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is money bearing no fruit, for that is the point I most emphatically 

 wish to contradict. You trustees, by maintaining this institution, 

 although in doing so you are not rated as much by the commercial 

 world, represent the true propagators of advancement, a fact which 

 the majority of people are either ignorant or heedless of, but also a 

 fact of which the thousands of graduates of this institution are 

 fully conscious of. They, the people, picture before themselves that 

 the greatest men are the purely commercial men, the commercial 

 corporation presidents, and vice-presidents, etc. I do not mean to 

 say that these men are deserving of no admiration, for they are ; 

 but what I do mean to convey is, that, upon comparing the com- 

 mon good accomplished by these men with the efforts and com- 

 mon good accomplished by you trustees, we find that glory and 

 esteem are not fairly distributed. Why do I say this? Simply 

 because the purely commercial men — I mean men seeking only to 

 enhance their own individual interests, — their own mountains of 

 gold being the only things thereby benefited, — these men it seems 

 are continually kept in the limelight of greatness, whereas, you 

 trustees who are of course members of a corporation, but differ 

 totally in being members of an educational corporation, and seek- 

 ing to further the interests of the people by advancing a profession 

 which is most intimately connected with the people, — you men -are 

 comparatively kept in oblivion. 



How do you men r-ender a great service to the people? Because 

 you are a great factor in the advancement of Pharmacy ! And 

 why this? Because you are the link existing between the student- 

 body and the instructing-body. Were it not for you men, where 

 would the co-operation between the student and the instructor, — 

 in other words, the means, — the means, I say, of the promulgation 

 of the knowledge of the preceding generation to the present gener- 

 ation be? The answer is obvious. Were it not for the trustees, no 

 progression from the Pharmacy of the past to the Pharmacy of 

 the present and future could exist. Under these conditions, of 

 course, the advancement of a profession which so seriously con- 

 cerns the people would materially decrease, resulting eventually in 

 very detrimental results. 



That is the reason you men render a great service to the peo- 

 ple, and in rendering this service you deserve a high esteem not 

 only from the men and women, who were graduated from this in- 



