Valedictory address to the graduating class of Jefferson Medical College, at the fifty-first annual commencement : delivered in the Academy of Music, March 11, 1876 / by William H. Pancoast.

  • Pancoast, William Henry, 1834-1897.
Date:
1876
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Credit: Valedictory address to the graduating class of Jefferson Medical College, at the fifty-first annual commencement : delivered in the Academy of Music, March 11, 1876 / by William H. Pancoast. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    glorious Union. Here will be assembled from every zone, and almost every land stretched between the equator and the poles, all that they can supply that is beautiful in art, and wonderful in mechanical construction. There will be, in addition, fabrics from the looms of “Ormus and of Ind,” the wonderful production of the needle-work of the Persian maids, fair representations of the glittering jewels that have been won from the mines of Potosi, Brazil, Golconda, and the Cape ; specimens of mosques, kiosks, and pagodas, and other temples in which the heathen worship. This exhibition will probably be the most perfect of the kind that the world has yet seen, and may perhaps be the last we shall have dis- played before us. Here will be shown evidences of all that the brilliant genius and exhaustless ingenuity of the present age have developed and placed at man’s use and disposal, as well as full representations of the beautiful arts of painting and sculpture, both ancient and modern ; a fair knowledge of which serves ever to embellish and ennoble one’s exist- ence. All this, I trust many of you will come to see; and if you survey intelligently and well, all the wonders that will there be accumulated, it will serve you as another liberal education. Come, then, to this feast of knowledge and marvel, and we will renew our memories of the past. And in parting with you, if it should not seem piesump- tuous, I would invoke the blessing of Providence, to protect you against the storms of life, and to shower down manifold blessings on your career. And now Farewell—a word that must be and hath been ; A word that makes us linger, yet farewell.
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