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. 



0. P. WIMMER, Phar.D., A.M., Editor 



Vol. XX. AUGUST, 1913. No. 8. 



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ADVICE TO STUDENTS.* 



It is highly essential that a student be given real advice on his 

 college course. Now that I have traveled the path that many 

 prospective pharmacists will go over, I wish to state that of all the 

 essentials necessary for one to possess to eventually become a 

 successful graduate, the most important is his personal love or 

 feeling for his special profession, whether it be medicine or phar- 

 macy, law, or chemistry, or theology, or engineering. He must 

 feel that he is studying, not with the idea of covering a certain 

 amount of work, not with the idea that he must go to college 

 because his people desire him to — this class of students usually 

 turns out the worst, for they lack this feeling of personal ambition 

 — but he must take up his studies with the thought ever prominent 

 in his mind that he must be inspired with the love, aifection. etc., 

 for the profession. 



Besides having this inspiration, he must possess the al)ility to 

 comprehend and master his work. My advice to all those who 

 contemplate taking up the profession is to study — study — studv 

 hard, conscientiously and, as Shakespeare says, "to thine own self 

 be true." Don't try to imagine that by a little study the subject 

 is easily mastered, for, led on by this false impression, you are only 

 *American Druggist. 



