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Especial mention must be made of the very handsome menues 

 which were duplicates of the 1888 College Prospectus. Several of 

 the members of the Class of 1888 had invited their sons who are now 

 members of the present Junior University Class. All in all, the dinner 

 was a great success and credit is due the Chairman of the Committee. 

 Mr. A. F. Diehl, arid the Secretary-Treasurer, Dr. George C. Diekman, 

 as well as to the other members of the Committee. 



ADDRESS ON BEHALF OF THE FACULTY.* 



By Gen. W. Tecumseh Shekman. 



Ladies and Gentlemen : 



1 fear there has been some mistake made to-night. 1 fear that you 

 will be disappointed, for the Committee had not even informed me 

 that 1 was to make any address, and I would not even believe my own 

 eyes, when, in reading the programme, I saw my name. I thought it 

 a misprint. But Gen. Sherman zvill address you, young gentlemen, 

 although I haven't one word to say ; not a note. I have learned all I 

 know of the College of Pharmacy since I came here this evening. I 

 have never been in the college proper, and have only met you and your 

 honored professors on the platform. So I can not say much ; but you 

 can look abroad on this vast audience, young ladies and gentlemen, and 

 know that they have been drawn here for no other reason than the 

 interest they feel in you personally, and as you are about to enter a 

 profession which commands our respect. Yea ! behold these flowers. 

 There is a language stronger than any words of mine. Read in them 

 the love of mothers, sisters, yes! and of sweethearts, too, I'll bet. And 

 yet the vulgar world outside charges these young men with playing 

 billiards, gambling, etc. / don't believe it. Young gentlemen who win 

 such tributes from sweet ladies can not go far from the path of truth. 



Now! The profession upon which you have entered (for it is a 

 profession, and a good one, too), involves the lives and happiness, not 

 only of ourselves, but of our children and our grandchildren; and who 

 would not deem them more precious, by far, than the work of the man 

 who built the grandest palace in this great City of New York, or 

 modeled the greatest statute in the world. Nothing is more precious 

 than life, and for ages and ages good men, devout soldiers of the truth, 

 have brought out of the stones essences, it may be to smooth the vota- 



*At commencement of Blizzard Class, March 2Stli, 1S88. 



