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Mr. David Becker received 985 points, or 82%. Mr. Gustav Simon 

 received 980 points, or 81.6%; and Mr. Eugene Calvelli received 

 979 points, or 81.5%. 



It is my pleasure to express to you, on behalf of the Faculty, 

 best wishes for your future success in your chosen profession. 



Quartette from Rigoletto Verdi. 



Dr. Chandler: 



The Trustees' Special prize will now be awarded by Professor 

 II . V. Amy. 



Professor Amy : 



Mr. Chairman, Graduating Class, Ladies and Gentlemen — 



The Trustees of the New York College of Pharmacy have as- 

 asigned to me the honor of presenting the three prizes of $100 

 each which they generously have offered to the three students mak- 

 ing the best general average in the three subjects, Practical Phar- 

 macy, Practical Chemistry and Materia Medica and Pharmacog- 

 nosy, respectively. 



I will take the audience into my confidence by saying that I 

 have a profound respect for prize winners, since in my own aca- 

 demic career it was usually my fate to have some more clever 

 class-mate run away with the prize just when I thought I had 

 it in my reach. I can therefore appreciate what it means to be 

 a prize winner. To be the best student in a large class is a marktd 

 achievement, and particularly is this the case when the class is 

 of the calibre of the graduates of 1912. It means great industry, 

 marked mental ability and excellent preliminary training. 



The Trustees' Prizes are not awarded as the result of a single 

 test of ability. They mean excellence in laboratory work through- 

 out the College Course, highe- 1 marks in final examinations and 

 then the dozen attaining these distinctions are given rigorous spe- 

 cial examinations. The report on this searching inquiry is now 

 in my hand, from it I read that the Pharmacy Prize was won 

 by Mr. Robert C. Schleussner; the Materia Medica Prize by Mr. 

 Alexander Finkelstein, and the Chemistry prize by Mr. Herbert 

 C. Oehlers. 



Gentlemen : 



In the name of the Trustees of the Faculty and of the friends of 

 the College, I offer you heartiest congratulations upon the honors 



