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about me I have pinched myself to see if I were alive. Such pleas- 

 ant things are usually said about a man after he is dead. You have 

 all heard what I have done for the College. What has this College 

 done for me ? It has moulded and built my soul. I have profited 

 by my association with the other members of the faculty and with 

 the trustees. I have grown in character each year of my associa- 

 tion with the College. In my work as dean of the College I have 

 been brought closely in contact with the worst Clements of the 

 various classes. Instead of removing these men from the College 

 I have admonished them and saved them from themselves. The 

 College of Pharmacy is not a one-man College; it is a College of 

 growth. It is a College which always does what it says it will do. 

 The spirit of harmony is the dominant note in the College of 

 Pharmacy." 



Mr. Thomas Main, in speaking for the alumni association, said 

 in part : " I was one of the signers of the petition to form an 

 alumni association. The other signers were : P. W. Bedford, class 

 of 1858; D. C. Robbins, class of 1836; William Hegeman. class of 

 1837; E. L. Milhau, class of 1856; C. B. Smith, class of 1863; 

 Theobald Frohwein, class of 1863; J. W. Ballard, class of 1870; 

 Edwin Henes, class of 1871. The call was sent out on May 10, 

 1871. Six of the nine signers have now passed away. Those left 

 are John W. Ballard, who, having had a successful drug störe in 

 Davenport, la., for many years, is now a banker; his drug störe is 

 now conducted by one of his sons under the name of the Ballard 

 Drug and Dental Company. The other two survivors are Edwin 

 Henes, of this city, and myself. P. W. Bedford played a most 

 important part in forming the association. He not only signed the 

 call but by his influence obtained the names and secured the influ- 

 ence of the signers, and I strongly suspect was instrumental in in- 

 fluencing D. C. Robbins, of the class of 1836, who was then con- 

 sidered the Nestor of the wholesale drug trade not only of New 

 York, but also of the entire United States. He accepted the presi- 

 dency of the new association for the first two years of its existence, 

 which insured its success from the start. 



" Mr. President, I venture to think that one of the things the 

 Alumni Association may well be proud of is the part it took in 



