08 THE ALUMNI JOURNAL 



No. 12 with 82.25 per cent., or 987 points, is Mr. Arthur V. Halper. 



No. 13 with 981 points or 81.75 per cent., is Mr. Stacy B. Ganow. 



The fact that these gentlemen have won places on the Honor Roll 

 indicates that they have learned how to work. To you pharmacists, 

 encompassed as you are by stress of commercialism, two years of 

 scientific discipline are of incalculable benefit. 



You men of the Honor Roll are to be felicitated upon your op- 

 portunities and on the way in which you made use of them. You are 

 to be congratulated that you start out at this time with merit in the 

 theoretical and technical knowledge of your profession and of you we 

 have a right to expect, as your future contribution to pharmacy and 

 the allied sciences, great things, to justify this College in singling you 

 out as her most perfect students of the year. 



Dr. Schieffelin : As it is so late, I am going to ask the orchestra 

 to play the Sextette from "Lucia" next time, and we will proceed to 

 the awarding of the Trustees' Special prizes by Professor H. H. 

 Rusby. 



Dr. Rusby : Ladies and Gentlemen : The New York College of 

 Pharmacy has always taken a practical view of its work. Our Col- 

 lege was not organized by a set of enthusiastic believers in education 

 in a general way. It was organized by the working apothecaries of 

 New York City and vicinity eighty-three years ago for the reason that 

 they wished to have clerks who were more competent to do the work 

 and who could do it with greater safety than those which they had 

 been able to employ, and from that time to the present, our College 

 has persisted in doing everything in the most practical way possible. 

 I do not mean by this that we exclude the theoretical. We believe 

 that the highest consideration is the building up of the character of 

 the men and women who attend the College. We feel that everything 

 else is insignificant besides that. We give our men theoretical in- 

 struction, but with all this we keep steadily in mind that these men 

 must be trained to put into use the knowledge thus gained. Some 

 years ago, the Board of Trustees — I think it was our good old friend 

 Thomas P. Cook who originated the idea — concluded that it would be 

 a good thing to ofifer three special prizes of $100 each to be given to 

 the students who showed the best practical knowledge in some one of 

 the three departments of learning — Chemistry, Pharmacy and Materia 

 Medica. 



