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![aclniiration ; but its advantages in tliost; paiis of our profession only seem greater—they are not really greater—than in the wider duties of advising and prescribing. In every part and time of life, self-possession—that is, the power of tldnking in the midst of distracting forces—is one of the best possessions that a man can have. Strive for it with all vonr mio-ht: and the best place in which to get it is in the examination room. I may seem to have gone beyond my subject in thus mag-nifying, though not falsely, the value of examinations, and shoMang how they may render you life-long service. But I am sure that I shall not have wasted time, either yours or mine, if I lead you to the habit of submitting to them very frequently, through tlie whole course of your studies; and let them be both oral and in wi-itino-—of the same kinds as those which you will have finally to pass for your diplomas; and before those who are in some authority and to whom you would be ashamed to show a constant incapacity. Let me now try to help you—so far as by any advice I caii do it—to success in practice. I hai-dly need say that the first step to it is to get the largest amount of professional knowledge that you possibly can. Of course you must learn more than is necessary for your compulsory examinations. I have spoken of these as difficult; yet remember that the standard set for those which must be passed is only that which is essential to the public safety; and tlie estimate of the enough for safety is not too strictly made. Surely, none of you should be content with being only just safe—only just fit to be intrusted with the duties of his ])rofession! The measure of our duty is much higher than that. It is not what we must, but what we can, attain, not perhaps easily, or witli a little effort, but with all our might, and all the help that wc can get. Nothing less tlian this is the measure of your duty: let nothing less than this ho the measure of your will. It may seem to you tliat your duty, as students, is limited to the attaininent of the knowledge necessary for examinations; that a diploma is, a.s it were, the wages of your work: and that to do more than enough for this would bo su|)(>rMuous. Indeed it is not so. The whole of the work that a student docs, how- fivor gi-cat itmay be, i.s sure to l)epaid for in after Viih. I i Jjink](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21507326_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
