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THE ALUMNI JOURNAL. 



The course of lectures for this year is 

 as interesting as that of last year. It is 

 somewhat different, however, in that 

 shop talk will not only be given. For 

 instance, the first lecture is to be given 

 by Robert Collyer, a man well known as 

 a preacher, lecturer, philanthropist and 

 patriot. A man who, long before many of 

 us who shall hear him were born, was 

 enjoying his prime and meriting a na- 

 tional — yes, an international reputation. 

 The subject of the first lecture is ''From 

 the anvil to the pulpit,'" and will doubtless 

 embody all those questions that arise to 

 the conscientious young man who is so 

 anxious to make his vocation sure; there- 

 fore we refrain from saying so much of 

 the man whose life and whose work is 

 resplendent with noble endeavors and 

 fruitful results. The Alumni Associa- 

 tion is to be heartily congratulated for 

 securing the services of the man who was 

 the friend of so many of the men who are 

 fast leaving us — ^like Oliver Wendell 

 Holmes, Whittier, George William Cur- 

 tis, James Russel Lowell, Alfred Tenny- 

 son, and the hosts who have been true to 

 principles when it cost to say which side 

 they were on. It does seem to us a rare 

 privilege to hear the man who is the very 

 personification of Henry Ward Beecher, 

 and who represents the class of men who 

 are going to the higher life and leave us 

 but their works to enkindle the flame of 

 promise and enthusiasm, that shall lead 

 us on to the high road of honor, truth and 

 principle. 



Within a short time it has dawned 

 upon us the great purpose and power of 

 the Alumni Association of the College of 

 Pharmacy of the City of New York. A 

 moment's reflection will show the deep 

 insight of the Alumni in securing this 

 great teacher for one lecture this winter. 

 The Association evidently realizes to the 

 fullest the remarks of Prof. Power (quoted 

 by Prof. Kremers, Alumni Tour., 1894, 



102) that : "The greatest need of phar- 

 macy to-day, as of other professions, is 

 men,2,nd^ by this I mean not only intelli- 

 gent and educated men, of whom we have 

 a good proportion; but those who have 

 sound and just convictions, which they 

 diXQ. fearless to express, and are willing to 

 openly confront the evils which tend tO' 

 nullify the best educational efforts, or even 

 undermine the very foundations upon 

 which all hope for progress may rest." 

 Unquestionably the greatest need to-day 

 is of men of character and convictions who 

 are not afraid to express what they know 

 to be wrong or right. In the State and 

 City of New York at this time this lack 

 is the cause of imminent peril to the 

 commonwealth. The great danger that 

 confronts us is liberality. We are not deci- 

 sive enough and on the plea of expediency 

 or fear, excuse much that we ought in 

 duty to denounce. It is highly probable 

 that in no other profession or business is 

 it so necessary at this time that a man 

 shall be a mail in the fullest sense of the 

 word, as in pharmacy. We are threatened 

 by unscrupulous men who are "like wolves 

 in sheep's clothing" and whose only end 

 is one of personal aggrandizement and 

 under whom many of us suffer. The 

 evil does not lie in that we do not know 

 our duty. For we do know on "which 

 side our bread is buttered" and "rather 

 than eat no bread at all we will be con- 

 tent with but half a loaf" And in taking 

 this position we do so in the most servile 

 and contemptible manner, that would 

 make those who came in the Mayflower 

 blush at our weakness and cowardice. 



It is not our purpose at this time to 

 call the attention of our readers to their 

 duty — but to express what we believe to- 

 be the motive power back of the Associ- 

 ation in the course of lectures that are to 

 be given under its auspices this season. 

 We believe the keynote to be in help- 

 ing to make men of the students and 



