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be long before we shall want another 

 building, better equipped and larger 

 and with greater facilities for the 

 education of the numbers that ap- 

 ply for admission," (Applause) and 

 I venture to hope that this was not 

 merely the expression of a wish, 

 but that it was a prophecy of a 

 quickly coming future. 



And here, ladies and gentlemen 

 of the graduating class, I want to 

 say to you not only that we con- 

 gratulate you in the name of the 

 public, with all sincerity and our 

 very heartiest congratulation, upon 

 your success, and present position, 

 we are proud to know you and glad 

 to be honored by permission of your 

 President to address you ; but I 

 want also to offer you the expres- 

 sion of this truth for your considera- 

 tion, that it is upon your future ef- 

 forts and success that not only your 

 own personal success in life depends, 

 but the growth and the enlargement 

 and the enhanced interest of the 

 public and the support of the pub- 

 lic, towards your Alma Mater, the 

 College of Pharmacy. (Applause.) 

 It is, my friends, just in proportion 

 as these and the other members of 

 the College, who have gone forth 

 in earlier years, show to us the 

 necessity for such a college, that 

 we of the public will not be lack- 

 ing in coming forward to the sup- 

 port of it. May I not say so in 

 your name? May I not say that 

 every one of us will take an in- 

 terest not only in the individual 

 candidate who is now a graduate, 

 but also in that college from whence 

 he graduated and got his first start 



start in life, which perhaps opened 

 to him the very first step upwards 

 on the ladder of fame ? Won't you 

 help to support it ? I would say, 

 ladies and gentlemen, graduates, do 

 you show us the brains, we'll fur- 

 nish the cash. (Applause.) Do 

 you show us the increased demand 

 that your superior knowledge pro- 

 duces, and we will be happy to 

 supply the funds which shall satisfy 

 it. It rests with 3'ou to make the 

 College of Pharmacy so important 

 to the City of New York that 

 money shall flow in from every 

 quarter to enable the Faculty to 

 give it every requirement and sup- 

 ply every demand upon its educa- 

 ional ability. 



I would venture also to say that 

 this age in which we live is an age 

 of revelation, not of mysteries. The 

 knowledge of pharmacy has gone 

 far and far away from the noisome 

 mixtures of the witches caldron, 

 and from the dark investigations of 

 the old alchemists. It has gone a 

 great way beyond that, and it re- 

 quires in these days to exhibit rev- 

 elations and discoveries of the deep- 

 est secrets of nature hidden away in 

 herb and tree ; requires secrets to be 

 made known and not to be retained 

 and kept locked up in the nostrums 

 of the proprietors of the secret 

 preparations of self-styled special- 

 ists. We want discoveries. Start 

 forward upon'that career. Show us 

 that you are men and women with 

 large and liberal ideas ; that you 

 have a desire to investigate ; that 

 you appreciate the dignity of deep 

 research. Show us that you are 



