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Oh, those awful Botany quizzes. What earthly crime did an 

 innocent little flower commit to be called a Monoeciously polyga- 

 mous dichlamideous cruciferous eleudosepalous Hermaphrodite? 



An appropriate name: Dope sheets for Dose sheets. 



If you are handed a lemon, do what the College did: Preserve it 

 in Alcohol (see prize lemon in Museum). 



Said the sweet young thing to the drug clerk: Please paste this 

 stamp on the letter upside down? Why, said he. Well you see 

 I am a pupil in a correspondence school, and that is our "College- 

 yell." 



Question : How can I land a high mark in the final exams in 

 chemistry? 



Answer: Stand behind a mule, hit him a heavy blow with 'your 

 Sadler and Coblentz Chemistry and you»will land to a higher mark 

 than you ever dreamed of, and we believe it will be your final mark 

 besides. 



Muscat thinks that 500 cc. is equal to 500 liters. Any one who 

 will enlighten him as to his error, will earn the everlasting grati- 

 tude of the school. 



The Orchestra and Glee Club died a natural death. The funeral 

 was attended by only one mourner. It was F. M. Sack, the 

 leader. 



Quite a few of our students were absent during the week of 

 Jan. 15-19. The reason being Regent's Exams. How they 

 succeeded could plainly be seen when they came back by the 

 length of their faces and facial expression. 



The basketball team was getting along nicely until the manager 

 learned the cost of locker per man, upon which the whole scheme 

 silently collapsed and has not been heard from since. 



Kramer wished to know if Windt told a joke, would Retzlaff? 

 "What shall we do to him. boys?" 



PHARMACEUTICAL PROBLEMS. 



A. Percentage Problems. 



IJ. Solution of Potassium Iodide, 5% % II 



How much Potassium Iodide and how much water must 

 be used ? 

 Since all ordinary pharmaceutical percentage calculations are 

 based upon weight percentage, it is necessary to know the weight 

 of the two fluid ounces of finished solution, before we can calcu- 

 late the exact amount of salt to be used. But, since w r e do not 

 know the Specific Gravity of the solution, we have no means of 

 getting at this weight. It becomes, therefore, necessary to make 



