women were awarded degrees in medicine at the third annual commencement exer jeises of the Woman's Christian Medical College on June 12, The programme was carried out with "impressive ceremony. - The graduates, former students, and Visiting doctors, in fall robes' added the picturesqueness of the exercise, At four o'clock the processional was begun, Graduates in gowns and mortar board and 30 visiting doctors fevered the well filled assembly hall the Margaret Williamson Hospital and marched to their places the platform, arose and joined in service for Dr, Sun. De, Sun's will was read and honour paid to his memory. "While the: 39 undergraduate members of the school sang, the audience remained standing an address to the graduating lass, the President of -Gialing College, Dr. 1, F. Wu stressed the obligations " of the doctor to the patient and the world. "You are expected to render skilled service to the hurts of humanity," he said, "But oven greater than the duty of skilful performance is that of treat ing each individual ease with the sympathetic attention it, deserves, You must remember that you are not experimenting with a technical laboratory problem, when you. are entrusted with the life of a human being, Regardless of the station of your patient, you must regard hint fas deserving' of your best, In you work in this country you will treat all classes of society. It is your bounden duty to afford all the oat of attention without discrimination in social status, ereed, or other <ir= Jeumstance of the patient.
"The rewards for your work are limitless. The greatest return for your work is the very fact that you fare instrumental in prolonging and segonerating life. If you are rue to the traditions of your profession you will enjoy the honour that acoes from faithful and valuable nity."
Dr, Z. T. Wang, president of the Woman's Christian Medical College, administered the Hippocratic Ouch By. this, the hold the tradi Nous and rules of the medical peo: fession, and to conduct their, professional life in accordance with the ideals of humanity.
Applause greeted each student individually as she walked to the rostrum to receive her diploma and be presented with the hood indicative of her degree. Certificates. of completion of a year of intern work-the hospital wore awarded im= mediately after, Mrs, C. C. Chen, Chairman of the Board of Directors, distributed the diplomas, whic De: Eula Eno Superintendent of the hospital, draped the hoods about the shoulders of the women who were graduated. The Rev. Sidney Anderson read the prayer closing the exercises and wished the graduates godspeed on their careers.
As the graduates and visiting doctors filed out of the room ty the strains of the recessional, the audience gathered in the hospital reception room for informal ten. Here they later congratulated those who were graduated.
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