An Address Delivered Before The Alumni Association Of The College Of Physicians And Surgeons PDF Download

Excerpt from An Address Delivered Before the Alumni Association of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of New York, Medical Department of Columbia College: At the Ninth Annual Meeting, March 15, 1867 Gentlemen, Alumni of the College of Physicians and Surgeons: Your Alma Mater summons you here this evening to celebrate her sixtieth birthday. Although she has reached the age of threescore years, she shows no signs of decaying strength. Her face is not wrinkled, "her eye is not dim, nor is her natural force abated." She rejoices in her numerous family, and from each annual brood of her offspring she derives renewed health and vigor, as the parent trunk of the banian tree receives new life and strength from the offshoots by which its branches communicate with the earth. On this auspicious occasion, she invites her sons to lay aside their ordinary avocations, and to assemble beneath the maternal roof, that she and they may rejoice together in their common prosperity, and may talk together of the days of "Auld lang syne." The days of her life have been among the most eventful which have been recorded in the annals of time. During the sixty years which have elapsed since she came into existence, the application of steam to the propulsion of vessels on rivers, and lakes, and seas, and oceans, has effected a most important revolution in the commerce of the world. The construction of railroads, and of trains of cars drawn by locomotives, has brought remote regions into close proximity, and the time is rapidly approaching when the iron horse shall traverse an unbroken chain of communication across our vast continent from ocean to ocean, completing with ease, within a week or ten days, a line of travel which, but a few years ago, consumed weary months, and exposed the hardy pioneers who undertook it to extraordinary perils and privations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.