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THE ALUMNI JOURNAL. 



ANNUAL COnMENCEMENT. 



The Annual Commencement was held at Car- 

 negie Music Hall, on Wednesday evening, April 

 25. Promptly at 8.30 o'clock the graduating 

 class, headed by Mr. H. Atwood, proceeded to 

 the music of the Seventh Regiment Band, in 

 double file up the main aisle of this great hall 

 amid the applause of the thousands of friends 

 assembled to congratulate the graduating class. 

 The exercises were opened by prayer by the 

 Rev. Joseph M. Hodson. President S. W. Fair- 

 child then made a short address referring to the 

 steady progress in the work of the college, and 

 that the concluding lectures were given in the 

 new building. The roll of 128 graduates was 

 read by the Secretary, J. N. Hegeman, where- 

 upon the President of the college, on behalf of 

 the Board of Trustees, by the power invested 

 by the authorities of the State of New York, 

 conferred the degree of Graduate of Pharmacy 

 upon the members. The Rev. Dr. J. W. Brown, 

 rector of St. Thomas, then delivered the address 

 of the evening, which was pronounced the most 

 appropriate ever given to the graduating class. 

 He referred to the faculty as being composed of 

 comparatively young men, which was a sure 

 indication that this institution was destined to 

 an even greater future prosperity. He referred 

 to the acquirements of accuracy, the necessity 

 of fidelity to study and sincerity of purpose, and 

 reminded the class that some of the most won- 

 derful discoveries were made by pharmacists. 

 This address will be printed in full in the pro- 

 ceedings of the Alumni Association. 



Prof. C. F. Chandler read the "roll of honor" 

 of the graduating class. He said that to have 

 been one of the 128 was an honor, but to be one 

 of the 13 honor men was a thing for them to be 

 proud of the remainder of their lives, and 

 trusted that they might always lead in any en- 

 terprise with which they might be connected. 

 The honor roll consisted of the following, who, 

 out of a possible 600 points, received the an- 

 nexed number: W. A. Bastedo, 577; E. Jordan, 

 547; B. Culp, 543; F. C. A. Schaefer, 542; J. R. 

 Wood, 540; H. Kreuder, 536; J. H. Wurthmann, 

 531; R. W. Schaul, 526; O. Neubert, 521; C. L. 

 Richter, 523; B. F. Williams, 518; F. J. Hills, 

 507- 



The special prizes of one hundred dollars 

 each were awarded by the chairman of the 

 Board of Trustees, v-s. W. Fairchild, to J. R. 

 Wood in operative pharmacy, F. C. A. Schaefer 

 in practical pharmacy, and F. Jordan in phar- 

 macognosy and materia medica. The Alumni 



prizes were then awarded by Herman Graeser. 

 the President of the Alumni Association, who, 

 in presenting the prizes, delivered the following 

 address; 



Mr. President, Members of the Faculty, Ladies 

 and Gentlemen: 



It is my privilege this evening to appear be- 

 fore you as the representative of the Alumni 

 Association of the College of Pharmacy of the 

 City of New York. 



Our association was organized to advance the 

 interests of the college, to bring its graduates 

 into closer fellowship with each other, and to 

 promote sociability and good feeling among 

 them; to advance the science and art of phar- 

 macy, and to encourage undergraduates. 



It is a peculiar fact that although pharmacy 

 is an absolute necessity to man through all his 

 varied career, from the time he beholds the 

 light of day, until his spirit, wearied with the 

 toils of life, ascends to realms unknown, it has 

 never created a great stir among the public, nor 

 do they realize its importance. 



It is like a mighty undercurrent whose resist- 

 less power and overmastering force have cut a 

 deep and everlasting channel through the den- 

 sity of ignorance, and through the dark ages of 

 fear, torture and superstition, saving to useful - 

 nets many lives that would otherwize be lost. 



The Alumni Association feeling that it had an 

 unselfish duty to perform in assisting her alma 

 mater to raise the general standard of excel- 

 lence required, decided to lend its assistance in 

 such a manner, that the increased amount of 

 study required of a student, in order to reach 

 that standard, would be felt by him to be more 

 of a pleasure than a duty or hardship. There- 

 fore it was decided to give what are generally 

 known as the Alumni prizes. 



Competition for these prizes has been one of 

 the factors in urging every student to put forth 

 his best efforts to attain the all-desired end of 

 superior excellence, to reach that point in col- 

 lege fame where he can stand and wave his 

 bunting to the breeze, having distanced all com- 

 petitors, and cry "Excelsior." 



There are three prizes to be awarded — a gold 

 medal to the student attaining the highest 

 general average, a silver medal to his closest 

 competitor, and a bronze medal to the student 

 ranking third. 



The total number of marks attainable were 

 600, of which Mr. W. Arthur Bastedo received 

 577. or 96. 16 per cent.; Mr. Ernest Jordan re- 

 ceived 547, or 91.16 per cent.; Mr. Brevard Culp 

 received 543, or 90.50 per cent. 



