THE ALUMNI JOURNAL. 



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Post- Graduate Class by the President, 

 Samuel W. Fairchild, Ph G.: 



POST-GRADUATE CLASS. 



Charles H. Bjorkevall, New York, 

 N. Y.; Harry B. Ferguson, Little Falls, 

 N. Y.; Rudolph Gies, New York, N. Y.; 

 George H. Jorgensen, New York, N. Y.; 

 Joseph F. McCarthy, Yonkers, N. Y. ; 

 Christopher Niederer, Jr., Carlstadt, 

 N. Y.; Frank F. Ogden, Middletown, 

 New York, 

 President Fairchild ; 



Ladies and Gentlemen — In the year 1 894 the 

 legislature of this State passed an Act authoriz- 

 ing the College of Pharmacy, of the City of 

 New York, to confer the degree of Doctor of 

 Pharmacy upon its own graduates or the gradu- 

 ate of any other college in good standing, after 

 they had taken a post-graduate course, and had 

 passed the examination and had been certified 

 by the Faculty and the Trustees as being prop- 

 erly qualified to receive that degree. There is 

 no one fact that I could bring before you to- 

 night to illustrate the progress which the Col- 

 lege of Pharmacy of the City of New York, is 

 making better than to point to this class of 

 seven young gentlemen, who are fully qualified 

 to receive the degree of doctor of pharmacy. 

 (Applause.) It is one of the most pleasant 

 duties which will fall to my lot this evening to 

 confer this degree. 



Gentlemen — By the authority of the State of 

 New York, conferred upon me as Chairman of 

 the Board of Trustees of the College of Phar- 

 macy of the City of New York, I hereby declare 

 that you are doctors of pharmacy, (applause), 

 and I oflFer you the congratulations of the Board 

 of Trustees, and of every member of the Col- 

 lege of Pharmacy of the City of New York. I 

 beg that in the future you will remember that 

 by honoring yourselves, you will honor the 

 institution that has given you professional birth. 

 Gentlemen I congratulate you. 



Music, "Indian War Dance, "Bellstedt. 

 President Fairchild : 



Prof. Arthur H. Elliott will read 

 The Roll of Honor 



on behalf of the Examination Commit- 

 tee. (Appluase.) 

 Prof. Elliott ; 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen — It 

 gives me great pleasure to read the roll of honor 



on behalf of the Lecture Committee. You 

 must understand that the figures given repre- 

 sent points of work. In all the work of the 

 students of this class, the greatest number of 

 points that any one student can make is 600. 

 The man that came nearest to that is Karl 

 Schnackenberg with 551 points. Mr. Schnacken- 

 berg got 551 points, or putting it in percentage 

 it is 91.83 per cent. The next man was not far 

 behind him. Merton J. Coats got 550, or 91.66 

 per cent. The next man on the list is Karl M. 

 Vogel, 548; that is 91. 33 per cent. The next 

 man is Adolph G. Massman, 545 points, or 

 90.83 per cent. The next man is Paul O. L. 

 Thielke, 543 points, or 90.50 per cent. The 

 next man is David Westheimer, 542 points, or 

 90 33 '3 per cent. The next man is Erastus W. 

 Bulkley, 533 out of a possible 600, or 88 per 

 cent. The next man is Alois Hostomsky. He 

 pairs with the man preceeding him, 533, or 

 88 percent, Louis Protzmann, 532, or 88.66 

 per cent. ; Henry Brown. 523, or 87.16 per cent.; 

 Guy H. McCoy, 519, or 8650 per cent. : John 

 H. ISberhardt, Jr., 517, or 86.16 per cent,; 

 Thomas Le Clear, 516, or 86 per cent. 



Gentlemen, It is with great pleasure that I 

 have to congratulate you upon getting on the 

 Roll of Honor. I had the good fortune on Satur- 

 day to hear President Elliott, of Harvard Col- 

 lege, address that large concourse of people on 

 Morningside Heights at the dedication of Colum- 

 bia, and one of the remarks that he made im- 

 pressed me very much. In speaking of Colum- 

 bia and her work, and the institutions of learn- 

 ing in general around New York, he said : 

 "New York demands of her institutions of 

 learning, experts." You have proven by your 

 work and by your standing here to-night, that 

 in this class of 1896, you are the experts. Now, 

 let us hope that the honors you gain to-night 

 you will constantly bear in mind, and you will 

 constantly hold your colors high and stand up 

 to them like men. Let us hope that this is but 

 the beginning of many honors that will be con- 

 ferred upon you, and that you will always re- 

 member your alma mater and keep her name 

 unsullied. (Applause.) 



Music, "Narcissus," Nevin. 



Awarding Special College Prizes. 



President Fairchild : 



There are three prizes offered every year by 

 the College of Pharmacy to those three students 

 who excel in practical pharmacy, practical 

 chemistry, and in materia medica and phar- 

 macognosy. Up to the present moment I feel 



