THE ALUMNI JOURNAL, 



169 



Published under the auspices of the 



Alumni Associatioo of tlie Collep of Pharmacy 



OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, 



115=119 WEST 68th STREET. 



Vol. T. 



November i, 1894. 



No. 7. 



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THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION. 



Henry Ward Beecher was invited, 

 shortly after the war, to deliver a lecture 

 in the Academj^ of Music of Richmond. 

 Naturally, because of his well-known in- 

 fluence in England for the preservation 

 of the Union, the people crowded the hall 

 almost beyond its capacit}'. With that 

 matchless power which he possessed in 

 reading his audience, and the^tact that was 

 his alone of inspiring his hearers and car- 

 rying them with him, on being introduc- 

 ed he said something like this : " From 

 the numerous engravings which I have 

 seen, I believe I see before me the face of 

 General Robert E. Lee, against whom and 

 whose cause my powers have been used for 

 some years, but before whom and this peo- 



ple to-night I stand as a friend, and as a 

 friend I extend my hand and ask him to 

 accept it." For a moment there was 

 tlie utmost stillness (the silence can but 

 be imagined) then the great General arose 

 and accepted the hand of the friend at-nid 

 the applause expressing the gratitude and 

 the friendship of the Southern people. 

 So the Alumni Association each year 

 extends to all of the graduates of the 

 New York College of Pharmacy and the 

 students e.specially its outstretched hand 

 and says, " I am your friend, will 

 you accept my hand?" 



At the beginning of another year the 

 Alumni Association of the College of 

 Pharmacy of the City of New York offers 

 a special course of lectures, which are 

 highly instructive and intended for the 

 purpose of bringing together in closer 

 fellowship the students with the mem- 

 bers of the Alumni and the college. 

 Heretofore the students hardly had 

 the time or the occasion to meet 

 the graduates save at commencement 

 time. This lack of social intercourse and 

 consequent growth of the as.sociation has 

 been so perceptible to those members that 

 are always pushing ahead, that they de- 

 cided that this course of lectures would 

 best educate and cultivate a strong 

 membership for the great work that is 

 entrusted to them by their Alma Mater. 

 Each alumnus is the custodian of a 

 privilege and a duty to unite with his 

 fellows in assisting the students and the 

 college in a manner that only an Alumni 

 Association can. The Alumni Association 

 is all that an institution possesses to show 

 the real value of that institution. Gradu- 

 ates of well recognized institutions are 

 uniting with their degrees the name of 

 the institution from which they obtained 

 the same. It is a well known fact in his- 

 tory that these institutions alone are 

 handed down to us whose alumni have 

 been strong and steadfast . 



