100 THE ALUMNI JOURNAL I 



AWARDING THE TRUSTEES' SPECIAL PRIZES. 

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



Members of the Faculty, Board of Trustees, Class, Ladies and 

 Gentlemen : 



In explanation of the applause with which my entrance is 

 greeted, I may say that I have $300. It has become my very pleas- 

 ant duty and privilege to present this evening the Trustees' Prizes, 



I do not think that what I am going to say now, will be of as 

 much interest to the audience, as will be the awarding of the prizes, 

 but I am certain that it will interest the members of the Class, the 

 members of the Board of Trustees and the members of the Faculty. 



At the Pharmecopoeial Convention, whose sessions just closed, 

 there were elected no less than six representatives of this College 

 to serve either as members of the new Revision Committee, or as 

 officers of the Convention. 



In order to explain what these Trustees' prizes really mean, I 

 will say that the number of young gentlemen and ladies who are 

 selected to compete for these prizes are taken from the Honor Roll 

 which was read early in the evening, besides that such students as 

 have shown special proficiency in any one department may be re- 

 quired or requested to participate in this examination. This ex- 

 amination, as you may imagine, is very severe. The Faculty is at 

 times inclined to be a little lenient in its judgment of studen-ts for 

 the final examinations; there is no leniency shown, however, when 

 the present examination is under consideration, so that these gen- 

 tlemen whose names I shall call in a few minutes represent the 

 essence of the class. They represent in their respective depart- 

 ments, as I have said just now, the essence of the entire class. This 

 examination is chiefly practical, a special examination ; it isn't the- 

 oretical, it isn't anything a man can learn from a book test. He 

 has got to work in the laboratory. — chemicals, drugs, and got to 

 manufacture and identify them in the course of preparation and 

 otherwise, and it is something that they have gone farther into than 

 the course required ; they studied more than the course called for, 

 and they show a great efficiency. I might say that these prizes are 

 to be awarded this year. 



