THE JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY. 



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Dr. Molwitz and gentlemen, I 

 will only detain you a few moments. 

 At this time it is usual to give ad- 

 vice and I don't particularly care to 

 do that, but I want to recall some 

 things, some privileges that you 

 have had that "you hardly realize. 

 Dr. Warren spoke of the University 

 of the City of New York being 

 cramped down in Washington 

 Square. I want to call his atten- 

 tion and yours too to the further 

 fact that the College of Pharmacy 

 once occupied a couple of rooms in 

 that building, sir, and I had the 

 honor of being one of the assistants 

 in the College at that time. Co- 

 lumbia College was kind enough, 

 through the instrumentality of Pro- 

 fessor Chandler here, to lend us 

 the apparatus with which we made 

 the lectures. You, on the other 

 hand, have had well-equipped lab- 

 oratories, have had facilities second 

 to none in the world, none in Eng- 

 land or in Germany or in the United 

 States, not another college as well 

 fitted as the College in which you 

 have received instruction. I can 

 speak of that because I am not one of 

 the Faculty ; I have been put on 

 the shelf ; I am one of the ' ' has 

 beens." So I may say to 5^ou in 

 conjunction with that, these prizes 

 are given to you for practical work. 



That is all very true, but don't des- 

 pise theory. The lights that light 

 this building came from a little ex- 

 periment made by Michael Farraday 

 to find out the influence of a rotat- 

 ing magnet on a coil of wire. To- 

 day this large city is lighted by 

 innumerable engines and wires and 

 lights that came from that little 

 theoretical experiment. He wanted 

 to find out what those currents ro- 

 tating upon that magnet, what in- 

 fluence they were going to have on 

 a wire ; that is all. It is well 

 enough to say that was mere theory; 

 it grew to practical use afterwards. 



Then again, don't lose courage. 

 This is but the beginning. Maj^be 

 it is your first prize. It may be all, 

 and it may be that you will go for- 

 ward and be disappointed, perhaps ; 

 but don't lose courage. Be brave 

 and you will reach still higher stand- 

 ards, and always think of some ideal, 

 and don't despise theory, but keep 

 a good tight grip on practice. 



Entre Acte, "Passacalla," Gregh. 



Distribution of flowers. 



"Star Spangled Banner." 



Music by Seventh Regiment Band, 

 George L. Humphrey, bandmaster. 



Commencement Committee : Wil- 

 liam M. Massey, chairman ; Clar- 

 ence O. Bigelow, Reuben R. Smith, 

 Arthur C. Searles, George B. Wray. 



abstracts. 



Faiih Cure.— Charles Dudley Warner says that the difference between 

 the "faith cure " and the " mind cure " is that the mind cure doesn't re- 

 quire any faith, and the faith cure doesn't require any mind. — Albany 

 Medical Annals. 



