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citizens, alert, open-minded, fair, generous, kindly, hopeful, ready to put a 

 shoulder to the wheel and carry things on, ready to help, to advise, to co-operate, 

 looking upward and making their profession of service a constant means of per- 

 sonal growth. A man whose growth ends when the school or college door closes 

 behind him is not useful very long. All that the best of our schools and col- 

 leges can do, after all, is to prepare the soil and sow the seed, to teach the funda- 

 mental things, the elementary principles, the method, the point of view, and 

 then comes that extraordinary education which you and I call experience, that 

 which we learn by daily contact with our problems, be they personal or be they 

 professional, and that experience, if you look it squarely in the face, as every 

 honest man must, teaches its lesson again of responsibility — ^responsibility for 

 what you have learned, responsibility for what you can do, responsibility for 

 your own conception of yourself, responsibility to society, responsibility to God 

 and to your fellow. And that is, after all, the main spring to the success of 

 business life, whether it be pharmacy or banking, and whether it be law, medi- 

 cine or agriculture. So it is that the one word which I should like to impress 

 upon those who have joined the ranks of the profession of pharmacy tonight is 

 the word "responsibility." It will stand a lot of thinking over, a lot of talking 

 about, a lot of examination by one and all, and the man who in his profession 

 and in his life feels a sense of responsibility and acts up to it has proved the 

 worth of his manhood and made good use of his education. 



And so, my friends, I say to you, feel your sense of responsibility for what 

 you know, the sense of responsibility for what you can do, and, feelinpr it. the rest 

 is secure. 



Excerpts — From "The Spring Chicken" Carle 



AWARDING THE TRUSTEES SPECIAL PRIZES. 



William Mansfield. Phar. D. 



Mr. President. Trustees. Members of the Faeulty. Students, Ladies 

 and Gentlemen: 



You have already been told how the thirteen students have earned 

 a position on the roll of honor. The trustees of this college award 

 annually $ioo to the best examination in Pharmacy, $ioo to the best 

 examination in Chemistry, and $iooto the best examination in Materia 

 Medica. These prizes are contested for at a special examination held 

 in the different departments of the college. A student may be very 

 proficient in his theoretical knowledge of the subject, but he will not 

 win a prize if he is not able to show a practical knowledge of this sub- 

 ject at this examination. Any of the members of the honor roll may 

 try one or all of these special examinations, the prizes being awarded 

 to the student showing the highest proficiency in the different depart- 

 ments. As I call the names of those students who have attained the 

 highest proficiency in the different departments, they will kindly step 

 to the front of the platform. The student who has attained the highest 

 proficiency in Pharmacy is Mr. Fred Plum. The student who has 

 attained the highest proficiency in Chemistry is Mr. Alter S. Resler. 

 The student who has attained the highest proficiency in Materia Medica 



