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THE ALUMNI JOURNAL. 



crude drugs, making tannic acid suppositories 

 or generating an excessive amount of H^, S. , 

 but also men skilled in the science of the manly 

 art, which goes to show that a gymnasium as 

 an addition to our new building would be a vast 

 improvement in that art, although it may prove 

 detrimental to the other branches. 



Gentlemen, the history of this class will be 

 marked by the fact of its being the first to do 

 away with that old-time and worn-out custom 

 of rendering the valedictory at the commence- 

 ment, which no doubt was a wise idea, as it is 

 intended for the class, and the class only. 

 Now, let us go still further and add more glory 

 to our class history by being the first class to 

 join the Alumni Association in a body. Other 

 colleges are doing it; why cannot we be the 

 first class in our college to doit? So that in 

 after years, when looking back over the history 

 of the classes, when it comes to '94 we may 

 not see "ditto" or " graduated; left the college, 

 have not heard from since;" but they may see 

 the words, as though in bas relief: "This 

 was the first class to join the Alumni in a 

 body," proving that the bonds of friendship 

 woven together during our college course were 

 not to be severed at graduation, but that we 

 would come together at least once a year as 

 members of the alumni, to further the interests 

 of pharmacy, and our College thereby proving 

 the history of the class of '94 a credit to its 

 Alma Mater. 



OUR FUTURE. 



UY JOSEPH R. WOODS. 



Mr. President and Gentlemen: 



To-night we are met together for a good time 

 for the last time before we separate. Many of 

 us, perhaps, will not meet again. Others of us 

 may be more fortunate. 



It has indeed been a pleasure to listen to the 

 history of our class. How, as juniors, we came 

 together, unknown to each other; how, before 

 the year was over, we had made friends and had 

 developed as a class; and how, as we went 

 through our senior year, we had, besides our 

 work, the touches here and there of jollity and 

 of melancholy. And with this we are brought 

 to the present time. The next topic to present 

 itself is Our Future, 



To this, as to most phases of life, there is the 

 serious side and the gay. 



So with all solemnity due to the occasion, we 

 can imagine, perhaps, if we stretch our imagin- 

 ation, each and every one of us, plodding away 



at the prescription counter, from early morning- 

 to late at night, from one year's end to the 

 other. 



But we have a possible way out of this diffi- 

 culty, gentlemen. And not only this difficulty, 

 but any others in the same class. The means 

 is through our Alumni Association. 



Now I don't wish to say much about this, for 

 we have with us, to-night, its president, who is 

 going to speak to us about it. But I do want,, 

 as a fellow student, to beg every graduating 

 man here to-night to join that association. 

 Remember, gentlemen, that the future of this 

 college can be bettered one hundred per cent, 

 by its alumni, and that the alumni of any col- 

 lege can do more for its graduates and their 

 brethren than almost any other body of men. 

 It is our duty to do this, and let every man, to- 

 morrow afternoon, come out and show his 

 colors for the N. Y. C. P. 



In this association we are brought in close 

 relations with each other. It is almost the only 

 means by which we shall keep up many of the 

 friendships and acquaintances we have made in 

 this college — by having a common object in 

 view, and in coming together to accomplish it. 



The future home of the college will, I hope, 

 often be visited by us; there we may hope to 

 see the familiar faces of each one of our faculty, 

 and our instructors, who have proved them- 

 selves such true friends to us; and Mr. Davis, 

 and Mr. Griffin, and even Old Schuyler, who, 

 I'm sure, has done at least one favor for every 

 man in the college, to say nothing of the many 

 extended to most of us. 



And, individually, there can be but few men 

 in the class whose future is not in his own mind 

 quite clearly mapped out. And, if the map be 

 a good one, I am sure we all wish for the success 

 of it, for each one here. But let us not once for- 

 get that the future is made up, not of to-mor- 

 rows, but of to days. And in remembering this 

 fact, and acting upon it, by making the most 

 possible of every minute of our lives, we must 

 be the winners, and our futures be assured. 



ADDRESS 



BY INSTRUCTOR JOHN OEHLER. 



Mr. President, and Gentlemen, Fellow Col- 

 leagues, and more especially members of the 

 Class of 'g4: 



As a rule I prefer to speak extemporaneously, 

 for it has been my experience that one can be 

 more earnest and convincing, but as the spirit 

 of "wanting a change" is prevalent in the land 

 I have acceded to this spirit, and for once have 



