On universities and libraries, teaching and examination : address to the graduates in medicine at the close of the summer session, University of Glasgow, Tuesday, July 30, 1878 / by John Ferguson.

  • John Ferguson
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1878
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Credit: On universities and libraries, teaching and examination : address to the graduates in medicine at the close of the summer session, University of Glasgow, Tuesday, July 30, 1878 / by John Ferguson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    you have at last reached the goal which you may sometimes in dreary days have thought was very far away. But by patience and perseverance you have now received the assurance of having satisfied the University that you have with diligence availed your¬ selves of the opportunities put within your reach, for acquiring a knowledge of the different departments of medicine. You have during the long period of four years been slowly acquiring both training and know¬ ledge, and at the present moment you feel as Captain Cuttle said of his friend Mr. Gills, “ chock full o’ science.” You naturally ask what are you to do with it all. Well, if I may judge from my own experience there is some of it that you will forget, and there is a good deal of it that you will never forget. The knowledge which you have acquired will remodel itself gradually: slowly it will be sifted by actual use, by fresh observation and extended experience, and after some time it will be less dependent on mere memory, and more a part of your very self. But while-this process of transmutation and assimilation is continually going on, you will find the training you have received will remain more constantly with you. You have, partly by external influences, partly by self-imposed efforts, directed your thoughts in a particular direction for four years, and that training you will never alto¬ gether lose, even though from circumstances you should
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