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the State of New York, to the graduate who ranks highest in 

 the practical or laboratory work, of the Senior year. 



The award is made for the first time this year, and will here- 

 after be offered annually to the student ranking highest in prac- 

 tical work, and is open to competition for all. 



The Italian Pharmaceutical Association, which offers this prize, 

 consists of a number of licensed pharmacists, whose aim it is to 

 stimulate study and research in the field of Pharmacy, and to raise 

 the standard of educational and professional qualifications among 

 the Italian students of Pharmacy at this College and elsewhere. 



Our Italian brethren have much to be proud of. In Art, Music. 

 Literature and the Sciences, the Italian occupies a position in the 

 foremost rank. The names of Galileo Galilei, Stanislao Cannizaro, 

 Alessandro Volta, Francesco Duranto, Guido Baccelli, Cesare 

 Lombroso, Guareschi, Gughelmo Marconi, Pacini, Valsaleva, 

 Goivanni Battista, Morgagni, and many others are famed for their 

 splendid achievements in the civilized world over. Who has 

 not heard of Dr. Maria Montessori and her book on "Pedagogia 

 Scientifica," as applied to children, which has been translated into 

 English. Lectures on the Montessori method of educating chil- 

 dren have been given during the past winter at St. Michael's 

 School in Xew York City and at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.' 



As far as the scholarship of the Italians who are taking up the 

 study of Pharmacy at our College is concerned, this is very 

 satisfactory. During the past five years no less than 50 students 

 of Italian parentage or descent, have graduated from our Col- 

 lege, and are now successfully engaged in the practice of Phar- 

 macy in this City and vicinity. The fact that no less than 5 

 Italian students gained positions on the Senior Roll of Honor, 

 namely, Messrs. George and Eugene Calvelli, brothers; Pasqual 

 Guerrieri. Antonio O. Mattia and Attilio Robertiello, bears suf- 

 ficient evidence of the type of Italian students who are following 

 the profession of Pharmacy. The success achieved by the Italian 

 student of Pharmacy is often against considerable odds, such as 

 the inability to express their ideas in English. I know of one 

 instance where the student, especially in his Junior vear, was 

 only enabled to follow his studies by means of a dictionary, but 

 he still, in spite of this great handicap, successfullv completed his 

 w< >rk. 



