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would see that great city, and I say that the graduate who goes out 

 into the world with a questioning mind, who wants to know, who, 

 if you want to use a vulgarism which comes from that Western 

 city, "Will you please show me, 1 want to know about everything 

 in life," then I say, he will be more successful. 



You know there is a common practice among people of the pres- 

 ent day, which was started by a very distinguished gentleman, who 

 is making quite a reputation as a photographer, who wanted all 

 that he said to appear in print. Some of the press association, feel- 

 ing that it would cost too much to telegraph them, sent the speeches 

 in advance to the papers, with the instructions to follow by tele- 

 graph ; that when the speech was made the telegram was to say "Re- 

 lease it," although it was already all put up in type. Now, for those 

 of you who think this is an impromptu speech, I will say that I hkd 

 it all written out, and that there is now a copy in my pocket for any 

 reporter who might wish it, although it is far removed from what 

 I am actually saying. I brought along a number of samples of 

 things, which I once used in the University of Buffalo in speaking 

 of something of this kind before the College of Pharmacy there, 

 but after hearing the President say, v^hat he had to say, about 

 Pharmacy as a science and profession, I decided I would not show 

 the samples because they were not very close to a science or pro- 

 fession, and yet they dealt with things that everyone of these men 

 and women will have to meet in actual life. They deal with the 

 business of Pharmacy. You know that a famous Catholic once said 

 "Give me the first seven years of a child's life, and I do not care 

 who has the rest." Now you have had the first few years of these 

 scholars, and we business men will take all the rest of their years. 

 You are going out into a world, in which it takes a stout heart to win 

 a place. If you think that in this world, where there are great com- 

 binations of men and many against you, that what you have done 

 is hard, then you are much mistaken, because what you have to do 

 in the future, is many times harder than what you have done in 

 the past. Heretofore you have had a book to follow. Heretofore, 

 you have had a Professor to lead you. Now you are going out into 

 what to you will be a great unknown, and you will have to cut out 

 your own trail through the forest. It depends upon you, whether 

 you remain clerk or become proprietor, and let me say that as a 

 future officer to some 16,000 retail druggists in the United States, 

 who have written to me stories of their businesses, and part of 



