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THE ALUMNI JOURNAL, 



^cpior Glass Notes. 



the; N. Y. C. p. &T. VALENTINE'S DAY. 



BY MISS MADGE O'CONNOR. 



We heard the " Phillies " and saw them. 



And candidly we were surprised. 

 We expected sober, staid, young men, 



But their appearance opened our eyes. 

 Their j'ells and musical war cries 



Remind us of our "ninety-six" — 

 Their ladies, genuine Minervas, 



Full of learning and maybe of tricks; 

 Their boys, with lungs of Comanches, 



Filled the halls with resonant sounds, 

 Like cowboys on Western ranches, 



Whose roistering knows no bounds. 

 Yet in courtly " kotowing " 



The "heathen Chinee" is not in it 

 With the "Phillies." Their bowing 

 Reminds of the French minuet. 

 However, it must be confessed 

 That the "Phillies" rank stcond best. 

 As the New Yorkers stand forth 

 Without rivals on earth. 

 Some one of these days 

 We'll deflect Roentgen's X ray.s. 

 And then we can tell 

 Why New Yorkers excel. 



A LARGE number of the Senior students suc- 

 ceeded in passing the City Board of Pharmacy 

 of February. About one hundred and twenty 

 took the examination and nearly one hundred 

 were successful in attaining the desired rating. 



If those Coniacs could find their way over to 

 desk i4ra the occupant promises that no names 

 will be mentioned. 



I HAVE been asked by several of the Class to 

 state plainly the true history of the difficulty 

 our Class has been laboring under in the adop- 

 tion of a Class Flag. This would take too long 

 and would be wearisome to some, but looking 

 on the sititation from a sensible and united 

 standpoint, it would have been better had the 

 Class unanimously adopted some design other 

 than the two under dispute. The feeling that 

 is now manifested can never be subdued, and 

 notwithstanding, the advocates of the N. Y. C. 

 P. flag claim theirs as the official, yet it is 

 understood that a majority of the sustainers of 

 the Benzol flag will adorn their rooms with the 



College colors, arranged, not in a kindergarten 

 ABC arrangement, but in the form adopted by 

 our College, our predecessor classes and also 

 as an emblem of the teaching of our good Pro- 

 fessor Chandler. The action of either side does 

 not show a united feeling, and so near the close 

 of a Senior year the situation seems almost un- 

 called for. Why could it not have been left to 

 the College officials and insured us a more 

 united Class? 



The first class of " The First Aid to the In- 

 jured " took their examination some days 

 since and succeeded in passing three out of the 

 class of fifteen. Of those two would have un- 

 doubtedly failed had it not been for their 

 "face." Three who were not granted a sheep- 

 skin and who's answers seemed very satisfactory 

 were undoubtedly forgotten. 



RUSBY says : "If you want it real hot, mix 

 a mustard plaster up with cold water." We 

 would judge that this could be explained on the 

 theory that a hot supper can be had by eating 

 pepper sauce and crackers. 



Mr. A. Deutschberger, Mr. F. H. Finley 

 and Mr. C. Wetmore Smith, were successful 

 in passing the King's Cotinty Board of Pharm- 

 acy of January last. 



Our Glee Club is coming to the front after 

 all and is making very favorable progress under 

 the leadership of Mr. Bagley, a member of the 

 class of '97. The officers of the Alumni Associa 

 tiou kindly offered the use of their room and 

 piano which was very thankfully accepted. 



We are sorry to learn that only two feminine 

 faces will be able to gaze upon the audience 

 from the stage at Carnegie Hall on commence- 

 ment day. Miss E. M. Aschenback, a member 

 of section one, has closed her college work and 

 will soon (we areiniormed) have "Mrs. "prefixed 

 to her name instead of the affix Ph. G., which 

 would have undoubtedly been her pleasure of 

 attaining had she remained to the end of the 

 term. Miss Ascbenbach was a faithful and 

 hard workiug student, and although laboring 

 under many difficulties, she stood at the head 

 in the practical work of the pharmaceutical 

 laboratory. Her future home will be at New 

 Rochelle. 



A VERY pleasant time was reported at the 

 social hop of the alumni, on the evening of 

 February 19th. The senior class received a 

 very cordial invitation, and was rt-presentedby 

 a goodly number. 



