TFIE ALUMNI JOURNAL. 



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Professor Bastin, of the Philadelphia Col- 

 lege of Pharmacy, accompanied by others of 

 the college staff, and about fifteen of the senior 

 students made us a very pleasant call a short 

 time since. The company was of a very jovial 

 nature, and gave some very clever class cries. 

 They spent the evening at a Broadway theatre, 

 and on the following day accepted an invitation 

 extended to them by Messrs. Parke, Davis & Co. 

 to visit the emporium of the company. 



A MEMBER of the junior class (we were unable 

 to learn his name) attended one of our phar- 

 macy lectures, and at first was somewhat inter- 

 ested, but as the blackboard equations waxed 

 long, and still longer, and the articulation from 

 off our silver tongued professor grew swift, and 

 yet swifter, the poor fellow fully realizing his 

 work of next year calmly fell asleep. Undoubt- 

 edly he will awaken next year. 



The class motto recently adopted is, " Ne 

 cede malis,'" meaning, "Yield not to mis- 

 fortunes." Our president thought it was, "Yield 

 not to temptation," but this small error is 

 easily excusable in view of the fact that he used 

 to teach a Sunday school class before comiug to 

 the city. 



The contract to make the class pin of '96 has 

 been awarded to the Gorham Co., and can be 

 had by members of the class from any of the 

 committee having the matter in charge. The 

 pin is conceded by all to be very neat and 

 serviceable ; besides there are more pins of this 

 design among the graduates of N. Y. C. P. than 

 any other. 



At a regular meeting of the class held Wed- 

 nesday, February 19th, the Executive Commit- 

 tee on Commencement Exercises was elected. 

 The committee consists of ten, including the 

 regular class officers and the following five 

 members : Protzmann, C. Wesley Smith, C. 

 Wetmore Smith, J. M. Kraft and J. Morris. 



At a meeting of the class it was voted that 

 we have our pictures taken as a remembrance 

 of college days. 



Regular cabinets of each member are to be 

 made from which a mat picture will be made by 

 the photographer. It may not be out of order 

 to remind the class that each member should 

 go to the photographer as soon as possible as a 

 great many must be taken requiring some time. 

 One advantage of no small degree is that each 

 member may in addition get a dozen photos at 

 greatly reduced rates. Any information relat- 

 ing to this may be obtained from O. F. Ives. 



The members of Section one are sorry to lose 

 Miss Aschenbach as a classmate. Ill health has 

 obliged her to discontinue her studies and seek 

 country air and rest. She will later join one of 

 the following classes. We all wished that she 

 might have graduated with the Class of '96. 



A large number of '96 took the examination 

 of the City Board on February loth. All hope 

 to have passed. 



It was pleasing to note the large attendance 

 and unusual interest taken by the students and 

 their friends at one of Prof. Rusby's lectures 

 at the college Monday evening, February loth. 

 The lecture was one of the Professor's favorites 

 and was beautifully illustrated with lantern- 

 slides showing the plants of the different 

 natural orders that have been taken up in the 

 course. The part of the lectiire relating to 

 Cinchona barks was most interesting and in- 

 structive, the history of their growth and and 

 mode of collection based on Prof. Rusby's per- 

 sonal experience, while in South America. 

 Jonathan Morris, 



Rep. Sec. i. 



POISONING BY FLUTES. 



Dr. J. H. Smith, in a paper read at a 

 meeting of the Homceopathic Medical 

 Society, reports several cases of "flute 

 poisoning." Grenadille, or cocus wood, 

 has for many j^ears been employed in the 

 manufacture of this musical instrtiment, 

 inasmuch as it gives a brilliant and pow- 

 erful sound, which mellows and becomes 

 more flexible with the age of the instru- 

 ment. Dr. Smith says: " There is most 

 trustworthy testimony from Germany, 

 England and America to the fact that 

 cocus wood, and no other material, is 

 found by certain susceptible flutists ca- 

 pable of producing seriotis irritation of 

 the lip, necessitating the use of a cres- 

 cent shaped silver or gold lip-plate, shel- 

 lacked to the mouth-hole or embrasure." 

 The author describes the malady as a lip 

 excessively swollen, extremely red, with 

 large blotches covered by vesicles. Re- 

 lief is had by the application of a solu- 

 tion of nitrate of lead in water, i to 2000. 

 — Drug Cir. 



