THE ALUMNI JOURNAL 99 



The ladies and gentlemen who are permitted to compete for these 

 prizes are those whose names have been n])on the Honor Roll and 

 any others who show special proficiency in any one department of 

 work. After all the other examinations are over, these students are 

 invited to a special examination of great difficulty ; of great difficulty 

 because they are required not only to tell what they know, but to show 

 whether they have good judgment. This is a common sense examina- 

 tion to which must be applied the use of a high degree of knowledge. 

 That these gentlemen possess this knowledge is demonstrated by the 

 fact that they have secured a place on the Honor Roll. 



I intended to tell you of some of the questions that were put to 

 these students, but the hour is so late, and I will simply say that they 

 have been required to make chemical analyses, to identify plants ; they 

 have been required to put up difficult prescriptions; they have been 

 required to take drugs in the condition of the finest powder — as fine 

 as the wheat flour you use in your kitchen — to tell what drug it was 

 and whether it was adulterated or not. They have been required to 

 show their knowledge of toxicology; to know what dose could be 

 given with safety and the smallest dose which would be likely to kill, 

 and I can assure you that when gentlemen have passed through such 

 an examination and have obtained ratings up in the 8o's and 90's, 

 they must know a great deal. 



It is my pleasure this evening to ask the following gentlemen to 

 come to the front of the platform and receive a $100 gold certificate. 

 The successful man in the Department of Chemistry is Mr. Jacob 

 Henry Wiener; in the Department of Pharmacy, the successful man 

 is Mr. Orrin O. Bigelow and in the Department of Materia Medica. 

 which I have the honor of teaching in association with Professor 

 Mansfield, Mr. Maurice Zuparn. 



Gentlemen, in handing you this cash. I should simply like to tell 

 you that cash is a good thing to have, and plenty of it. but I would 

 direct your attention to the thoughts conveyed in that fine address of 

 Professor Carpenter that money — he did not say it in these words, 

 but this is what he meant — that money is only a means for reaching 

 things -of greater value. When you arc spending this money, I hope 

 you will do so wisely and well. It is true that with every act you perform 

 you change the entire world for good or for evil, and please remem- 

 ber my favorite motto that the measure of a man's success in life is 

 the degree of influence for good whicli he exerts. 



Sextette from "Lucia" Donizetti 



