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good or evil — than has ever happened before. The world today is looking at 

 everyone to see what he is doing ; what his attitude is toward the great question 

 of the moment. Shall this world remain a place in which you and i can live and 

 wish to live, and one that we shall be free to live in? That, my friends, as you 

 know full well — many of you because the call has come to the young men of your 

 own families — that you know full well is the question that is pressing for answer 

 from the free nations oi the world. When 1 look at the distinguished service roll 

 of this College as printed on the program that 1 hold in my hand, I am doubly 

 proud, gentlemen of the trustees, of tue splendid tradition and the ideal that you 

 have given to the College of Pharmacy. The College of Pharmacy did not wait, 

 it did not have to be told, it did not have to be urged, it saw and understood the 

 obligation which rested upon it, its students, its alumni, its officers and teachers 

 each to take his place where he could do best and most for the great cause. 



Oh, my friends, if we should fail to understand, if we should fail to act as 

 duty calls us to understand and to act, this would be a strangely different world 

 and one that we could not understand and one m which oar freedom would be 

 lost. So when I say that these young men and women, well trained in their 

 science and art, are going out as public servants of a great City, of a notable 

 State, of a famous Country at this critical juncture, that means this: It means 

 that first and foremost come the obligations of citizenship in our free America ; 

 before our profession, even before our personal interests, before anything that 

 we can think of, comes the obligation of American citizenship. And as this group 

 of ours shall respond to that demand — and how well they will respond, I am 

 wholly confident- — according as this group of ours responds to that demand, their 

 history will be written by those who come after. 



This is a time when we are of necessity serious minded. It is difficult to say 

 jesting things and light words to a public audience at an hour of this kind. There 

 is too much suffering, too much sorrow ; there is too much sacrifice going on in the 

 world. Our mood is a mood of high seriousness as our training is one of sincere 

 scientific endeavor. So here tonight, we are to link the two. We are to link the 

 results of our scientific study with the serious purpose of citizenship and we are 

 to give our greetings, our words of counsel, our cheers and our prayers to these 

 young people who are going out into this profession that they have chosen, with 

 the blessing and the benediction of the College of Pharmacy of the City of 

 New York. 



I congratulate them one and all upon the opportunities they have enjoyed 

 and upon the use they have made of the opportunities and I congratulate this 

 splendid College that adds this fine company of the youth of New York to its 

 long roll of men and women trained to high purpose and good citizenship. 



Secretary C. W. Holzhauer then presented 120 members of the class and 

 President Butler conferred upon them the degree of Graduate in Pharmacy. The 

 list of graduates is printed on page 75. 



The address to the graduates was delivered by the Hon. Wm. A. Prender- 

 'gast, who said : 



