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Blumni journal 



Published monthly in the Interest of the Alumni Association of the College 



of Pharmacy of the City of New York. 



Pharmaceutical Department of Columbia University. 



PUBLISHED AT 43 FULTON ST., NEW YORK CITY. 



C. p. WIMMER, Phar.D., A.M., Editor 



Vol. XX. JULY, 1913. No. 7. 



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Address all Editorial Communications to Dr. Curt P. Wimmer, 115 West 68th 

 Street, New York City. Address all Business Communications to Chas. A. Lotz, 

 1530 74th Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



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preceding publication. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE EIGHTY- THIRD ANNUAL COM- 

 MENCEMENT OF THE COLLEGE OF PHARMACY 

 OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. 

 i^Contimied.) 



And now I should like to come down from the general to the par- 

 ticular, as they state it in logic, and to say what I have still to say 

 along lines that are more closely those of the present time and the 

 present place. You, the men and women of the graduating class, 

 are to-day entering the great world over the threshold of an import- 

 ant profession and the cjuestion must inevitably come to each one of 

 you who thinks at all seriously at one of the memorable stages of 

 life of how you, an individual, are to fit into and to face the great 

 crowd of other individuals who are hastening along and arc throng- 

 ing its thoroughfares. In some way or other you have got to take an 

 attitude toward it ; to shape yourselves either in accord or discord 

 with it ; to accept it or to oppose it — and what your attitude is will 

 be the determinant factor in your own solution of the great problem 

 of your own individual life. And first and foremost it is a problem 

 that you will have to solve yourselves. Nobody can do it for you, 

 and even if that were possible, nobody should do it for you. One's 

 early years are necessarily safeguarded and one's feet are placed at 

 the beginning in the path that the experience of others has cleared, 



