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of you realize what constitutes a pharmaceutical education and I am 

 going to tell you in a few words what these young men and these 

 young ladies have successfully done during the past two years. I have 

 no doubt I shall draw out a great deal of sympathy when I tell you 

 what they have had to go through in order to earn this degree. When 

 they were juniors they attended lectures and recitations in Pharmacy, 

 general Chemistry, Physiology, Physics, and Botany. They also did 

 laboratory work in Pharmacy, Dispensing Pharmacy, Chemistry and 

 Pharmacognosy. Now that represents a great variety of work, all of 

 which was new to the Junior class, as they were not required to pur- 

 sue any of these subjects before they came here. Having gone suc- 

 cessfully through that great variety of instruction, they entered the 

 Senior class and here is the program of what they have solved during 

 that year : Lectures and recitations in Organic Chemistry and Phar- 

 maceutical Chemistry ; there was a laboratory course in Analytical 

 Chemistry ; there were lectures and recitations in Pharmacy, as well 

 as a laboratory course in that subject ; and there were laboratory 

 courses in Dispensing Pharmacy and Microscopy. 



Now all those subjects are considered essential to the proper edu- 

 cation of the pharmacist and no student is allowed to graduate from 

 this College who does not pursue each and every one of these sub- 

 jects satisfactorily and pass successfully all the examinations, so I 

 think I am safe in saying that we are warranted in giving to those 

 ladies and gentlemen the degree of Graduate it: Pharmacy. I want 

 to congratulate you, ladies and gentlemen, on having successfully pur- 

 sued this very severe course of study and completed it. I have been 

 able to say to previous classes how great a pleasure it has been for me 

 to instruct them, and I regret extremely that I cannot make that 

 statement to you. I have missed the pleasure of lecturing to this 

 Senior class in Inorganic Chemistry. It has been one of the greatest 

 pleasures of my life to take part in the work of this College and meet 

 the members of the Senior Class and lecture to them. 



I want you young ladies and gentlemen to realize that your educa- 

 tion is not complete. It has only begun. I may say that you have 

 learned how to learn in these two years and, having acquired that 

 knowledge, you must now apply it for the rest of vour lives. There 

 is so much more to learn. And there is one thing I venture to suggest 

 to you and that is that you must not forget to keep up vour studies. 

 We have a large amount of periodical literature in the art and science 



