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stitution, but also, and more so, from the great bulk of people to 

 whom they render their prolific services. Why the adjective 

 "great" is applied to the moneymaker in preference to the educa- 

 tor is a question which cannot be answered to-night. However, 

 as the class of 1910 bids you a hearty farewell, this evening, I can 

 give 3'ou one consolation. 



Take cognizance of the men and women whom you graduate 

 year after year from this institution. In the heart of every one of 

 them lies the highest esteem and most profound respect for the 

 trustees of the New York College of Pharmacy, — for the men who 

 are a great factor in the dissemination of knowledge, — for the men 

 who in the largest measure constitute the very foundation of a col- 

 lege education. The class of 1910 regretfully and respectfully bids 

 you a hearty farewell. 



Members of the faculty! To those who are to-night absent and 

 to our worthy professor of analytical chemistry, Dr. Anton Vorisek 

 (pointing to a box on the first tier), the class of 1910, if indebted to 

 anybody, is certainly indebted to you. As a result of having been 

 associated with you men for the past two years, no one of the class 

 of 191 o can deny that he has profited wonderfully, both along edu- 

 cational and along moral lines. The world little knows what bene- 

 fits have been reaped through you, little the world knows that its 

 steady advancement is due to your indefatigable energy in unearth- 

 ing scientific facts, the world little knows the stand which you take 

 in fighting ignorance and developing the highest attainments of the 

 human race. The professions, and as a direct result, the people owe 

 their present degree of development, in a large measure, to the 

 class of individuals to which you belong. Take away the college in- 

 structors and you will place the prince of retrogression — ignorance 

 on a pedestal — take away the college professors, take away the men 

 who sacrifice pleasure for the purpose of scientific inquiries, and 

 you will blot out the spirit to which the indispensable telephone 

 and telegraph, the wonderful Roentgen rays and the greatest of all 

 accomplishments, the successful combating of disease owe their 

 very existence. This is a fact with which the ordinary layman is 

 unacquainted, and this in turn is why the homage due to you is not 

 entirely yours. However, rest as it may, the class of 1910 will en- 

 deavor to be foremost in espousing your earnest cause, and in fos- 

 tering in the minds of the public that there is no class of individ- 

 uals which deserves the admiration of the public more than that 



