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Excerpt from Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of California, During the Years 1879 and 1880
My confreres upon your Committee of Arrangements desire to extend to you, through their Chairman, the right hand of fellowship, and bid you welcome!
We welcome you again to this Hall, with its nicely carpeted ?oors, its easy chairs, its elevation above the noise and confusion of the' street, and its elevator always at our command, and where, too, one year ago we held such a delightful meeting. We might have invited you to a larger and more fashionable hall in the business center of the city, with seats composed of long, hard benches sending forth their notes of discord and disapproval every time an occupant changes position; with bare ?oors better arranged for the pleasure of those who worship at the shrine of Terpsichore, sending forth the echoing footfalls of comers and goers, and where the acoustics, too, are quite as well adapted to such sounds and the rumbling of passing vehicles as to the voice of the reader or speaker! But the contrast is at once apparent without further delineation.
And then again the chord of memory draws us to this hall. O It is a principle in the human heart to love to linger over the memory of happy moments, and to desire to live them over again. Here, to-day, old friendships are renewed and cemented, and new ones formed and cultivated. But in the hour of our gladness we remember also that we had sorrows.
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