American College of Surgeons - Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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12 American College of Surgeons Sir WiUiam Thorburn, K.B.E., C.B. A. H. Tubby, C.B., C.M.G. H. Wade, C.M.G., D.S.O. Sir Cuthbert Wallace, K.C.M.G., C.B. Sir Charles Gordon Watson, K.B.E., C.M.G. A. Webb- Johnson, C.B.E., D.S.O. Sir W. de C. Wheeler Presentation and Acceptance of the Great Mace The ceremony of presenting the Great Mace to the American College of Surgeons was an occasion of deep interest to the Fellows who were in attendance at the initial meeting of the tenth annual session of the Clinical Congress, held in Montreal. The Presentation Committee consisted of Sir Berkeley Moyni- han, K.C.M.G., C.B., of Leeds, Sir William Taylor, K.B.E., of Dublin, and Dr. Albert Carless, C.B.E., of London. In making the presentation. Sir Berkeley Moynihan, Chairman of the Com- mittee, said: Three centuries ago, on this very day, a little sailing vessel, leaving England far behind her, was struggling against adverse winds and heavy seas towards America. On board were one hundred pilgrims fleeing from civil and religious tyranny to seek sanctuary and freedom in a new land. No voyage in history has been so fateful. Those who journeyed in that vessel, a chosen company on the horizon of your history, were the best of English stock. They helped to found here a small colony of people, grim and stoical in spirit, yet touched with idealism. Though all the great countries of the earth have since given of their best to build this Nation, those few pilgrims have left their indelible stamp upon the culture, the institutions, and the laws of this land. Almost a century and a half ago that Colony broke away from the Mother Country with which it was long at war. But one hundred years of peace between the two nations had been cele- brated when in 191 7 they stood together in arms. War is the great Revealer. We learned in that great testing time of our race that ties of blood, when they mean kinship in spirit and an equal surrender to the noblest impulse, are never to be broken. In the

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Presentation, of Great Mace ii Charles C. Choyce, C.M.G., C.B.E. Sir Kennedy Dalziel R. Davies-Colley, C.M.G. T. P. Dunhill, C.M.G. J. M. Elder, C.M.G. Sir Crisp English, K.C.M.G. H. A. Fairbank, D.S.O. C. H. S. Frankau, C.B.E., D.S.O. Forbes Eraser, C.B.E. Sir Peter Freyer, K.C.B. A. Fullerton, C.B., C.M.G. George Cask, C.M.G., D.S.O. Sir Henry Gray, K.B.E., C.B. Sir Robert Jones, K.B.E., C.B., D.S.M. (U.S.A.) R. E. Kelly, C.B. Sir Arbuthnot Lane, Bart., C.B. Sir William Lister, K.C.M.G. V. Warren Low, C.B. Sir George Makins, G.C.M.G., C.B. Sir Arthur Mayo-Robson, K.B.E., C.B., C.V.O. A. B. Mitchell, O.B.E. Sir Berkeley Moynihan, K.C.M.G., C.B. Sir Thomas Myles, C.B. T. H. Openshaw, C.B., C.M.G. Colonel A. Pilcher, C.B., D.S.O. Owen Richards, C.M.G., D.S.O. Sir Hugh Rigby, K.C.V.O. Percy Sargent, C.B., D.S.O. James Sherren, C.B.E. Thomas Sinclair, C.B. Maynard Smith, C.B. Sir Harold Stiles, K.B.E. James Swain, C.B., C.B.E. Sir Charters Symonds, K.B.E., C.B. Sir WiUiam Taylor, K.B.E. Sir John Lynn-Thomas, K.B.E., C.B. Alexis Thomson, C.M.G.

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Presentation of Great Mace 13 Great War America and the Empire mingled their blood upon the same stricken field. The hope then grew strong in many hearts that a new understanding born of comradeship in battle, fiercely tested in the furnace of affliction, and sealed in death, would redeem the ancient blunders, blot out the bitter memories of wrong, and lead at last to a supreme and permanent reconciUation. For we seemed then to realize that deep down in the hearts, enthroned in the conscience of the two peoples there was the same full eager devotion to eternal principle, love of justice, joy in liberty, hatred of oppression; the same unselfish determination to strive for the redemption of mankind and to estabUsh anew the freedom of the world. On the fields of Flanders and of France, as in the cabin of the Mayflower, humanity recovered its rights. In the grave and anxious days of war when we fought so long in fellowship, no associations were closer, no friendship more swift and intimate, no joint labors more fruitful than those of the mem- bers of our profession coming from America and from every part of the British Empire. We then gained each for the other, not respect and sympathy alone; but true affection also. Every lover of his country, every lover of humanity, must wish that the spiritual alliance then created shall endure to the end of time. In our desire to perpetuate the remembrance of those days of duty done together, we, the Consultant Surgeons of the Armies of Britain, ask the American College of Surgeons, meeting in this great Dominion, to accept this Mace. We pray that you may regard it as a symbol of our union in the harsh days of trial; as a pledge of our devotion to the same imperishable ideals; as a witness to our unfaltering and unchanging hope that the members of our pro- fession in the two lands shall be joined in brotherhood forever in the service of mankind. The President of the Coflege, Dr. George E. Armstrong of Montreal, responding, said: Sir Berkeley Moynihan, as President of the American College of Surgeons I accept this beautiful Mace, presented by you on behalf of the Consulting Surgeons of the British Armies, with thanks and a full appreciation of the care and thought bestowed upon its design and construction. We accept it as a