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to New York, great New York, for guidance and for leadership. 

 Therefore, it is easy for New York to guide and to lead. It is the 

 New York College, your college of pharmacy, that has the greatest 

 opportunity to be at the front and set the example for this entire 

 country, in pharmaceutical education ; to fix and maintain that style 

 and form of education which is best suited to the demands of the 

 pharmacy of to-day. I call your particular attention to this and to the 

 fact that opportunities quickly flit ; to the thought that it may not be 

 long before your 'windy' rival of the Great Lakes may claim those 

 opportunities that are now yours as its own. 



'Open now the door ! 

 You know how little while we have to stay 

 And, once departed, may return no more.' 

 "A sentiment of Omar, which might have been the inspiration of 

 Ingall's poem beginning: 



'Master of human destinies am I.' 

 "If I am able to force upon you a realization of your far-reaching 

 opportunities, I can, I think, easily place the grave responsibilities 

 upon you that inevitably follow offered opportunities. It is for you, 

 the children of your beloved mother, to put yourselves and your col- 

 lege so persistently before the people of New York and, especially, 

 the wholesale and retail drug trade of New York, that all may see its 

 accomplishments and know its needs, and thus, seeing and knowing, 

 will meet and supply its wants, that it may shine out as a beacon, a 

 leading light to all the world. I am reminded of an old Confederate 

 soldier, who had fought, for years, against great odds, who, one day. 

 in the midst of great battle and strife, with shot and shell flvin^ and 

 falling around him, saw a rabbit rapidly running from him, when he 

 good naturedly, exclaimed : 'Run. little cotton-tail, run ! I would run 

 too, if I had no more responsibility than you.' But you, my friends, 

 can not run away from these responsibilities ; you must make vour 

 college just what it should be or take the consequences that will surely 

 follow somewhere or somehow. 



'And not a drop that from our cups we throw. 

 For earth to drink of, but may steal below 

 To quench the fire of angoiish in some eye 

 There hidden, far beneath, and long ago.' 



"Let me tell you that you can not ignore or escape your responsi- 

 bilities. Reason as you may, philosophize as you are inclined, devise 



