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THE ALUMNI JOURNAL, 



to give sound advice ; to point out the mile- 

 stones of success along the pathway of life. I 

 know no patent on success. I know only one 

 way to achieve it. That one way is work, work, 

 work, always work. I have never achieved 

 anything that was not due to work. I have 

 never made a failure that work would not have 

 averted that failure. To me work is a religion. 

 It is omnipotent. There is nothing that it can- 

 not accomplish. In its power it is God-like. 

 Sacrifice to it your time, your brains and your 

 energy and it will crown you with laurels and 

 soothe your years with the applause of public 

 approval. Refuse it and its punishment is 

 oblivion and the contempt of your fellow-men. 

 I know nothing that is new. I know only those 

 things that the world holds good ; that have 

 lasted through all the centuries. I have learned 

 only this, that as the old songs are the best 

 songs because they never fail to touch a re- 

 sponsive chord in the human heart, so the old 

 truths are the best truths because they have 

 stood the test of time and have removed all 

 possibility of doubt. 



Be single in your purpose. You can never 

 achieve anything unless you set your mark and 

 never let anything move you from it. You 

 have chosen to-night to be apothecaries, to be 

 pharmacists. Let not any temptation divert 

 you from that purpose. You must go straight 

 to your point and refuse all temptation other- 

 wise. 



Remember to value time. It is more precious 

 than gold. As you sit here to-night I doubt 

 not that the years look long to you. They 

 always look long in the springtime of life, but 

 when the autumn comes they grow so short, so 

 short, that there seems no time to do anything. 

 There is no spectacle so pitiful in all the world 

 as the man who suddenly rises in the afternoon 

 of life to a conviction of the fact that the prom- 

 ise of his youth is gone ; that his opportunity is 

 lost. All that he can do is to stagger to his feet 

 and cry aloud, "Too late! too late! O Work, 

 thou God of Success ! Thy punishments are as 

 severe as thy rewards are grateful." 



There is no advice I can give you better than 



that which Polonius gave to Laertes ; 



" Neither a borrower nor a lender be, 

 For loan oft loses both itself and friend, 

 And borrowing dulls the age ol husbandry, 

 This above all— to thine own self be true ; 

 And it must follow, as the night the day, 

 Thou canst not then be false to any man," 



Read the Bible and study the Constitution of 

 the United States. In the former you will find 

 the moral precepts that have preserved the 



human race. In the latter you will learn the 

 basic principles of human liberty — principles 

 that have made your country the greatest Re- 

 public on the earth ; principles that have made 

 your flag, the blessed Stars and Stripes, the 

 emblem of freedom (applause), the emblem of 

 freedom the whole world over. There is not a day 

 that I do not thank God that I was born an 

 American citizen. (Applause.) That same 

 good fortune is yours. It makes you the peers 

 of any man, in any country. It gives you the 

 heritage of the best blood of the earth, for the 

 blood of the American people is the blood of 

 all the liberty loving people of all the nations 

 of the earth. (Applause. ) People that to ob- 

 tain freedom and the blessings of liberty chose 

 to be American citizens. To obtain that blood 

 the Goddess of Liberty skimmed the hearts of 

 mankind. 



Cherish your heritage. Cherish it, that in the 

 exercise of your right of suffrage you may 

 guard your country and your city, for it always 

 needs the guardian of the people to save it from 

 the politician. Guard it, that the government 

 for which Washington fought and Lincoln 

 died, the government of the people, for the 

 people and by the people, may not perish from 

 the earth. 



Finally, remember one thing. No good 

 deed ever failed to bring its own reward. No 

 evil deed sooner or later ever failed to bring its 

 own punishment. The man who squares his 

 life by the Golden Rule needs fear neither the 

 criticism of his time nor the judgement of his 

 God; but the man who transgresses truth and 

 justice and right, must suS"er the consequence 

 of his sins. A good man never dies, and a good 

 woman — a good woman is already an angel. 

 (Applause. ) The sun of a good man's life may 

 set, but the skies of memory will always remain 

 aglow with the golden rays of his deeds. This 

 is the goal of true a bition; to so live, that in 

 the end the stars shall sing together, the world 

 is better that this man has lived. To so live 

 that posterity may point to your life and say : 

 "To be great is to do good." To so live that 

 your life shall illustrate and emphasize this 

 great truth. 

 "Right is right, as God is God, and right the day must 



win. 

 To doubt would be disloyalty, to falter would be sin." 



(Applause. ) 

 Music, "A Hunt in the Black Forest," 



Voelker. j 



Doctor of Pharmacy. 



Conferring Degree on students of the 



