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its graduates shall rank of social is upon the face of all the earth, and 



standing, equal to other graduates, every tree, in which is the fruit of a 



equal also to the commissioned of- tree yielding seed ; and to you it 



ficers in both services, the Army shall be for meat." 



and the Navy. So, my friends, you may go back, 



These, ladies and gentlemen, are then, to the very earliest days of 



achievements of the College of Phar- earth's existence for your charter, 



macy that speak for themselves. You may find your first Professor, 



You belong to no miserable, small, Adam. You may find your first 



petty, hidden, obscure institution of herbarium in the Garden of Eden, 



learning, but to a college that can a larger, a grander, a more beauti- 



hold its head up proudly with all ful, a more striking, a more impres- 



the other colleges as doing work sive, but at the same time perhaps 



equal (Applause), as doing work as not a much more elaborate one than 



important, aye as doing work much you can find in the College of Phar- 



more necessary to the public weal, macy in 68th street. You can find 



than perhaps some of the older es- also the first girl graduate, sweet 



tablishments, than some branches girl graduate, Eve, whom I presume 



even of the universities, for upon you will all of you acknowledge to 



the work of these ladies and gentle- have been the "first girl of her 



men, these graduates to-night, de- class." 



pends the health and strength and Now I would dearly like, if I 



growth and the very life it may be had the time and the opportunity, 



of yourselves and of your children, just to draw for you a little ac- 



I ventured to say just now that the count and detailed sketch of the 

 College of Pharmacy was amongst history of the College of Pharmacy 

 the oldest colleges on record. My from the time of its original founda- 

 dear friends, am I not right in say- tion in 1829, up to its present con- 

 ing that it draws its charter from dition in its present buildings, well 

 an age far antecedent to that which equipped and fully established in 

 any other university can boast ? It 68th Street ; but neither the time 

 draws its charter from a higher po- nor the patience of my audience 

 tentate and authority than any who will permit me to do it. But there 

 by their sign manual ever chartered is one thing I would like to be per- 

 any other university ; for is it not mitted to say, and that is, that 

 so that the charter of the College of whilst being shown over that Col- 

 Pharmacy is to be found written in lege with its magnificent class- 

 the oldest of all books that any of rooms and its extensive laboratories, 

 you knows or any one of you has furnished with everything neces- 

 read ? For in the very first chapter sary for present modern conditions 

 of the Book of Genesis these words of Pharmaceutical study, I heard 

 are written : " Behold I have given these words drop from one professor 

 you every herb bearing seed, which to another : " I don't think it can 



