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PRAYER. 



Reverend Frank Olivier Hall. 



Let us unite in prayer: 



Seeking strength for the battle of Hfe, we turn to thee, O God, 

 who are the ever present help. Life is a battle in which we must 

 all take part There are many things that help; and for these 

 things we give our hearty thanks. Home helps, school helps, the 

 church helps, college helps, the applause and the approval of friends 

 help. We thank thee for all of these things and what they have 

 been to our lives. There are many things that hinder. Temptation 

 hinders. We ask thy pardon. O God, inasmuch as we have known 

 these helps and these hindrances that we have prayed so contin- 

 ually that Thou lead us not into temptation and that we have gone 

 into temptation of our own free will and we pray that thy blessing 

 rest upon us, adding this help and that we may turn our backs upon 

 what hinders our success. We are not satisfied with the world in 

 which we live. We desire above all things to seek thy kingdom 

 come, and working for the bringing in of thy kingdom, so may we 

 give ourselves to that aim. We pray for thy benediction and thy 

 blessing, upon this evening's exercises, but we pray especially that 

 thy blessing may rest upon these young men who are about to 

 make their entrance upon the activities of the world's life. May 

 they become true to the highest ideals. We ask this in the name 

 of the Nazarene. Amen ! 



Selections— From "The Red Mill" Herbert 



ADDRESS. 



President Nicholas Murray Butler, Ph. D. 

 On behalf of the Trustees and the Faculty of the College of 

 Pharmacy of the City of New York, it is my agreeable duty to 

 welcome you to the Seventy-seventh Commencement of the Col- 

 lege. For more than three-quarters of a century this College has 

 stedaily maintained in this city and from its platform in this city 

 in the State and Nation, the highest ideals of training for a useful 

 profession among men. Our college deserves well not only of the 

 profession which has fostered and cared for it but of the community 

 which it has served through its successive generations of well 

 trained and devoted graduates. It is worth while remembering 



