
1859
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Credit: The address delivered at the opening of the classes of the Middlesex Hospital Medical College, session 1859-60 / by Mitchell Henry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    are the same friendly greetings, the same encouraging smiles, for we are met to welcome back the old pupils, and to offer a no less cordial greeting to the new. The ceremony, indeed, may lack in novelty, the words of wel¬ come and of warning have been spoken again and again from this place, but not yet too often. The prelections of friendship are always cheering, and it is as those who would be amongst your best friends, that we meet you here to-day. This consideration it is that has done most to reconcile me to the formidable and unsought undertaking of deliver¬ ing the Introductory Address. Great, and to me impos¬ sible, would be the task, if it were required that the Ad¬ dress should be worthy of the occasion, but I am yet en¬ couraged by the thought that if, with becoming earnest¬ ness, I shall have expressed the heartfelt pleasure that we experience in finding ourselves again surrounded by those who at once stimulate and appreciate our labours, my task will have been more than half performed. To you, Sir, it is my duty and my privilege to offer our grateful thanks for the uniform encouragement which, as the organ of the Governors of this Hospital, you have ever afforded to the cause of Medical Education; an en¬ couragement, let me say, that we the more appreciate, inasmuch as it is attended with much personal exertion, and with never-failing courtesy. To you, Pupils, and friends of former years, I have to say, that those sentiments of regard and esteem which were fostered amidst labours that we have shared together in days gone by, do not grow less warm because we have always found you anxious to maintain the honour of your Alma Mater, and to shew, by your presence here, on occa¬ sions such as this, that your interest in her and hers is no