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Excerpt from An Address Delivered at the Annual Commencement of the Medical School of Harvard University: Wednesday, March 6, 1861 IN the year that has elapsed, since you last came to this College for the purpose of conferring degrees, much has been said and something has been done in this matter of medical education, some of the results of which are now before us I will ask your permis sion, then, to make a few remarks upon those sayings and doings; to call attention briefly to the Work done here, and the mode of doing it, before addressing myself to the task especially assigned to me at this time, that of giving exhortation and counsel to those who have just received from you their diplomas, and are going forth with the sanction of this ancient University. It is probably known to all here present, that the American Medi cal Association, a body composed of delegates from the medical societies and colleges scattered throughout What has been, and, as we trust, will still be, known as the United States of America, has for a leading object the improvement of medical education. In the first volume of their Transactions, We have two long reports, one of a committee on preliminary education, the other of one on medical education, sixteen resolutions being appended to these two reports. Seven other reports are to be found in the subsequent Volumes. The teachers of medicine were invited to meet in convention, and several schools sent delegates to Louisville in 1859, and to New Haven in 1860. A committee of conference With these conventions made a report at the last meeting of the American Medical Asso elation, in Which eight resolutions Were preposed to that body, seven of which, with some modifications, Were adopted. 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.