TPIE ALUMNI JOURNAL 79 



READING ROLL OF HONOR. 



Dean Henry Hurd Rusby, M. D. 

 Ladies and Gentlemen: 



In presenting to you this evening the Honor Students of our class 

 of 1907, I feel called upon to direct your attention to this occasion as 

 one of very great importance in the history of the college. You are 

 the guests this evening of the first class to graduate from this college 

 under the new law which requires that every student entering a School 

 of Pharmacy in this state shall have enjoyed the advantages of at 

 best, some education in a high school, the minimum requirement being 

 at the present time, one year. This new condition means a great 

 deal to the College of Pharmacy, but it means more to the 

 profession and very much more to those who are depending upon the 

 profession for their pharmaceutical service ; because this same law 

 which provides that a student of pharmacy possess the equivalent of 

 one year in a high school, also forbids our Board of Pharmacy to 

 accept for examination or license, the graduates of other colleges who 

 have not enjoyed equal privileges, and so it means for the state of 

 New York, ultimately, a high class of pharmaceutical service. So 

 far as our college is concerned, the condition is not by any means 

 effective in one direction, only because this law for a short time at 

 least will very greatly curtail our revenues from the fees of students. 

 At the present time I think we are not far from being one-half as 

 rich from this source as we used to be during an average year. We 

 make the sacrifice not only willingly but gladly, because we are sensible 

 of very great advantages which more than compensate for this tem- 

 porary disadvantage. 



During the past two years, especially the past year, we have looked 

 into the faces of students all of whom were intelligent, some of them 

 very intelligent; because I must tell you that it is the object of our 

 college to try to induce students to remain in a high school until they 

 have graduated, and the percentage of such students in our classes 

 is steadily increasing. About 25% of the members of the present 

 junior class have graduated from high schools. You will thus see that 

 we have good reasons to be grateful, in spite of the money loss which 

 has been entailed upon us. 



Coming now to speak of the twelve young gentlemen and the one 

 young ladv, our lone star, whose names appear upon the Roll of Honor, 

 I want to tell you that they have undergone a very severe examination. 



