THE NEW YORK. JOURNAL OF PHARMACY 



been in the student body. Sometimes, 

 in the early history of the institution, a 

 majority of the class had not the neces- 

 sary training to fit them for performing 

 the work of the course, whereas a string- 

 ent law and a watchful state education 

 department now prevent the admission of 

 such students. 



With all these improvements, and con- 

 sequent upon them, one adverse influence 

 has become more strongly active, namely, 

 that of negligent habits on the part of 

 the students. Necessity is the mother of 

 invention. When students had poor fa- 

 cilities and little help, they, or such of 

 them as were earnest seekers after 

 knowledge, devised their own means of 

 getting information and training. This 

 cultivated in them the spirit of determi- 

 nation, the quality of self-reliance, the 

 habit of industry. Their employers felt 

 the necessity of seconding the work of 

 the school and gave them individual 

 assistance. Now the student comes to 

 the College with an educational golden 

 sDoon in his mouth. Rich in the means of 

 learning, he is tempted to do as does the 

 boy who is rich in money, neglect to put 

 forth those individual efforts which alone 

 can make everyone strong and capable. 

 If it is as easy for a camel to go through 

 the eye of a needle as for a rich man to 

 enter into the kingdom, it is equally diffi- 

 cult for a student rich in all the facilities 

 of education to become a good grubber. 

 My message to all of our students is an 

 adjuration to resist this tendency; to re- 

 member that in all character formation 

 and professional preparation the strug- 

 gle and the efifort are purely individual. 

 You cannot work through on the respon- 

 sibility of any other. You must be 3^our 

 own maker ! 



H. H. RusBY. 



DR. GEO. C. DIEKMAN 



PROFESSOR OF PHARMACY 



On behalf of the Department of Phar- 

 macy it is my pleasure and privilege to 

 extend a hearty and sincere welcome to 

 the members of the several classes now 

 in attendance at our college. 



To the members of the incoming 

 classes, University and College, I extend 

 a hearty greeting, coupled with the wish 

 and desire to aid and assist each one of 

 them, should opportunity present itself 

 to so do. They have shown good judg- 

 ment in selecting our college as the me- 

 dium for obtaining their professional 

 knowledge. They have also shown that 

 their object is to obtain a professional 

 education, most thorough in kind, rather 

 than merely obtaining a degree without 

 the requisite knowledge to support this. 

 The facilities offered by our college, to 

 aid them in their obejct, are second to 

 none, and that each student shall profit 

 therefrom to the very limit, is our aim 

 and desire. 



