84 THE ALUMNI JOURNAL 



Dr. Chandler: The Trustees' Special Prizes will now be awarded 

 by Professor Diekman. 



Dr. Diekman: Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: First of 

 all, I want to say of the Graduating Class of 1909, that part of Mr. 

 Gould's advice has already borne fruit. There is not one of them 

 who does not want to know who is to receive the $100 prizes. 



It becomes my pleasure and my privilege to award the Trustees' 

 Prizes to such members of the Graduating Class of 1909, who, as a 

 result of the recent special examinations, have been found entitled 

 to receive them. The prizes are three in number, each of $100, and 

 were first awarded in the year 1891. One prize each is awarded 

 in the Departments of Practical Pharmacy, Practical Chemistry and 

 Materia Medica and Pharmacognosy. 



These prizes were first competed for at the close of the Senior 

 Course, by those students who, at the regular examinations, ob- 

 tained a position on the Roll of Honor. Since the year 1895, in ad 

 dition to the Honor Roll, all such students as have shown marked 

 proficiency of a practical character, in one or more departments, are 

 permitted to compete in this examination. Each recipient of a prize 

 also receives a certificate, signed by the Professor in charge of the 

 Department, and duly attested by the Secretary of the College, stat- 

 ing the honor for which the prize is awarded. The examinations to 

 which these students are subjected are of a most searching and far 

 reaching character, and to have successfully competed with the 

 best students of the class, is an honor indeed, and an evidence of 

 advanced scholarship. While the Faculty usually is inclined to be 

 somewhat lenient in their rating of answers given by students, in 

 these cases the rating is done with the utmost severity. On oc- 

 casion of the present examinations, there competed, besides the 

 Honor Roll students, one other student in the Department of Prac- 

 tical Pharmacy, two other students in the Department of Practical 

 Chemistry and five other students in the Department of Materia 

 Medica and Pharmacognosy, and the examinations were conducted, if 

 such a thing is possible, even more rigidly and severely than heretofore 

 As the result of these examinations, it is my great pleasure to an- 

 nounce that in the Department of Practical Chemistry, Mr. George 

 I. Branower is awarded the prize. Now I am going to spring a sur- 

 prise on you : In the Department of Practical Pharmacy, the prize 

 is awarded to Mr. Nicholas Tow, and now, so as not to separate 



