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...circumstance that it is to be delivered by one who has won high esteem and well-deserved success both in practicing and in teaching medicine. The medicine, as a profession, is every year receiving more attention, and it has already gained for itself a position among the highest and noblest callings open to young men. But with the increasing dignity and worth, the difficulty of success has also increased. Not every one can now make a living, much less a name, as an M. D., and the able doctor of forty or fifty years ago would be unable to compete...
...gentleman and a sculler, and the noblest row-man of them all," is the eulogy recently passed upon a famous college oarsman...
...venerable years, nor traditions, nor the fame of its learning, nor all these together," says the Magazine, "give name and character to our noblest and best institutions of learning so much as the influence of the men who have gone out from their walls, carrying with them deep and lasting veneration and love for the alma mater. If they have the impress from the college on their characters and manners of generous and elevating instruction, and possess some peculiar, fine flavoring of life, derivable from its distinctive qualities, they will prove living epistles in its behalf and interest known...
...remarks as to the hard and painful dilemma in which their poorer class-fellows are placed by the present system. They have either to contribute what they cannot spare or undergo the reproach and stigma of meanness. One word in conclusion. Many - if not most - of the best and noblest men of old England, during the past sixty or seventy years, were good at the oar, at foot-ball, at cricket; but they did not allow those games to encroach on their more serious duties. At Rugby, at Winchester, and other public schools, and afterwards at Oxford and Cambridge, they...
Your honor lacked its noblest crown...