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to-night that whatever may be your personal interest in these 

 exercises because of the presence of some individual, you are in 

 addition assisting at a ceremony which goes back many hundreds 

 of years. As you are well aware, it was in the middle ages that 

 the learned men, the artists or artisans of every kind, organized 

 themselves into guilds. Hiose guilds not only took charge of the 

 common trade or profession but they supervised the training of the 

 young men who were to enter upon that trade or profession, and 

 this College represents that oldest of educational traditions in which 

 the men who know and who practice oversee and care for the train- 

 ing of those who are to come after them, and what you are to wit- 

 ness to-night is the admission into a profession for which they have 

 been trained by a body of men who have commended themselves to 

 their elders and who have made the standards of excellence which 

 those elders have fixed because they have themselves found them 

 to be necessary and useful. Therefore, I beg you to remember that 

 this evening is not only the academic anniversary of an individual 

 or of a class, l)ut it represents another stage in the history of the 

 development of the calling of the pharmacist and the pharmaceu- 

 tical chemist. Like the lawyer, like the physician, like the engineer, 

 like the doctor, when their test of successful preparation lies in the 

 fact that the elders believe that a useful and sufficient foundation 

 for the career has been laid. 



The trustees are present to-night not only to grace this occasion 

 by their presence but formally to represent the approval of the 

 profession from which they are chosen by the young men who have 

 chosen to enter that same profession. 



To this Seventy-seventh Annual Commencement 1 l)i(l you a 

 hearty and cordial welcome. 



Novelette— "Paddy Whack" Lampe 



ROLL OF GRADUATES IN PHARMACY. 



Secretary Thomas F. Main, Ph. G. 



Mr. President: 



The students whose names I am about to read have complied 

 with the requirements of the law and the College of Pharmacy and 

 are now presented to received at your hands the degree of Graduate 

 in Pharmacy. 



