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THE NEW YORK JOURNAL OF PHARMACY 



preciated, have shown the highest type 

 of college spirit. 



All of us ought to follow and take 

 personal interest in the efforts of these 

 men and feel proud of their achieve- 

 ments. 



Shall we be indifferent and keep 

 these facts guarded as secrets, as we 

 have done heretofore, or shall we en- 

 courage and honor such men? 



If there is any man who feels that 

 he could represent Columbia in any 

 branch of athletics, the faculty and 

 surely, the student body would be or 

 should be willing to at least pay that 

 man's gymnasium fee of $7 per year, 

 which every Columbia man must pay 

 before he has the privilege of using 

 the Gym. 



For information come to Journal 

 office. Columbia papers on hand. 



YE SENIORS. 



The Seniors of to-day will be the 

 graduates of to-morrow and at that 

 time, most likely, scattered to the four 

 corners of the earth. 



Then and not until then will you 

 fully realize what the College of 

 Pharmacy, your friends and also your 

 classmates mean to you. But then it 

 is too late, you lose connection with 

 the College and gradually your friends 

 and classmates drop from view and 

 you have to choose new friends and 

 new associates, never hearing — far less 

 seeing your classmates again. 



Think this over and if you dis- 

 agree — ask some one who has been 

 through the mill. If you agree, ask 

 yourself how it can be remedied. 



It is upon this question I wish to 

 offer a few humble suggestions and to 



ask the members of the senior class to 

 bring forward some suggestions and 

 invoke some class spirit, tljat will help 

 to hold and bind together the class of 

 1914 of the New York College of 

 Pharmacy, so when we each take our 

 various ways, we may still be in con- 

 nection with our fellow classmates. 



I therefore offer the suggestion to 

 hold a special class meeting for that 

 purpose. 



I also advocate that the class make 

 arrangements to hold a banquet every 

 five years — or still better every year. 

 In so doing it will enable the meriibers 

 of the class to renew their fellowships 

 with their classmates. 



No doubt the majority of the class, 

 upon reading this, will say it is im- 

 possible, but I wish to say that it is 

 far from impossible. To the writer's 

 personal knowledge there is one class 

 and only one class that has held to- 

 gether the members of its class after 

 graduation. That class still has its 

 annual banquet and no small attend- 

 ance at its reunions either. It is no 

 other than the Blizzard class of 1888 

 of the N. Y. College of Pharmacy — of 

 which our esteemed Dr. Diekman is 

 a member. 



Although I have not interviewed Dr. 

 Diekman personally, upon this subject, 

 I am sure he would help the class of 

 1914 to carry out the same plan that 

 his class has so successfully done for 

 these past 26 years, namely, the annual 

 banquet. 



My final suggestion is for each 

 member of the class to think these 

 things over and then to act upon them 

 as an entire class or not at all. For I 

 believe in the old maxim "United we 

 stand — Divided we fall." 



L. N. BROWN, '14. 



