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will be the pharmacists of tomorrow and we shall need their help and cooperation 

 for the benefit of Pharmacy. And may I not be permitted at this time to draw 

 attention to the great necessity of harmony and organization within our ranks, for 

 with:)ut this we can accomplish practically nothing; without these, the pharmacist 

 will never be accorded tlie position and rank in the community to which he is 

 justly entitled. An illustration of this is the effort, so far without tangible result, 

 of obtaining rank for at least a number of pharmacists in the U. S. Army. I am 

 fullv convinced that if the 50,000 or more pharmacists of this country were prop- 

 erly oiganized and were of one mind, recognition would be accorded them. 



! desire to sincerely congratulate those members of the Class of 1919 who 

 have successfully passed all examinations and who will begin the last year of 

 their work leading to the degree of Ph.G. very soon. I would likewise just as 

 sincerely congratulate those members of the class who still have one or more con- 

 ditions to make up for the determination they are showing and the efforts they 

 are already beginning to make to remove these conditions in the Fall Examination. 

 All of them will be the better fitted to continue and to bring their studies to a suc- 

 cessful termination, because of this additional work. I am telling you this be- 

 cause I have interviewed many of these students and as I have before told you 

 they possess the proper class spirit and a determination to succeed. I expect 

 nothing less from them than that they will succeed. 



And now I come to that part of my address in which I am going to tell you 

 of something which makes me feel more proud of the membership of the Class 

 of 1919. as a whole, and of the individual members to which it applies, than any- 

 thing to which I have heretofore referred, and that is the fact that over forty 

 members of the Class are now in Government service, either serving in the United 

 States Army or Navy or one of their divisions. Over forty members of the class 

 including its president have left their work in the classroom and laboratory, left 

 behind "them all ties of home, all ties of friendship, so that they might serve our 

 country and so that you and I may continue to live in a peaceful and orderly 

 manner. I honor them, I am proud of them. Each one of this number is 

 represented by one of the many stars which collectively make up the figure which 

 you will see upon the service flag of our College, which is now being displayed for 

 the first time, and which is a gift of Mr. Max Breitenbach, an alumnus of the 

 College, and a graduate of the Class of 1877. and whose interest in the affairs of 

 the student body and the graduate body, is unfailing and untiring. 



Our service flag as you will note shows the figure 175, thus telling to the 

 world that, at least as far as we know, many of our boys are in service. Besides 

 the men of the Class of 1919 in service, there are the men of the Class of 19 18, 

 who. had they remained at their work and studies, would undoubtedly have been 

 declared eligible to receive the degree of Graduate in Pharmacy. And then there 

 are the others, members of previous classes, and members of the- Faculty, who 

 slso have added their quota to make up the number 175. Two members of the 

 Faculty felt that they should respond to the call of their country and left their 

 posts to render service in other directions. One of these, Brooke J. Davis, Ph.G., 



