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mencement Exercises we are assembled time ! If the oportunities are greater 



here to-night. In place of that little at this time, so are the responsibilities 



room in the New York Dispensary, the greater. No opportmiity comes to any- 



College now occupies its great and one at any time that does not bring 



splendid building, equipped with men ^i^h it its special responsibilities, 



and laboratories and library and every- ^j^^^^ ^^^ troubled times, and it may 



thing that shall contribute to good and ^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^.^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ 



the future of the men and women who ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^ ^j^^ ^^^j^ 



are to practice this profession. It was responsibilities that have not been 



a day that saw the beginning of the ^j^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ forebears. If it comes, 



United States. The whole population ^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^ circumstances it may 



of the United States in 1831 was only ^^^j^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^^ ^.^.^^^ ^,j^_ 



a little more than twice the population . „, . . . , 



i- ^ glance. This is vour country, and 



of this great City to-day. Those great u ^u u u 



*=» •^, ^, . TVT-1 whether you have been born here, or 



cities of the middle west, Chicago, Mil- -^ • ^, , , r , . • 



, „ ° , , ^ It is the land of your adoption, you owe 



waukee, Minneapolis and St. Faul, let . a ^ 1 4. 



' . . , T. -r /- 0. it an undivided allegiance. And let 



alone those cities on the Pacific Coast, ,, . , r ,, 1 



_ ^ . ,01 ^ there be, men and women 01 the gradu- 



hke San Francisco and Seattle were not j- •, 1 1, • • 



_, . J o. ^ T-1 ating class, no divided allegiance in 



on the map of the United States. There , ' , , r 



. , ^ r ^, r , your duty toward vour chosen proies- 



were only twenty-eight of the forty- •'. ^/ , ; ^ 



. , ^ , sion. You have chosen as your own 



eight states that we have to-day. . . , -^ . 



particular part, one of the most import- 



A great many of the modern things ^^^ ^^ ^j^^ professions. There is a great 

 we teach did not exist in 1831. The tj-inity of professions to which you be- 

 first railroad in the United States had ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^j^j^j^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ j^^^^ 



yet to be built. There was no tele- members— Medicine and Surgerv and 

 graph and such things as the electric pharmacy-and pharmacv is the sup- 

 light and the phonograph and the tele- ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^.^^^ ^^^^^ ^^j^^^ ^^^^^ p^^_ 

 phone had not yet been thought of by ^^^^-^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^. ^,^^^^ ^^^.^^ .^^ ^^^ j^^^_ 

 man. A recent historian of the his- 



tory of the United States has called 

 attention to these early years of the 



pitals and clinics what you must finish. 



Mr. Thomas F. Main, Secretarv of 



, ,, . the College, then presented the mem- 



•^os as the springtime of the nation, r ^u j \.- 1 jo 



^ 1 1 T bers of the graduating class and Fro- 



when things began to take shape. I ^^^^ Carpenter conferred upon them 



say these things merely to point out ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^ Graduate in Pharmacy, 



to you what changes have taken place ^^^ j-^^ ^^ graduates will be found on 



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institution. I do it to point out that j^^^^ -^^^^^^^ ^^^^. presented Alfred 



your institution has developed with pj^,^ ^^^^ Bertram C. Steves, with cer- 



the institutions of the country; with tificates of proficiency as Food and 



the country itself. How much greater Drug Analysts. 



are the opportunities to-day as it stands The following address to the gradu- 



before you men and women of the grad- ates was delivered by Mr. Justice 



uating class than were those of that Thomas C. T. Crain. 



