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Excerpt from Valedictory Delivered at the Ninth Annual Commencement of the Medical Department of the University of the Pacific: At Mercantile Library Hall, December 7th, 1871
The occasion which your Alma Mater this evening celebrates - the marriage Of five Of her sons to the pro fession Of their choice - the launching Of their barks upon the sea where the great battle of life awaits them is one Of such importance that She would fain ask you for one more audience - ask to speak a few parting words. The young man on the eve Of leaving his home, to take part, as an individual, in the struggles of life, often finds long, tedious and prosy, the words which parental caution whispers in his ear, but ere the career of life is finished, his mind runs back to such words, and memory holds fast to them as precious treasures, As. Your Alma Mater invests you with the battle-cloak and shield, she expects you, SO to wear them as to bring no dishonor upon the lineage and escutcheons of the old and noble race to which, this night, you are legally wed.
Methinks I hear some of you ask, Izow may we SO wear the chlamys and bear the shield, as to satisfy the hopes Of the institution which now grants us its high est honors, Of the profession with which these honors affiliate us in the future? I will endeavor to answer your question.
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