Dedication of the new buildings of the Harvard Medical School : September twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and six.

  • Harvard Medical School.
Date:
1906
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Credit: Dedication of the new buildings of the Harvard Medical School : September twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and six. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Then followed the dedication of the buildings by the President of the University: I devote these buildings, and their successors in coming time, to the teaching of the medical and surgical arts which combat disease and death, alleviate injuries, and defend and assure private and public health ; and to the pursuit of the biological and medical sciences, on which depends all progress in the medical and surgical arts and in preventive medicine. 1 solemnly dedicate them to the service of individual man and of human society, and invoke upon them the favor of men and the blessing of God. A chorus of Alumni of the University, under the direction of Warren Andrew Locke, A.M., Organist and Choir-Master of the University, sang “ Laudate Dominum,” to music composed for the occasion by Frederick Shepherd Converse, A.B., Assistant Pro- fessor of Music. The formal exercises of the day were concluded by George Angier Gordon, D.D., with the benediction : May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with us all evermore. Afternoon tea was served upon the terrace, and the buildings were thrown open for inspection.