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THE ALUMNI JOURNAL. 



anguish wherever disease has set its heavy 

 hand. 



But alas ! One who at the beginning of the 

 last session was one of you, has been taken 

 from our midst by the will of our Heavenly 

 Father. To-day we recall his brilliant intellect, 

 his true manliness of character and his sterling 

 personality. Esteemed and honored by all who 

 knew him, self-sacrificing in his devoted inter- 

 est to our Alma Mater and ourselves, he depart 

 ed this world before the brilliant plans, which 

 he had outlined, could be executed. 



And now, fellow students, we are about to go 

 forth into the world as professional men. 



Never before was the profession so in need of 

 true scientific pharmacists and there is surely 

 no reason why we as graduates of so noble and 

 lofty institution as the College of Pharmacy of 

 the City of New York should not lead in the 

 effort to restore our profession to that position 

 of trust and purity which it should justly com 

 mand. Let our object be not alone a pecuniary 

 one, but let us labor also for a nobler, a divine 

 purpose — to aid and benefit mankind. 



Classmates : — Two days hence and we shall 

 be together for the last time as a class ; but two 

 days more and we shall bid adieu to one another 

 and depart to our various homes. Some will 

 leave for the far West, for Utah, for Indiana, 

 some go to New England and others to the 

 South. 



How fruitful a source of pleasure it would be 

 to us, if we could all remain in this great city, 

 meeting frequently to renew our pledges of 

 friendship and to rehearse and dwell fondly on 

 the success and incidents of our college days. But 

 this cannot be. Our homes are distant and vast 

 stretches of territory must separate many of us 

 from those whose friendship we prized so dearly. 

 And yet we may rest assured that however dis- 

 tant we may be from each other, we will forget 

 neither the friends from whom we have parted 

 nor the Alma Mater from whose maternal arms 

 we have wrested ourselves with a triumph at 

 once glorious and tender. Absence can never 

 destroy the love a student bears his Alma Mater, 

 the Benign Mother to which he clung when 

 hope and ambition burned fiercely within him, 

 and though the distance which separates him 

 from the scene of his learning be indeed great, 

 the recollections of those days at college will 

 remain with him ever urging him on to nobler 

 deeds and loftier aspirations. 



We who remain in the vicinity of the college 

 will watch her progress with unswerving loyalty 

 and undiminished interest. We see in her 



remarkable development since her incorpora- 

 tion the basis for a still more wonderful growth, 

 we see her as an institution amongst the fore- 

 most in the land ; we see her as the incarnation 

 of idealism, her methods of instruction rivaling, 

 aye excelling those of any other similar institu- 

 tion in this broad country. 



That she may ever flourish and prosper, that 

 she may continue to grow in wealth and 

 influence is the prayer of all her graduates. It 

 is the sentiment which we, of the class of 

 ninety- four, pledge her here to-night. 



OUR FACULTY. 



BY NELSON S. KIRK. 



I am fortunately enabled this evening to con- 

 fine my remarks to a familiar honorable body, 

 our Faculty. I could devote considerable time 

 eulogizing these gentlemen, but as my fellow 

 Jerseyite, Mr. Kussey, is to be best man on this 

 occasion, I will concentrate my remarks q. s. 

 to allow him the opportunity to extinguish him- 

 self. 



Our Faculty, to which we have by this time 

 become quite attached, will in a few days sever 

 their connections with us as instructors to meet 

 hereafter as friends, and members of our honor- 

 able profession. No longer will we listen to 

 their familiar phrases as senior students but as 

 graduates, and I sincerely hope, both as post 

 graduate students and members of our Alumni 

 Association. 



Having had of late considerable experience 

 with these gentlemen, which I am pleased to 

 say resulted satisfactory to the majority of us, 

 I shall endeavor to throw the '94 search-light 

 upon them with a kindly hand. 



You, Dr. Chandler, have made a favorable 

 impression, long to be cherished and not soon 

 - to be forgotten, by your many jokes and inter- 

 esting lectures, especially the one on the Tri 

 Phenyl Rose Analines, of which, when con- 

 cluded, left several of us sufiering with symp- 

 toms analogous to saturnine paralysis. 



Dr. Rusby, we all know that you have been 

 unfortunate in your color reactions, but we 

 don't doubt in the least but that you will meet 

 with greater success in the new building. We 

 are, therefore, very sorry that Providence has 

 prevented us from being with you on those oc- 

 casions. 



Dr. Elliot, you have spoiled us. However, 

 you treated us so generous on your examina- 

 tions that we will forgive you for trying to teach 

 us that fish story, of their death, and resurrec- 

 tion in a Sb H3 solution. 



