The speech of the Chairman, Dr. Farquharson, M.P., who left our staff over twenty years ago to enter Parliament, was a reminiscent one, and he particularly emphasized the work done for the original School by Mr. "Sammy" Lane. The Dean's announcement of the great increase in our entry was enthusiastically received. Captain Leonard Rogers, in replying for the Past Students, made a speech for which the GAZETTE owes him its thanks. It is very gratifying to hear from such excellent authority that it is efficiently fulfilling its chief function of helping to bind the Past and Present together. Sir Arthur Rücker made a very brief but interesting speech in second reply to the "Guests" toast, in which he told us of a considerable increase of entries at the London University. We think all who were present will endorse Sir William Broadbent's expression of the success of the evening. We have to chronicle the appointment of Dr. Poynton to the post of Assistant Physician to University College Hospital. There are two parties who are to be heartily congratulated on this appointment, Dr. Poynton himself and University College Hospital. All we at St. Mary's know how good a choice has been made in this case, for we have known Dr. Poynton now for many years. In his student days, when he swept the board of prizes and distinctions, and yet found time withal to wield a distinguished bat on the cricket field, and to support the Medical Society with the wit and readiness of his rapier-like intellect; later on, when he showed that there was not only the keenness of the rapier in his intellect but the solidity and force of heavier weapons, and during his more recent years at St. Mary's, when his power of hard work and close, clear reasoning were made manifest by the researches in conjunction with Dr. Payne, which have given him a reputation beyond the bounds even of the United Kingdom. It is needless for me to record to St. Mary's readers the tale of his doings. The most sincere compliment that can be paid to him one at his leaving our Hospital for another. However much he may identify himself with his new home, we hope and believe that he will never become a stranger to his Alma Mater. Among the Examiners elected by the Royal College of Physicians for the ensuing year are the names of Dr. Sidney Phillips in Medicine, Dr. A. P. Luff in Public Health, and Dr. H. A. Caley in Materia Medica and Pharmacy. We would particularly call the attention. of all new men to the Football Clubs. Within a very few years St. Mary's had strong sides. both in Rugby and Association, and owing largely to the fact that the teams trained with great keenness, we were successful in winning both Cups. The old generation has passed out of its year and those palmy days are no more, but there is no reason whatever why they should not return; the five-year rule presses on us no harder than on other hospitals, and in every hospital there is, or should be, a body that shall safeguard its teams against the ravages of Time; that body is the NEW MEN. Will every one of them who plays either Rugger or Soccer signify the fact to the Secretaries of the respective clubs, who will be only too pleased to give them an opportunity; and we would put it to those who may be selected to represent the Hospital that they should resolve never to let an outside club have preference of their services over St. Mary's; any keen player will find it quite worth his while to stick to a Mary's team, and we can assure the new men that if they obtain a place in one of our Cup Tie teams, they will be engaged in as "sporting" an enterprise as the Football field has to show. It is proposed to play a "Past and Present' Rugger match at Acton on December 5th. The Past team will include men who are out of their year, and is being arranged by H. J. Brewer. Will any who are able to play for it kindly send him their names? The match should prove a great success, and we shall hope to see a strong Past team take a Notes. It is with great pleasure that we announce an increase in our entry for the full course this year to forty-two, from twenty-six in 1902. All who are in touch with St. Mary's will know to whose keen energy and hard work this is largely due, and we congratulate the Dean on this very gratifying result of his labours. Mr. Matthews, the School Secretary, also deserves congratulations on the advance; he is no less untiring in his work for the welfare of the School. If we may adopt the military note that is sounding so loud just now, we will say that with a colonel and adjutant of this mettle we shall confidently expect to record a still larger "parade-state" in our report of the Autumn Manoeuvres of 1904. The time-honoured "First" has passed over the Schools and brought with it the customary batch of opening addresses. We venture to think that no Inaugural Lecture delivered in the Metropolis showed more careful thought and afforded more food for reflection than did the speech that Mr. Warren Low delivered in our Library. He took a most important subject-the relation of the Army Service to the Civil Surgeon, and the scheme that he has elaborated for the establishment of a Reserve of Civil Surgeons of high professional attainments, to be ready for instant mobilisation, is the outcome of a sound and practical knowledge of the subject. Mr. Low is no parlour critic, and we hope that at any rate the main idea of his scheme will reach that office where practical advice from practical men would seem to be so sorely needed. We were very glad to see a full report of his speech in the "British Medical Journal." There was an excellent gathering of the friends of the School, and foremost amongst them Sir William Broadbent, who kindly presented the prizes; we never remember to have seen a larger attendance of ladies. The plan of giving winners of more than one prize all their certificates in one batch is an excel The Dinner was a nice sociable family affair. If it did not show the magnetic enthusiasm with which last year we sped the parting guest, yet the hundred and eighty who were present made it plain to the recently elected Chairman of the Board that he was most heartily welcome. We sincerely regret we are unable to give a verbatim report of Mr. Page's really excellent speech, but if we could do so we should be unable to express the peculiar charm of utterance with which he clothes his well-balanced periods. No man could have paid more gracefully the tribute which the School owes to Mr. Harben, and we are exceedingly pleased that this issue will spread more widely the knowledge of that debt. Mr. Page sounded the note of the evening with the phrase "Duality in Unity." Mr. Harben worthily responded to that phrase, and in his speech we have an earnest that in the future the School and Hospital will be more closely allied in the pursuit of a conjoint Ideal. It is largely a matter of mutual understanding, and the influence of so sympathetic and practical a friend of the School on the larger Board must needs carry The speech of the Chairman, Dr. Farquharson, M.P., who left our staff over twenty years ago to enter Parliament, was a reminiscent one, and he particularly emphasized the work done for the original School by Mr. "Sammy" Lane. The Dean's announcement of the great increase in our entry was enthusiastically received. Captain Leonard Rogers, in replying for the Past Students, made a speech for which the GAZETTE owes him its thanks. It is very gratifying to hear from such excellent authority that it is efficiently fulfilling its chief function of helping to bind the Past and Present together. Sir Arthur Rücker made a very brief but interesting speech in second reply to the "Guests" toast, in which he told us of a considerable increase of entries at the London University. We think all who were present will endorse Sir William Broadbent's expression of the success of the evening. We have to chronicle the appointment of Dr. Poynton to the post of Assistant Physician to University College Hospital. There are two parties who are to be heartily congratulated on this appointment, Dr. Poynton himself and University College Hospital. All we at St. Mary's know how good a choice has been made in this case, for we have known Dr. Poynton now for many years. In his student days, when he swept the board of prizes and distinctions, and yet found time withal to wield a distinguished bat on the cricket field, and to support the Medical Society with the wit and readiness of his rapier-like intellect; later on, when he showed that there was not only the keenness of the rapier in his intellect but the solidity and force of heavier weapons, and during his more recent years at St. Mary's, when his power of hard work and close, clear reasoning were made manifest by the researches in conjunction with Dr. Payne, which have given him a reputation beyond the bounds even of the United Kingdom. It is needless for me to record to St. Mary's readers the tale of his doings. The most sincere compliment that can be paid to him one at his leaving our Hospital for another. However much he may identify himself with his new home, we hope and believe that he will never become a stranger to his Alma Mater. Among the Examiners elected by the Royal College of Physicians for the ensuing year are the names of Dr. Sidney Phillips in Medicine, Dr. A. P. Luff in Public Health, and Dr. H. A. Caley in Materia Medica and Pharmacy. We would particularly call the attention of all new men to the Football Clubs. Within a very few years St. Mary's had strong sides both in Rugby and Association, and owing largely to the fact that the teams trained with great keenness, we were successful in winning both Cups. The old generation has passed out of its year and those palmy days are no more, but there is no reason whatever why they should not return; the five-year rule presses on us no harder than on other hospitals, and in every hospital there is, or should be, a body that shall safeguard its teams against the ravages of Time; that body is the NEW MEN. Will every one of them who plays either Rugger or Soccer signify the fact to the Secretaries of the respective clubs, who will be only too pleased to give them an opportunity; and we would put it to those who may be selected to represent the Hospital that they should resolve never to let an outside club have preference of their services over St. Mary's; any keen player will find it quite worth his while to stick to a Mary's team, and we can assure the new men that if they obtain a place in one of our Cup Tie teams, they will be engaged in as "sporting enterprise as the Football field has to show. an It is proposed to play a "Past and Present' Rugger match at Acton on December 5th. The Past team will include men who are out of their year, and is being arranged by H. J. Brewer. Will any who are able to play for it kindly send him their names? The match should prove a great success, and we shall hope to see a strong Past team take a The competition for the Scholarships this year was a capital one, and we have authority for saying that the unsuccessful competitors came up to an unusually high standard. We heartily congratulate those gentlemen who were successful: G. E. Oates is an old Pauline, J. E. L. Johnston an Epsom and Mary's man, whilst D. W. Daniels and H. L. Barker uphold the fine science record of the Wyggeston Schools. The latter obtained his place through the retirement of Mr. W. E. Haigh, who has taken up the first scholarship at University College. Our University Scholars are E. Beaton and W. A. E. Dobbin, of Caius, Cambridge, and Cardiff respectively. We are very glad to welcome Messrs. Maynard Smith and F. C. Lewis to the Demonstratorships in Anatomy and Bacteriology. It may not be generally known that the latter gentleman is the distinguished author of a real live novel. Anybody who may be conscious of the possession of a "character" had better beware. By the time this issue has appeared the Medical Society will have opened its season, and we doubt not that the debate on Medical Education, led by Dr. Poynton, will have produced many excellent suggestions and criticisms. We look forward to Dr. Graham Little's paper on "Medicine and Folklore " with exceptional interest, and strongly advise our readers to turn up in force on the evening of October 28th; they are likely to be well entertained, as the speaker has a very pretty wit (a fact to which our recent Correspondence columns testify). The names of Dr. W. J. Harris, Dr. C. F. Coombs, Mr. Warren Low, Dr. A. E. Wright, Dr. B. J. Collingwood, and Dr. J. S. Collier, who will all read papers, guarantee a very instructive course of meetings. We hope that members will not fight shy of assisting in the discussions. The Annual Festival Service in the Hospital Chapel was held on the evening of Oct. 12th. The preacher was the Bishop of London. Probably the Chapel has never before been so full; those who were fortunate enough to extraordinary influence that his Lordship holds over his Diocese. The July number of "Public Health" contained a full account of Nesfield's new process for sterilising water. We sincerely hope that this excellent piece of work will meet with the attention and recognition that it undoubtedly deserves, and we may add, there are good reasons to think that it will at any rate be given a fair trial. We also note that an abstract of G. L. Tuck's paper on the Occurrence of the Tetanus Bacillus in Gelatin appeared in the last issue of "The Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology." In Atherton, our late Commissionaire, a valuable servant of the School has left after thirteen years' service. He has gone to the Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Margate, and has given up his duties here largely on account of his wife's health. A testimonial is being raised for him, as it is desired to at least defray the expenses of his move, and if any of our readers who remember him in the School will send a small subscription to the Secretary or Librarian it will be very thankfully received. We always thought that our late janitor was a fine figure of a man, but we can say with much truth that his successor, Sergeant Braid (late Sergeant-Instructor in the Scots Guards), does not fall short of him. Rumour puts him at 6-ft. 7-in., and no one has yet hazarded a guess at his chest circumference. At the last examination for entry into the Indian Medical Service, J. H. Burgess obtained the second, and C. Brodribb the third place. E. W. Bradfield also obtained a commission, and Forbes Tulloch, J. Fawcett, and O. Ievers were all placed in the list for entrance to the R.A.M.C. Sister Bindloss, formerly Sister Thistlethwayte, has returned from South Africa, where she has served on the Army Nursing Reserve for nearly four years. She is now enjoying a well-earned rest and greeting A familiar figure has gone from our midst in Miss Georgina Hallam, whom we have known as the devoted Sister of Victoria Ward, and who has retired from that charge. The labours of more than 20 years had begun to tell on her strength-as such work will-and protracted leave having failed to recuperate her powers, Miss Hallam was recommended by her medical advisers to resign her arduous duties, and engage in some lighter branch of nursing. This she accordingly did in July last, and was accorded a retiring pension by the Board. We need scarcely say that Miss Hallam carries with her the heartiest good wishes of all who know and value her. Nurse Jenner is taking charge of Victoria Ward. Sister Boynton is on extended leave, and Nurse Godsall is taking charge of Boynton Ward. Nurse Goodwyn, one of our St. Mary's nurses, who has been taking Sister's holiday duty lately, sails for India at an early date, to take up an appointment as Sister in the Indian Medical Nursing Service. Our very best wishes go with her. St. Mary's Hospital Christian Union. The following is the list of general meetings of the Christian Union arranged for the winter session, 1903-1904. Oct. 12.-E. Hurry Fenwick, Esq., F.R.C.S. Oct. 30.--Prebendary H. Webb-Peploe, M.A. Nov. 27.-M. Handfield-Jones, Esq., M.D., F.R.C.P. Dec. 11.-T. Jays, Esq. (St. Thomas' Hospital.) 1904. Jan. 12.-Sir Robert Anderson, K.C.B., LL.D., on "Intellectual difficulties of Faith." Jan. 29.-Eugene Stock, Esq. Feb. 12.-Rev. J. Scott Ledgett, M.A., on Jesus Christ and Social Problems." Feb. 26. Rev. T. Tatlow, M.A., These meetings will be held in the Special Class Room of the Medical School at 5.15 p.m., except Dr. H. Franklin Parsons Dr. Farquharson, M.P. Dr. Sydenham J. Knott N. C. Ridley, Esq. Dr. F. 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