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that have come to you, and at the same time I warn you that 

 with the honors goes the responsibility of considering this dis- 

 tinction merely a prelude to still greater effort. It has heen 

 cynically remarked that the prize winners are seldom heard from 

 in after life; that the average honor man thereafter considers his 

 life work done and rests upon his oars. But I am glad to say 

 that the record of the prize winners of the New York College of 

 Pharmacy refutes this false philosophy. 



Speaking only of those prize winners of this College, with whom 

 I am personally acquainted, I bid you three gentlemen to follow 

 the example of prize winner Wulling, now Dean of the Col- 

 lege of Pharmacy of the University of Minnesota ; to emulate 

 prize winner Feil, for many years Dean of the Cleveland School 

 of Pharmacy; to consider prize winner May s to whom I call 

 special attention, first as a disproof of the idea that prize winners 

 have to follow academic careers and secondly to remark that 

 his achievement of carrying off the honors of the Class of 1884 

 was followed by the still greater feat of amassing a fortune in 

 retail pharmacy within a brief period of twenty years. 



Lastlv, to allow me to suggest that you follow the example 

 set you during your College career by the five prize winners, 

 now members of the Faculty and with us this evening. Knowing 

 these five gentlemen to be as modest as they are learned, I will 

 omit mention of their names, but cannot let slip the opportunity 

 of remarking that there are few colleges so fortunate as is ours 

 in having so many of her honor men on her Faculty. 



And now, friends, on behalf of the Trustees, permit me to 

 present each of you with a handsome engraving of a pleasant 

 golden hue. I know I voice the sentiment of the generous donors 

 when I tender you their heartiest congratulations and their con- 

 fident hope that the honors that have come to you this evening 

 are but the promise of your victories of the future. 



Popular Melodies T. Snyder 



Dr. Chandler: 



The Italian Pharmaceutical Association Prize will now be awarded 

 by Professor George C. Diekman. 



Dr. Diekman : 



It becomes my pleasant duty this evening to award a gold 

 medal, on behalf of the Italian Pharmaceutical Association of 



