THE ALUMNI JOURNAL. 



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Published under the auspices of the 



Alumni Association of the College of Pharmacy 



OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, 



115=119 WEST 6Sth STREET. 



Vol. II. 



February r, 1895. 



No. 2. 



The Alumni Journal will be published Monthly. 

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EDITOR, 

 HENRY KRAEMER, PH. G. 



ASSISTANT EDITORS. 



FRED. HOHENTHAL, Ph. G. 

 K. C. MAHEGIN, PH. G. 



ASSOCIATE EOITOBS, 



CHARLES RICE, Ph. I) 



11 \RLES F. CHANDLER, Ph. D., M. D , L.L.D., etc. 



ARTHUR H. ELLIOTT, Ph. D., K. C. S. 



HENRY H. RTJSBY, M. D. 

 VIRGIL COBLENTZ, A. M., Ph. G., Ph. D. 



THE ABILITY OF CONSTRUCTION. 



At this stage of the world's history 

 men of ability and even of genius in a 

 certain sense are not rare. The result is 

 that in all of our institutions of learning 

 the requirements become more stringent 

 and by the time graduation arrives we 

 see the survival of only the very best 

 men. We find the same classes of men 

 throughout life that we find in college — 



we find men of energy and slothiulness, 

 men devoted to pleasures and by nature 

 politicians, men of ability of construction 

 and men of power in criticism. While at 

 College the training to day is chiefly ana- 

 lytical and the result is that men are 

 prone to examine everything closely and 

 some even learn to take delight in tearing 

 things to pieces. There are some men 

 who are utterly ruined so far as their in- 

 ward happiness and that of those about 

 them is concerned by their critical ten- 

 dencies. They do this to the detriment 

 of their own energies and abilities of 

 construction and hence never or but sel- 

 dom build anything, but employ their 

 days in tearing down what others have 

 built. The critic is necessary and essen- 

 tial in every department of labor where 

 human thought is allowed entrance. 

 Criticisms that are honest always help 

 the builder and are a gain to posterity. 



It is questionable if it is desirable for 

 the conscientious young man to encour- 

 age in his life a too critical tendency. It 

 is not necessary to look at the bright side 

 of the affairs of life, or even to look upon 

 men charitably, so to speak. It is suf- 

 ficient for every young man especially to 

 look upon events of life as they are. It 

 is decidedly important for the man of 

 aspiration to look upon life with its duties 

 when he has had sufficient rest and food 

 and exercise. Wrongs may be righted 

 and errors corrected in but two ways : 

 the thoughttul way and the thoughtless 

 way. The thoughtful way is always 

 attendant of health and with a broad 

 minded and large hearted individual. 

 It is not our desire, however, to dwell too 

 long upon the subject in the abstract as 

 we are anxious to reprint the closing 

 words of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge's 

 Phi Beta Kappa oration delivered last 

 June at Harvard College. He said in 

 closing : 



" How then is a university to reach the 



