THE NEW YORK JOURNAL OF PHARMACY 



the College or professional school. 

 There is another call that life makes 

 to every one of them. There is 

 this imperative call of the profession, 

 the career, but there is another call 

 which life makes, the call which society 

 makes, the call which duty makes 

 to every one of them so to perfect and 

 develop himself that when the sum total 

 of his achievement is estimated the bal- 

 ance will be found on the side of high 

 intelligence and sound character. 



We rate the obligations of an Ameri- 

 can youth in terms of his opportunity. 

 If he has had little chance for prepara- 

 tion, we must not bear down too heavily 

 upon him in estimating his achievement, 

 but if he has had opportunity for a sound 

 discipline in the profession, if he has 

 had opportunity for association with 

 noble, learned and devoted teachers, if 

 he has had opportunity to come under 

 the influence of the leaders and guides 

 of a fine profession, then we have a 

 right to demand something exceptional 

 from him. And you will be required to 

 account for the one talent, but for the 

 ten here which the College of Pharmacy 

 has placed in your possession. You will 

 be required to give account of these ten 

 talents not alone as pharmacists, but as 

 men and women. You will be judged 

 by the place that you take in your com- 

 munity. You will be judged by the 

 standards that you set for your asso- 

 ciates. You will be judged by the acts 

 to which you rise in the society of 

 which you are a member and there is no 

 possible way through which, by which 

 that obligation can be escaped. The tal- 

 ents are yours ; they have been given 

 with freedom and devotion ; the account- 

 ing must be yours. And because of the 

 confidence which your elders have that 



you have been carefully selected for this 

 work by an entrance test, that you have 

 completed the rigorous scientific course 

 of study with success, as a result of 

 which they are willing to certify to their 

 confidence in your future. 



The School of Pharmacy cannot be 

 manned forever by those who guide its 

 destinies to-day. They pass and succes- 

 sors come to take their places. These 

 successors will be chosen _ from your 

 ranks and from those who have preceded 

 and who will follow you. The reputation 

 of this College is now nearly a century 

 old, the work that it has been doing and 

 hopes to continue to do is your work and 

 the obligation, the opportunity and the 

 ambition to continue the New York Col 

 lege of Pharmacy and its plans must be 

 yours. You have received your degree, 

 you have received your certificates be- 

 cause of the confidence of this body ot 

 ciders that up to that obligation and up 

 to that opportunity you will certainly 

 live. I wish to add my word of confi- 

 dence to theirs and to bid you God-speed 

 and all success in putting your hand tc 

 the practical work of life. 



THE EIGHTY-FOURTH COM- 

 MENCEMENT. 



The Eighty-fourth Annual Commence 

 ment of the College of I'harmacy wa£ 

 held at Carnegie Hall, on Thursda) 

 evening, May 14th, 191 4. 



The stage of Carnegie Hall was beau 

 tifully decorated with fiowers and palms 

 and \'an Baar's Military Band, dressed 

 in uniforms of white and gold, added to 

 the beauty of the picture. At eight 

 o'clock sharp the orchestra started the 

 proceedings with the Jubel — Overture by 

 Weber. President Butler, the Trustees 



