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Mr. !\r. P. Gould: Members of the Faculty, Members of the 

 Senior Class and their relatives, and those who by their hand- 

 clapping have shown that they would like to be relatives. 



When Mr. Ebbitt asked me to make these few remarks, I asked 

 him how long he wanted me to speak, and in reply, he told me a 

 story. He said that Sam Jones v/as once invited to deliver the 

 graduating address to some theologians and the most important 

 thing that he said was this: '"If you don't strike pay-oil in twenty 

 minutes, stop boring." (Laughter.) Being a plain business man, 

 I could not figure out what he meant, so I asked him to explain and 

 he told me another very old one. He said that a wag once asked 

 President Lincoln how long a man's legs ought to be. President 

 Lincoln replied : "Long enough to reach the ground." While I am 

 making these few remarks, I am going to give you a privilege. I 

 once saw something happen, when Professor Ladd was giving an 

 address to students, who were compelled to listen to it. Professor 

 Ladd is the great Physiologist of the world, though not a popular 

 entertainer. He was trying out both sides of some mighty physi- 

 ological question before a class of theogs, and when he had about 

 reached the middle, most of the boys were pleasantly reclining on 

 one side, like this (indicates). Stopping in the middle of it, he 

 said "Now turn to the other side." They all with one accord turned. 

 I am going to watch this audience very carefully to-night, and if 

 I see any turning, I will sit down. 



I have been trying to conjure up in my brain, why I was invited 

 to deliver an address to this class, which seems to have most every- 

 thing in Tow. I am not a pharmacist, or the son of a pharmacist, 

 and yet there is a tendency in modern business life, to put those, 

 who do not know anything about the technicalities of a business, 

 at the head of that business; for example, Jndge Gary, the actual 

 head of the steel trust, knows nothing about the manufacture of 

 steel. He is there at the head of that greatest business organiza- 

 tion, because he knows :men and knows the organization of men, 

 and I suppose that they have asked me to say a few words to the 

 Senior Class, not because I am within one million miles of Judge 

 Gary's class, Imt because probably, through these years of profes- 

 sional training, thc}^ have been trying to teach these brilliant 

 scholars, that the world is before them, and now they want me to 

 let them down easy for to-morrow morning. (Laughter.) 



