66 ' C. U. C. P. ALUMNI JOURNAL May, 1918 



€idbty°€igbtb Jlnnual Commencement 



The Eighty-eighth Annual Commencement Exercises were held at Carnegie 

 Hall on Thursday evening-. May i6, 1918. The graduating class was conducted 

 down the main aisle by Frederick K. James, Chairman of the Examination Com- 

 mittee of the Board of Trustees. 



After Divine Blessing had been asked by the Reverend Doctor Robert Hugh 

 Morris, Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Stamford, Conn., Professor 

 William Henry Carpenter, Provost of the University, who conducted the exer- 

 cises, introduced President Butler who spoke as follows : 



Mr. Provost, Trustees, Members of the Faculty, those zvho are about to graduate, 

 Ladies and Gentlemen: 



My part this evening is a very simple, yet a very welcome one. The 

 address to the graduates will be delivered in a few moments by a distinguished 

 citizen and orator, and he will bring to you a message suitable to this occasion 

 in your lives and to this moment in the history of the United States. It is for 

 me only to say a few words of greeting and to emphasize, if I may, the significance 

 and the importance of this hour in the lives of these young people who have 

 finished their preliminary training. These graduates are going out as public 

 servants. They have chosen a calling and a profession that is in high degree 

 scientific and that closely relates itself to the health, the happiness and the wel- 

 fare of the people. These graduates are allied to the doctor, to the health 

 officer, to the trained nurse, to the sanitary scientist. They are allies all in making 

 this a better, safer and a healthier world for us to live in. 



The weighing out and the putting together in scientific combination of those 

 small elements which make something that when taken into your body or mine, 

 helps us to resist disease or cure unfavorable symptoms, or increase our comfort — 

 the power, the knowledge and the ability to do that constitute a public service. 

 And these Graduates in Pharmacy are public servants. Their calling is not one 

 that leads to great opportunities of wealth. Their calling is not one that 

 necessarily attracts wide public attention, but their calling is one, without which 

 the life of health and happiness that you and I lead would not be possible. So I 

 want these graduates to realize that while they have been studying the prin- 

 ciples and practice of pharmacy, they have been preparing to serve the public 

 quite as much as though they were chosen to responsible office or as though they 

 had been drawn to serve in the army or navy of the United States. 



There are all kinds of service, my friends : some are spectacular and some 

 modest ; some are richly rewarded and some without great compensation. But 

 this City, this State, this Nation could not dispense with any of that service, 

 and the pride of this College of Pharmacy is that now for wellnigh a hundred 

 years, it has been sending out graduates who are well trained, well tested, and 

 who consider themselves public servants. 



Then, too, these graduates are going out to take up the practical work of 

 life at the most extraordinary moment in all history. They are going out at a 

 time when what one does, what one says, what one is, counts for more, — be it for 



