Easton Hospital School of Nursing - Ligature Yearbook (Easton, PA)

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Students of the Senior Class of the Easton Hospital Students are an interesting group, in fact, Shakespeare might have made them fourth, in his immortal group, I. The lunatic with his fixed idea. 2. The poet with his fine frenzy. 3. The lover with his frantic idolatry. 4. The student adame with the desire for knowledge. F the student is to be a devotee of hffinerva, the Goddess of learning, she must have a whole-souled determination, a steadfastness of purpose and great energy. The student, like the poet, is born, not made. The student is but an lover, courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes her grasp. It is here that the steadfastness of purpose is brought out. You have had teachers, oracles, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive recep- tacles or possibly the teachers have been more like senior students anxious to help juniors and this type is what builds up a good spirit for the course you have been taking as a life work, for which the few years under teachers is but a small proportion. You can all become good students, a few may become great students and now and then one is found who will con- form to John Ferriar's definition of a genius. Thoroughness is the most difficult habit to acquire but is the pearl of great price worth all the worry and trouble ofthe search. Read, read, read that you may know what has been done and is being done elsewhere. The value of a really great student to the country may be equal to many great factories or a transcontinental railway. Think of Fulton, Howe, Wihitney, hfforsc, Jenner, Pasteur, Koch and Nightingale. VVe cannot tell where the next will arise, some 20th century Night- ingale or Edison may be pulling away at a Hygeia in the Children's YVard. A hffankind, the most complicated mechanism, will be the subject of your study and care. The new-born infant, the guileless child, the lad or lass of puberty or adolescence, the man in the prime of life, the woman in maternity, and the aged and worn out. Science and art of nursing and medicine may change but there will be no change in the essential features of life which will be the object of your care. Now for a little advice. Good humor, a breezy cheerfulness, a nature sloping toward the southern siden, as Lowell has it, helps enormously both in the study and practice of nursing as well as medicine. 'It is unpardonable to go about among your patients with Z1 long face. If you don't understand something, look it up in books or work it out for yourself. Mix as much as possible with the outside world and learn its ways. Cultivate your Nurses' So- cieties and meetings and the social circles. Do the work of the day well. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itselff, You who are Seniors of the Training School for Nurses will be graduates facing the stern realities of your profession. You have my very best wishes for your life's work. FREDERICK C. ROBERTS 6

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5 Florence Nightingale ' Pledge I solemnly pledge myseh' before God and in the presence of this assembly to pass my lqfe in purity and to practice my profession faithfully. I will abstain from whatever is dele- terious and mischievous, and will not talee or knowingly ad- minister any harmful drugs. I will do all in my power to elevate the standard of my profession, and will hold in conji- dence all personal matters committed to my keeping, and all family ajfairs coming to my knowledge in the practice of my calling. Pfith loyalty will I endeavor to aid the physician in his work and devote mysebf to the weUare of those committed to my care. 8