THE A L UMM JO URN A L . 



PERSONALS. 



Our president, Mr. C. W. Hitchcock, has 

 been confined to the house for the past few 

 days by a severe attack of grip. 



G. Ford Sutorius, our genial secretary, is 

 '•in training" for crew work. It is understood 

 that Mr. Sutorius will row in some of the crack 

 crews the coming summer. 



Many thanks are due the editors and stafi" of 

 The Alumni Journal for giving the students 

 the initial numlaer free of charge, and it should 

 be treasured by every student, as it is the first 

 paper of its kind ever issued by the New York 

 College of Pharmacy. 



Messrs. Thomas P. and Charles C. Heffiey, 

 class '95, have engaged in the drug business at 

 207 Park avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



All Juniors who have not procured their 

 college button, should order one at once from 

 the class treasurer, Mr. J. P. Lavalye. 



A NUMBER of the Junior Class attended the 

 commencement exercises of the New York 

 College of Dentistry at Chickering Hall, Tues- 

 day evening, March 13, 1894. 



Pharmacy Quiz. — Prof. — "Now, Mr. H , 



why should you use two 'ms' in the word 

 'gramme?' " Student: — "Because if you use 

 only one 'm' there might be a 'fly-speck' on 

 the paper, and it would be mistaken for a 

 grain. 



STUDENT'S LIFE IN NEW YORK. 



By clarence W. HITCHCOCK. 



New York offers to ambitious students multi- 

 tudious advantages for 3tudy. As an educational 

 center it clearly outranks any of the American 

 cities. This claim is justified not only by the 

 vast numbers, but by the excellent quality and 

 great variety of its institutions of learning. 



Its unsurpassed system of public schools em- 

 ploying about 4,500 teachers, and embracing 

 practical as well as industrial features, afford 

 instruction to over 300,000 children; while to its 

 colleges and universities flock maturer students 

 from every state and every country. 



Of New York's 1,500,000 bustling inhabitants 

 perhaps 15,000 are out-of town students attend- 

 ing the higher colleges. Dispersed throughout 

 the great residential district, however, this large 

 number is swallowed up in the myriads of busi- 

 ness men, craftsmen and artisans comprising its 

 cosmopolitan population, and no distinctly de- 

 fined "student quarter " exists, as in the cities 

 of Europe. In boarding-houses large congre- 

 gations of students are sometimes found forming 

 harmonious families. 



The natural bond existing between the stu- 

 dents here has been productive of the organiza- 

 tion of the "Students' Movement," or the 

 students' branch of the Y. M. C A.— a social 

 club, offering many attractive features to its 

 members. In short, through the medium of 

 this "movement" student life in the great city 

 is made immeasurably more pleasant and profit- 

 able than it would otherwise be. 



CONTENTS. PAGE 



Observations of a Pharmacognosist in England, H. H. Rusby 49 



American Pharmaceutical Association 5^ 



The Supplement. — Editorial 59 



Ipecacuanha, — Editorial 59 



The Pharmacist and His Education, A. H. Elliott 61 



Our Metric Standards and Unit, W. Hallock — 63. 



The Most Recent Work. — 65 



New Literature. 



68 



College Notes — ^9 



Summer Course in Botany 7o 



Our Graduates 7o 



Senior Class Notes 7o 



Junior Class Notes 7i 



Students' Life in New York 7^ 



