me almost the freshness of scenes just passed. They are but as yesterday a little dimmed.

It is no part of my present purpose however to entertain you with a history of this College. You have already listened to that when my old friend and office associate Dr. Delafield addressed you so eloquently on the occasion of the opening of the new building in 1856. I regret that his address did not receive a more permanent and appropriate existence than that afforded by the pages of a periodical perpetuating but a portion of it. It deserved a place in the library of every graduate at least-and I hope that even yet the Doctor may be induced to place the Alumni, and the profession generally, under further obligations by re-printing it, enlarged and amended as his thorough acquaintance with the subject would enable him to do. The late changes entered into with Columbia College would almost seem to require it.

When, fifty years ago save one, I came to this city to study medicine, I was directed to the "New Institution," and there I attended my first course of medical lectures with Romeyne, and Seaman, and Cock, and Griscom, and Bruce, as instructors. The next year I matriculated

in this College. Before this, a building in Barclay Street had been procured, and rooms commodious enough for a beginning were fitted up for a class of about 70 students. There was at that time, certainly, nothing either attractive or imposing in the outward appearance of “our Alma Mater." Convenience and economy alone seemed to guide those whose duty it was to select the place, and arrange the few apartments needed. At that time the population of the city amounted to less than 90,000. Our country was every where depressed, and all her business interests prostrated. We were asserting our national rights and contending for them in a protracted war with England. Almost every avenue to prosperity seemed blocked up, but none more effectually than our commerce, and no other interest could so sensibly affect this city. The shipping for the most part, except coasters and river craft, lay moored and housed in the slips and silent ship-yards. It was a melancholy sight, "all faces turned into paleness" and "men's hearts failing them for fear." There was one spot, however, where the sunlight of enterprise seemed to shine, and that was on the new Medical College in Barclay Street.

The faculty, with that master spirit of energy, industry, and indomitable perseverance, Dr. David Hosack as an impelling power, at last surmounted every difficulty, and accomplished their grand design; and notwithstanding at times the prospect looked gloomy, and very many were ready to predict a failure, they listened to nothing but success. Revolutionary patriotism had then many a survivor. Their deeds of selfdenial and of dauntless daring were fresh upon the memory, and often upon the tongue. These Medical Patriots did not intend to be outdone by their national predecessors. Onward and upward was their stirring motto, and it was a thousand times re-echoed by those possessing true hearts and active hands. Inasmuch as no good and great enterprise has ever proved successful without the blessing of Him on whe we are all dependent, as well in as in our associated capacity. reason to conclude that among th of this noble enterprise there we sincerely implored that must be so. Prayer is t and many such were, an among the friends of this

At length they had the satisfaction of finding their efforts so completely crowned with success that they were compelled to enlarge the boundaries of their habitation. The building was reconstructed, new rooms were added, improvements introduced and greater facilities afforded for a more extended course of medical training.

A full half century has rolled around, and where is our Alma Mater now? not in Barclay street, no, no. The merchant princes have obtained possession there. The hall of science is exchanged for the mart of merchandize. The library and dissecting room, for the ledger and the counting room, and the professors chairs are displaced by the tables of the money changers. How is this? What has brought about this mighty change? Some powerful controlling influence must have been set in motion to produce such a result. Let us examine and see what it is.

The desolating war, of which mention has

ade, was succeeded by an honorable fidence between nations and indistored, and once more prosperity v breeze. The spirit of comhty monarch began to speak 1, and addressing, as it were,