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Blumni 3^ournal 



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. 



CHAS. A. LOTZ, Ph.G., Editor CURT. P. WIMMER, Phar.D., Associate Editor 

 W. B. SIMPSON, Editor College Notes 



Vol. XVII. 



AUGUST, 1910. 



No. 8. 



collaborators. 



Charles F. Chandler, A.M., Ph.D., etc. 



Henry H. Rusby, M.D. 



Virgil Coblentz, A.M., Phar.M., etc. 



George C. Diekman, Ph.G., M.D. 



John Oehler, Ph.G. 



William J. Gies, Ph.D. 



Carlton C. Curtis, Ph.D. 



Anton Vorisek, Phar.D. 



William Mansfield, Phar.D. 

 Clinton B. Knapp, M.D. 

 W. A. Bastedo, Ph.G., M.D. 

 Frederick A. Leslie, Phar.D. 

 Charles W. Ballard, Ph.C. 

 Harry B. Ferguson, Phar.D. 



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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 

 EIGHTIETH ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT 



OF THE 



COLLEGE OF PHARMACY 



OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK 



Held at Carnegie Hall^ Thursday Evenings May 1 2th, 1910 



At 8 o'clock 

 {Continued from July Edition) 



I must take this opportunity to say a word also regarding the 

 value of general reading. Dr. Van Dyck says that he dined in 

 New York once with people whose wealth amounted to $30,000,000, 

 but their conversation was worth about 30 cents. That is true not 

 only of New York, but of other places. We find men able to talk 

 shop but nothing else, and the one thing they are able to talk about 

 we do not want to listen to. We are just as incapaljle of listening 

 to anything but talk about our own profession or business as we 



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