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Members of the Graduating Class : gine, he must be at all times prepared 



I congratulate you in the name of to measure up to the responsibilities of 



your assembled friends who have ^^is callmg. 



watched with interest and pride the The lights are lowered in the drug 

 successful pursuit and successful ter- store. It is that quiet hour between 

 mination of your honorable and ardu- midnight and morning. The busy day 

 ous course of study. I congratulate is over and the clerk who has gradu- 

 you in the name of a public that is in- ated from the school of pharmacy is 

 terested in the successful pursuit by alone in the store. He has begun to 

 you of the honorable profession upon take the merited and desired sleep after 

 which you are now about to actively a day of hard and exacting labor and 

 enter. You have acquired the learning when his slumber is perhaps of the 

 of the books and your success in life deepest, the night bell rings. He rises 

 will now be particularly dependent in the dimly lighted store, opens the 

 upon that preparedness which is a door and finds himself confronted with 

 moral preparedness : the preparedness the agitated foreign maid servant who 

 of character. If, coupled with the bears in her hand a prescription, ask- 

 learning that you have acquired, you ing him in language hardly to be un- 

 measure up to the responsibilities of derstood that he shall fill it then and 

 the calling that you have entered there. A human life depends upon the 

 upon, then you may look back upon care in which the very simple act is 

 this night as the opening night of a performed. Drowsiness must be ban- 

 career of success in the very best ished, lights must be turned up. The 

 sense of the word, because there is no bottle must be carefully seen. The 

 true success that is not based upon a label must be fully read. Nothing must 

 measuring up to the responsibilities of be taken for granted. Every sense 

 one's position and I am minded to- must be employed in the distinguish- 

 night that we are all more or less de- ment of the medicines. All intelli- 

 pendent for safety and sometimes even gence must be given to the making of 

 for life upon the intelligent discharge the compound. If. by any chance, there 

 of duty by our fellow men ; the care is something in the prescription that 

 that they bring to their allotted tasks ; raises a doubt as to whether it was 

 the training that they have had for its in point of fact intended, he must use 

 successful discharge. The engineer on the telephone, ring up the prescribing 

 the moving train, if the lives of the pas- doctor and leave no stone unturned to 

 sengers are to be reasonably safe, must see that everything is properly done. A 

 be a trained man. He must look, he few blocks ofif an anxious father and 

 must listen, he must be at every turn mother stand at the bedside of a seem- 

 vigilant. He must hear the bell when ingly dying child. They have, at the 

 it rings, he must see the lights when behest of the trained nurse sent out 

 they shine, he must distinguish be- hurriedly to the pharmacy and the life 

 tween the red and the green, he must of the child is primarily dependent not 

 understand the mechanism of the en- upon the skill of an absent doctor, not 



