MEDICINE AND THE UNIVERSITY.
- WILLIAM H. WELCH, M.D., LL.D.
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I believe that I make no mistake in assuming that the honor of the invitation to deliver this address came to me mainly through the official position which I chance to hold in the Association for the Advancement of Science and the desire to give prominence on this occasion to the sciences of nature in view of the approaching meeting of the association in this place. I must, however, disclaim any especial competence to speak for these sciences, and I know not where there is less need in our country of emphasizing the importance and significance of the natural and physical sciences, or where the representatives of these sciences have brought higher distinction to themselves and to their university, than here in the University of Chicago.
The past century is memorable above all others for the gigantic progress of the natural and physical sciences—a progress which has influenced more profoundly
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An address delivered at the convocation exercises of the University of Chicago, Dec. 17, 1007.
