Abstract
In an address delivered at the commencement of the Medical School of Harvard University at the Medical College in Boston, March 9, 1870 the Honorable Preston Peabody 1 spoke to the graduating class; he stressed particularly the importance of general culture: To your professional knowledge you need to add general culture as wide and thorough as your special studies and labors will permit. You owe this to yourselves, to your brethren, to your calling. You owe it to yourselves; for the man who confines himself to a single department, however noble it may be, sacrifices his own intellectual manhood; moves, not in a self-returning circle, but in a constantly diminishing spiral, and from year to year becomes less, and not beautifully less. You have a vital interest in poetry, literature and art—in all that is beautiful and grand in the works of God and man. You need them for recreation,
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