THE ALUMNI JOURNAL, 



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Published under the auspices of the 



Alumni Association of tlie College of Pharmacy 



OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, 



115=119 WEST 68th STREET, 



Vol. III. 



ApriIv, 1896. 



No. 4- 



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EDITOR. 



FRED. HOHENTHAL, PH. G. 



assistant editors. 

 K. C. MAHEGIN, PH. G. 



J. KUSSY, Ph. G. 

 RUD. BOENKE, Ph. G. 



ASSOCIATE EDITORS, 



CHARLES RICE, Ph. D. 



CHARLES F. CHANDLER, PH. D., M. D 



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The Annual Meeting (and election of 

 officers) of our College was much better 

 and more enthusiastically attended than 

 in previous years, and the brilliant staff 

 of ofiicers elected bodes well for the en- 

 suing year. At the conclusion of the 

 election the retiring President, Samuel 

 W. Fairchild, was presented with a 

 beautiful bronze figure mounted on a 

 solid marble pedestal (five feet high in 

 all) as an appreciation of the wonder- 

 ful and indefatigable work he had done 

 for our College. The President respond 

 ed in happy words, stating that when he 

 entered the room he saw that canopy- 

 covered figure, but paid no further at- 

 tention to It, supposing it one of the ap- 

 paratuses used by the professors to il- 

 lustrate their lectures. The professors 

 present smiled. 



The next lecture \s\\\ be by the same 

 accomplished gentlemen, Herman A. 

 Heydt, Ph. B. LL. B., who delighted 

 us with the European lecture, and will 

 be on Motmtain Climbmg in Switzerland, 

 illustrated with stereopticon views, on 

 Wednesday evening, April 8th, at 8. 

 o'clock. It is sincerely hoped a good 

 audience will be present, as Mr. Heydt' s 

 lectures are too good to be missed. 



EDITORIAL. 



The Annual Meeting of the Alumni 

 Association on the celebration of Alumni 

 Day will take place on May 6th, the day 

 before the Commencement of the College. 



Full details will be published in the 

 next issue. 



Before another Journal is issued the 

 boys of '96 will have passed through the 

 severe ordeal of showing what they have 

 learned (or don't know), and many will, 

 after having pocketed their sheepskins 

 and doffed their high hats and swallow 

 tail coats after the Commencement is 

 over, travel to different parts of the 

 the country to commence the battle of 

 life in earnest. We hope that, whether 



Merck's 1896 Index has just been 

 issued and will be found by all who pos- 

 sess it as a very handy and correct refer- 

 ence book. 



This year's Commencement of our 

 College will take place at Carnegie Hall 

 on May 7th in the usual felicitious man- 

 ner as in previous years, as can only be 

 expected when such genial and experi- 

 enced gentlemen who have managed 

 these delightful and impressive ceremo- 

 nies before are in charge again. 



The very accurate report of Dr. Phil- 

 lips' excellent lecture was taken in short- 

 hand by Messrs. Chas. W. Morris and 

 W. A. Cornell, of 252 W. 22d .street, 

 New York, who can be recommended for 

 their superior qualities in that line for 

 medical and pharmaceutical work. 



