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On the 23rd of May, at the College of the City of New York. 

 p rofessor William Mansfield of the Department of Pharmacognosy 

 is to lecture before the Biological Society of that institution. 



Rogers, '11 recently visited the College and reports a very success- 

 ful season at his store in Antwerp. N. Y. Mr. Rogers is now a co- 

 partner with his uncle in this business and we were very much pleased 

 to hear of his success. He intends, during the summer to experiment 

 in the cultivation of drug plants, on one of his father's farms. 



Cassidy, '11. is manager of the Riker Store in Trenton, X. J. 



Warner, '11. is the proprietor of a store in the Bronx, directly op- 

 posite Webb Academy, and has with him Roediger, '11. 



Treat, '11, is with Becker, '11. at Stapletom S. I. 



We have received a letter from Frank Coleman, '11. who has been 

 wintering in California, stating that he is on his way east and in- 

 tends to enter Bellevue next term. He will find his classmates Hermes 

 and Dunn also studying there. 



Some of our present students have been very successful in making 

 the athletic teams at the University. Simon, '12, is on the Track 

 Team, having won second place in the high jump at the dual meet 

 with Syracuse. Deffaa, '12, is on the Swimming Team, and Waters 

 '13, and Milnes. '12, have been kept on the Yarsitv Baseball Squad. 

 They are being tried out as pitchers. 



"BLIZZARD CLASS," N. Y. C. ?. 1888. 



There is at least one class of the Xew York College of Pharmacy 

 which has distinguished itself in pharmacy, namely, the "Blizzard 

 Class," so-called because their examination was held on the day of 

 the blizzard, March 12th, 1888. And every year the "boys" and 

 ■'girls" of '88 hold a class re-union and celebrate the anniversary of 

 their examination and of the blizzard with a banquet. From far and 

 near do they flock together and exchange reminiscences. 



The president of the class, Dr. Reed, comes from Long Branch. 

 X. J. ; Sears, the president of the X. Y. State Pharm. Assoc, from 

 Auburn, X. Y. ; Dr. Miles, from Bridgeport, Conn. ; Guerin, from 

 Morristown, N. J. ; Brown, from Sag Harbor, L. I. ; Keyler, from 

 Bloomfield, X. J. ; Strauss, from Xewark, X. J. ; Frank, from L nion 

 Hill ; Trautmann. from Jersey City Heights ; Bischof, from Bayside, 

 L. I., etc., etc. Xew York City and Brooklyn are. of course, well 

 represented. 



