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ure and quality; no adulterated drugs, no injurious articles. I want 

 vou to use a great many grains of common sense and plenty of scru- 

 ples when you are tempted to do wrong ; no drams, and remember 

 that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Do not be 

 penny-wise and pound foolish. If you follow this advise, when you 

 are weighed in the balance you will not be found wanting. Be good 

 citizens ; take an interest in public affairs, but do not become politi- 

 cians. That is no business for a pharmacist. It means ruin for a 

 professional man. And let the bright colored bottles in your windows 

 serve as guides by day and beacons by night of professional intelli- 

 gence, honor and honesty in the broadest sense. 



And now, in accordance with the power vested in me by the charter 

 of the College of Pharmacy of the City of Xew York and by order 

 of the Board of Trustees I, Charles F. Chandler, Vice-President of 

 said College, do hereby declare you to be Graduates in Pharmacy. 



I will now request Professor Rusby to present the candidates for 

 certificates in Food and Drug Analysis. 



Dr. Rusby :— 



In addition, ladies and gentlemen to those who have just been de- 

 clared graduates of the College of Pharmacy, six other students have 

 successfully completed an important course of study in the College 

 during the past year. These young gentlemen, because on the present 

 occasion they happen to be all men ; last year we had one or two ladies 

 among them — these gentlemen were graduates before entering upc 

 this course of study from which they have just emerged. They were 

 not necessarily graduates of our own school, nor indeed of anv school 

 of pharmacy. All that was required was that they must have been 

 graduates of some institution which should have fitted them for suc- 

 cessfully carrying on the work of this oost-graduate year of study, and 

 these young gentlemen have elected that instead of being pharmacists, 

 they will be Food and Drug Analysts. So they came to our College 

 to spend one year in special preparation for that important w r ork. You 

 all know how very important the work in connection with the Pure 

 Food and Drug Laws — I say laws, because there are State laws and 

 many municipal laws as well as a Federal law — you all know how im- 

 portant that work has become. Take my word for it that it is going 

 to increase in importance. The food and drug work of the Federal 

 • :overnment is, to a very great extent a failure, simply because the 

 States have not supported the Federal Government. The Federal 



