PUBLISHED BY THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 

 OF THE COLLEGE OF PHARMACY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK 



Vol. III. 



New York, March, 1896. 



No. 3- 



FIVE MINUTE GLIMPSES OF EUROPE. 



By HERMAN A. HEYDT, Ph. B., L. L. B. 



LIBRARY 

 NEW YORK 

 BOTANICAL 



Qarden. 



Mr. President, Members of the Aliunni 

 Association and Friends: — 



When your committee honored me 

 some time ago with the request to address 

 you this evening, I was in quite a quan- 

 dary what to talk about. I know it 

 would be quite apropos of these troub- 

 lous times to talk of civil service reform, 

 the Venezulean question, of the Tariff 

 bill, etc., but knowing that for the past 

 few years your minds have been troubled 

 with Materia Medica, SO, and the like, 

 I deemed it advisable to forget scientific 

 subjects for the evening and to discuss 

 personal reminiscenses. 



But then came the second quandry. 

 One thousand and eighty incidents loomed 

 up before me, and if I allotted five minutes 

 to each, it would be 5400 minutes or 3^ 

 days. I had a serious consultation with 

 chairman and he informed me the human 

 system was so constructed that it could 

 not withstand poor oratory longer than 



one hour. And he begged me not to talk 

 to you longer than one hour. So, bearing 

 in mind the story of the church-member, 

 who upon being asked why he always 

 sleeps during the sermon, said, I am con- 

 veyed to the land of Nod by the parson's 

 train of thought,! will ask you to go with 

 me to Europe and we will take five minute 

 peeps at some of the interesting things 

 we find there. As I said before, the one 

 great drawback to this subject is the 

 quandary it puts me in as to where to go 

 and what to see, for there are so many, 

 mau}^ things which we have not and 

 which are certainly worthy of our notice. 

 It would be infinitely easier for me to de- 

 scribe the tour of the Continent than to 

 jump from one place to another, but I 

 understand your committee is very par- 

 ticular and insistent, therefore I will con- 

 fine myself strictly to my subject, "Five 

 Minute Glimpses of Europe." Under 

 this head I will attempt to give you .some 

 idea of the Whitechapel District of Eon- 



