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the brothers the prize in the Department of Materia Medica and 

 Pharmacognosy is awarded to Mr. Siegfried Tow. And now. 

 Messrs. Branower, Nicholas and Siegfried Tow, let me present you 

 each with a redistilled, resublimed, chemically pure $ioo Gold Cer- 

 tificate, representing the results of your competitive examination 



In times gone by, before the enactment of higher preliminary 

 and professional requirements before graduation it sometimes be 

 came necessary to subject the results of a given examination to a 

 microscopical test, in order to discover the value of the answers 

 given. In your case, it also became necessary to subject the answers 

 to a microscopic test, for a quite dififerent reason, however, namely, 

 to discover any possible flaw in them. How well you have done the 

 task imposed upon you, I will leave to others to judge, simply say- 

 ing that Mr. Nicholas Tow averaged 92.8%, Mr. Siegfried Tow, 84% 

 and Mr. George I. Branower, 85%. In the name of Board of Trus- 

 tees, the Faculty, your Classmates, and personally, I heartily con- 

 gratulate you. (Applause.) 



"Episode Populaire". Gideon. 



Dr. Chandler: The Valedictory Address will now be given 

 by Mr. John A. Stefifens. 



John A. StefTens : Mr. President, Members of the Board of Trus- 

 tees, and Friends : 



We are gathered to-night as the Graduating Class of 1909. Our 

 class is but one of a series that stretches back to the very founding 

 of our College of Pharmacy. We cannot say to-night that our 

 class stands pre-eminent among all others, yet, we do realize that 

 it is for us to strive to attain that position in the years to come. 



You and your predecessors have raised the College to its present 

 dignified position, that is, second to none. You have put energy in- 

 to your silent work and that energy finds its way out as a power 

 for the good. It works its way out through the classes and spreads 

 itself over the whole world. It works and will work strongly 

 through the men of character whom it produces, and whom, we 

 know, it will continue to produce. If the College can but send out 

 one, two or a dozen with each class who shall be men of influence, 

 then will it have had accomplished much. 



