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THE ALUMNI JOURNAL. 



T^cpior Gl^ss Notes. 



EXCURSION. 



It was indeed a jolly crowd that started out 

 from the college Thursday morning, December 

 2 1st, and, with colors conspicuously worn, 

 wended their way to the Chambers street ferry 

 on their way to the fair realms of Jersey. 



The occasion was the annual outing of the 

 senior class to the factories of Seabury & 

 Johnson and E. R. Squibb & Sons. When the 

 boat having the students on board reached the 

 other shore, their ranks were re enforced by 

 others of the class who had awaited their arrival 

 at the railroad station. 



It was but the wait of a few minutes before 

 the train started, and after a ride of half an hour 

 it drew up at East Orange, only a short distance 

 from the works of Seabury & Johnson. Upon 

 arriving there the class separated into two sec- 

 tions and the students were shown through all 

 the various departments. They first entered 

 the room where the extract of belladonna is 

 prepared. Here the still and the huge percola- 

 tors were a source of general interest. They 

 were then shown successively the assay room, 

 the cotton room where the crude material is 

 made absorbent, the department devoted to the 

 making of plaster masses and the spreading of 

 the same, the engine room and other places of 

 minor importance, to the finishing department. 



There seemed to be a strange magnetism 

 existing about the last named department ; the 

 boys lingered therein until the train was due 

 and were then loathe to depart. 



Some of them even rendered valuable (?) 

 assistance to the ladies employed there. 



At 12.23 the return train left, and, with the 

 boys exuberant over the pleasant experiences 

 of the morning, the trip back to New York was 

 attended with a continual flow of joviality. 

 Arriving at New York the students marched in 

 a body over the bridge to Brooklyn, where, after 

 dining, they assembled at the works of E. R. 

 Squibb & Sons. Here, while passing through 

 the various departments, the wonderful pro- 

 gress in modern pharmacy and chemistry 

 became more and more manifest. Among the 

 many interesting attractions were the prepara- 

 tion of fluid extracts, the method of repercola- 

 tion, the preparation of the various chemical 

 compounds, the store room for crude drugs, 

 etc. 



The students left Brooklyn well satisfied and 

 considerably enlightened upon the intricacies 



involved in the wholesale manufacture of phar- 

 maceutical products. 



The students of the Philadelphia College of 

 Pharmacy being in New York at the time, they 

 having also visited the two factories, a commit- 

 tee was sent to them inviting them to attend a 

 theatrical performance with our boys in the 

 evening. 



They immediately accepted the invitation and 

 a very pleasant evening was spent in this man- 

 ner. 



To conclude it may be stated that every 

 member of the class of '94 returned home that 

 night well satisfied with the manner in which 

 he had spent the day. 



On Monday, January 3d, the seniors entered 

 the homestretch; it was a very busy day and 

 was divided into two sessions. The morning 

 being devoted to Dr. Rusby's department, which 

 continues to get more and more interesting. 

 January 8lh, found us at the subject of flow- 

 ers and herbs, which necessitated the use of 

 our simple microscope, but having had consider- 

 able experience in that line, and being now 

 microscopists we handled the subject with little 

 difficulty. 



The reading of the Inorganic Chemistry 

 ratings on the 12th resulted satisfactory to the 

 majority of us, very few below fifty. 



Of the making of plasters one thing may be 

 said to our advantage, andthatis: we thorough- 

 ly learned the modus operandi while on our 

 excursion last month, and it is highly probable 

 that the finished product resulted in a good 

 mark to many. When we were assigned the 

 work there was a restricted applause, owing to 

 our regard for the craniums of our fellow 

 students in the room below and not wishing 

 to loc 3n any of the "hard finish." 



Mr. Wurthmann, our former secretary, 

 succeeded admirably well in passing the city 

 board's last examination. 



During the month of December the senior 

 class held two interesting meetings. At the 

 first of these, held on Dec. 8th, the election of 

 officers took place which, after some spirited 

 contests resulted in the selection of the follow- 

 ing candidates: 



For President, Peter J. Ehrgott ; vice-presi- 

 dent, Frank L. Wilcox ; treasurer, Albert 

 Home ; secretary, Emil F. Imhof. 



At a meeting held Thursday, Dec. 21st, the 

 following resolutions were adopted ; 



Whereas, Messrs. Seabury & Johnson and 

 Messrs, E. R. Squibb & Sons, with their cus_ 



