In spotless white and amid a bower of flowers, 16 pretty young women
were handed their diplomas yesterday as graduates of the University
Hospital School for Nurses by the Dean, Prof. R. Dorsey Coale. There
were 17 nurses to graduate this year, but one of them, Miss Catherine M.
Dukes, is seriously ill and could not attend.
After the conferring of degrees Dr. Arthur M. Shipley gave the young
nurses advice as to their future. The opening prayer was delivered by
Rev. Edwin B. Niver, rector of Christ Protestant Episcopal Church, and
benediction was pronounced by Rev. Dr. Hemsley, of Oakland, Md.
The hall of the University was crowded with friends and relatives of the
graduates. It was decorated with carnations and potted palms, and around
the pillars was twined black and red bunting, the University colors. The
nurses, preceded by Professor Coale and Dr. Shipley, entered the hall in
pairs, carrying bouquets of Marguerites.
Dr. Shipley said that much of the nurses' training had been under his
supervision, and he felt a personal interest in them. Women, he said,
invariably scared him, but someone informed the physician that was not
always so, for Dr. Shipley is to become a benedict today.
“You have chosen a work that is second to none in the world,” said Dr.
Shipley. “You have before you possibilities that are almost limitless.
You are on the threshold of a life that is to be of your own making, for
the chief danger of the individual nurse is drifting. It is so easy to
forget the old-time standards and call them old-fashioned. Old-fashioned
they may be, but they have stood the test of generations of correct
living and thinking.”
At night the graduates were given a farewell reception and dance by the
undergraduates.
Dispensary Report, April, 1908, to April, 1909.
OF
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
Department. New Cases. Old Cases.
Surgical 1,703 4,448
Medical 1,709 3,199
Genito Urinary 765 2,933
Nervous 399 1,971
Women 733 1,279
Stomach 421 1,108
Throat and Nose 622 1,039
Children 761 997
Eye and Ear 712 903
Skin 473 907
Tuberculosis 190 703
Orthopedic 31 120
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8,519 19,609
Total new cases 8,519
Total old cases 19,609
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Grand total 28,128
JOHN HOUFF, M. D.,
Dispensary Physician.