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Excerpt from Introductory Address to the Class of Rush Medical College: Delivered November 7, 1860
This evening inaugurates the Eighteenth Annual Course of Lectures in Rush Medical College, and you are assembled to receive from us, your instructors, and we to Offer to you a welcome to our institution. This welcome we' now most cor dially extend you, and while so doing, we cannot avoid con gratulatin g ourselves and the. Friends of the Institution upon the fact, that the number of students in attendance upon the pre liminary course just past, and present on this, the first day Of the present session, is much greater than on any previous year since the foundation Of the institution. This faét we cannot but accept as an earnest that our. Previous efforts, to afford to students Of the Northwest a thorough course of medical instruction, has met the approval Of the profession at large, as well as of those of you whose familiar faces have been before us in previous sessions. While feeling this to be a reward for the past, we are also stimulated to further endeavors to merit the approbation of those whose favorable Opinion we desire to secure, as those most capable of judging our efforts.
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