74 THE ALUMNI JOURNAL 



Tlic eiglUli is 



Noah Minkin, with io55;/4 marks nr 87.9(8 per cent. 

 The ninth is 



Ernst F. A. Bottcher, with 103914 niarks or 86.60 per cent. 

 The tenth is 



Benn Windt, with 1038 marks or 86.50 per cent. 

 The eleventh is 



Solomon Branower, with 1033 marks or 86.05 P^^ cent. 

 The twelfth is 



John A. Steffens, with 1031^ marks or 85.95 P^*" cent. 

 The thirteenth on the list is 



Jacob Bitrstan, with 1027 marks or 85.58 per cent. 



It becomes a matter of record, ladies and gentleman, that the dif- 

 ference between the first and the last amounts to 893^ marks, as 

 compared with 90 marks last year and 127 of the previous year. The 

 highest number of marks, 11 16 as compared with the 11 15 last year 

 shows that the scholarship right through has somewhat advanced. 

 Between the two leaders, the Tow Brothers, there is a difference 

 of twelve points. Mr. Siegfried Tow has earned 93.04 per cent, this 

 year. Last year, when he was first man on the Roll of Honor, he 

 earned 93 per cent. His brother, Nicholas Tow, has earned 92.06 

 as against 92.92 per cent, last year, and Mr. Leon J. Lindsley has 

 also improved his standing, having been fourth man on the Roll of 

 Honor last year with the percentage of 90.17, when to-day he claims 

 90.58 per cent. Mr. George I. Branower was eighth man on the Roll 

 of Honor in the Junior Year; to-day the fifth. After Mr. Branower, 

 the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth are students we did not 

 have on the Roll of Honor last year. They evidently have made a 

 flank movement and pushed some of the others off. 



They are : 



Mr. Bean, Mr. Etler, Mr. Minkin, Mr. Bottcher and Mr. Windt. 



Now, the thirteen before you are truly exceptional young men. 

 In this large graduating class they are the best, the fittest among 

 the fit. While it is true that all of these students who graduate to- 

 night had to be attentive to their studies, these thirteen were at- 

 tention personified. As others were earnest and diligent, they 

 studied with zeal and devotion, when everyone persevered, they 

 never tired. And if you were to inquire of them to what particular 

 cause more than any other, they attribute their success, I have no 

 doubt as to their answer. For, remember, to them success is syn- 

 onymous with, and means hard work. The College is proud of its 

 Honor Men. It sends them out, — so many potent factors for the 

 good — to be useful, to apply the knowledge which they have so well 

 made their own ; to become the types of informed and progressive 

 pharmacists. The Faculty, knowing their true worth, looks upon 

 them with confidence and expectation that they will in the future 



