Was Goldsmith a Physician?

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Sydney, Australia, June 29, 1896. <h3>To the Editor:</h3> —In your issue of May 16, Dr. John Morris publishes an extremely interesting and scholarly article under the above heading. There is great doubt concerning the dates of the various incidents in Goldsmith's life, and as I may be able to throw some light upon the matter, I send you a few remarks on the subject of the poet's life in Trinity College, Dublin. Dr. Morris states that Goldsmith was born at Pallas, or Pallasmore, in 1728, that he entered Trinity College in 1745, and took his degree of B.A. in 1750. John Forster, in his "Life and Times of Goldsmith," gives these dates also, but they are not in agreement with the records of Trinity College. The Rev. Dr. Stubbs, in his "History of the University of Dublin," published in 1889, gives in an appendix, some university records of well-known members