The Commencement exercises were held on Wednesday afternoon in the Sun room" of the Woman's Hospital, which accommodated about two hundred and fifty of the literati of the city, while one hundred and fifty ladies, Mongolian and Anglo-Saxon, sat in the large ward to the right which was made ready for the occasion. Phe chair was occupied by Mr. C. C. Clarke, Comtnissioner of Customs at the Concession, who made a telling speech at the opening. With music as a regular interlude between the addresses, he was followed by Mx. Kato, the Japanese Consul, who spoke in English on the state of medical science in the Sunrise Kingdom. Dr. Park, who is revered as a patriarch by his students, though considered as just entering the prime of life by Occidentals, "brought down the house" when he described employing an engineer for a cotton mill and, on account of the expense in importing him from the Far West, a Chinese suggested a Hanlin friend as a suitable person to fill the post 00 account of his beautiful penmanship and classic sentences. He was followed by one of the graduating class who made his speech in English. The British Consul was to have been present to deliver the Giplomas, but was detained by the receipt of dispatches from the seat of war. Six young men and one young lady, having finished the five years' course in the lecture room and clinics, received certificates of graduation. The audience was somewhat disappointed that the distinguished Provincial Treasurer, Nich, recently returned SMALLPOX ABOUNDS, Smallpox has been raging for miles round. When it began the usual charms were hung upon both children and adults, but many of both have suffered and died.
The carelessness of many concerned defies description; while the frequency with which the traveller has found in curious crowds eases in all states of development eddying towards him, made him wonder whether his temperature would rise during the next few days.
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