In my belief, nothing with better tend to foster and maintain such a standard amonogst us than the disclosure year by year in this place of the character and works of our immortal Harvey.
To have had him, to be summoned regularly to peer into his great mind, to learn his methods, to be counselled by his wisdom, and to participate in the benefactions he so affectionately designed for us, constitutes indeed a high responsibility of which we must ever feel sensible in this his beloved College.
I have now, lastly, in accordance with Harvey's direction " to exhort the Fellows and Members, for the honour of the profession to continue in mutual love and affection among themselves, without which neither the dignity of the College can be maintained, nor yet particular men receive that benefit by their admission into the College which they might expect, ever remembering that 'Concordia res parvae crescunt, discordia magnae dilabuntur.' "
According to Willis, "every act of Harvey's public life that has come down to us is marked not merely by propriety, but by grace." I venture to think that we in this College are well knit together in mutual regard
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