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graduates. We have, as Prof. Power 

 claims, a fair amount of educated and in- 

 telligent pharmacists, but we have not 

 enough men — men of character that are 

 strong like the Pilgrims, andWashington, 

 Franklin, Holmes, and others. We need 

 to come more and more in touch with such 

 men, and therefore the Alumni Associa- 

 tion in the beginning of this course has 

 secured one of the few living representa- 

 tives of these men who knew what it was 

 to have a purpose and " through thick 

 and thin" to stand by that purpot>e re- 

 gardless whether it pays or not, and who 

 in the strength of this conviction and in 

 the light of truth have gone on to the 

 perfect day. We cannot lay too great 

 stress upon the development of character 

 in the student and the necessity of the 

 formation of a man in connection with 

 his work. The greatest privilege to the 



fort. True hope is based on it — and it is 

 hope that gives the real perfume to life. 

 There is a fine heraldic motto on a broken 

 helmet in Battle Abbey, "Iv'espoir est ma 

 force, "which might be the motto of every 

 man's life. " Woe unto him that is faint- 

 hearted," says the son of Si rach. There is, 

 indeed, no blessing equal to the posses- 

 sion of a stout heart. Even if a man fails in 

 his efforts, it will be a satisfaction to him 

 to enjoy the consciousness of having done 

 his best. In humble life nothing can be 

 more cheering and beautiful than to ste 

 a man combating suffering by patience, 

 triumphing in his integrity, and who 

 when his feet are bleeding and his limbs 

 failing him, still rallies up his courage." 

 On another page is given the list of 

 lectures for this season. Later we shall 

 again speak of this course and the lect- 

 urers. At this time it seemed desirable 



student is to be permitted to enter into the to bring the attention of the readers to this 

 private laboratory of his teacher, who is a work of the Association in founding this 

 man. We are losing sight ofthis side of our Lecture Course and appeal to the heart 



and the reason of all to assist in every 

 manner the work of the Alumni Associa- 

 tion of the College of Pharmacy. It is 

 certainly a work which is well fitted to 

 carry out and we do hope that all can 

 secure seats to listen to the first lecture 

 by Rev. Robert Collyer. 



educational work and do not realize that 

 the formation of one ma7i out of a class 

 of a ICO or more graduating students 

 may be suflScient to assist us in remedy- 

 ing the evils that confront us. For as 

 Longfellow says: 



"Be noble and the nobleness that lies in other 



men, 

 Sleeping but never dead, will rise in majesty to 



meet thin own." 

 We believe with the Alumni Associa- 

 tion in the cultivation of character and 

 we believe only in the definition of genius 

 as expressed by Emerson* ' ' the power of 

 taking infinite pains." The energy that 

 can be so concentrated upon one's voca- 

 tion that he can see the wrong and taken principally from Dettmer's ''Pflanzen 

 eliminate it ; cultivate the good and in- physiologischeti Prakticum:' 



NEW LITERATURR.* 



Botany. 



Anleitung zurbotanischen Beobachhmgen und 

 pflanzenphysiologischen Experimenten. — F. 

 Schleichert, 26 Aufl. i,angensatza; H. Beyer u, 

 Sohne. 



A work for the aid of the teacher in school 

 instruction. It treats especially of biology and 

 plant physiology and contains 54 illustrations 



Spire the hearts of all men. "Energy of 

 will may be defined to the very central 

 power of character in a man — in a word 

 it is the Man himself. It gives impulse 

 to his every action and soul to every ef- 



* Quotation from memory. 



Atlas der officinellen Pflanzen. — Berg u. 

 Schmidt. 2te verbesserte Auflage. Lief. 12 u. 13 

 Leipzig : A. Felix, 



* Readers desiring any of the works contained in this 

 list can obtain them through B. Westerman & Co., 812 

 Broadway, Gustav E. Stechert, 810 Broadway, or other 

 foreign booksellers. 



