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established product of the highest authority, 

 aud that they will discourage, as far as possible, 

 the professional use of quack medicines, and 

 save you your time, your money and your life, 

 and another very virtuous thing I notice, ladies 

 and gentlemen, that they distinctly repudi- 

 ate the brokerage processes so well known 

 in some of our professions. They distinctly 

 repudiate the practice of allowing physicians a 

 percentage on their prescriptions as derogatory 

 to their profession and unprofessional. And 

 again, since the professional training of the 

 pharmacist does not include those branches 

 which enable the physician to diagnose and 

 treat diseases, they shall in all practicable cases 

 decline to give medical advice, and refer the 

 applicant to a regular physician. Again, and 

 here I strike its scholastic feature for which I 

 plead and claim that we have come to that 

 place, and long since have come to it in Ameri- 

 can education, where to meet the demands 

 made upon our American life, we must have spec- 

 ial schools of instruction in special departments, 

 it has come to that pitch that not everyone 

 who is determined to be a teacher, can be a 

 teacher, and I would echo along another line, 

 remarks made by Prof. Chandler, and would 

 allow not only no druggists to dispense medicine 

 without he was thoroughly educated and had 

 the seal of a well establisUed institution upon his 

 diploma. I would echo that along another line, 

 and if I had my way, I would allow no teacher 

 to go into the public schools of the United States 

 without they had behind them, the authority, 

 not only of law, but the authority of a well 

 regulated and honorable institution, qualifying 

 them, stating that they were qualified for the 

 high office of instructor in any particular branch. 

 And here is one item of the code of ethics. "The 

 growing demands of the age," say this faculty, 

 "require that those who follow the profession of 

 pharmacy, should be educated up to a higher 

 standard, and therefore, we consider it our duty 

 individually and collectively to encourage the 

 advancement of knowledge in our profession 

 generally, and particularly, by stimulating our 

 assistants to attend the lectures of the college." 

 Now, ladies and gentlemen, I will not weary 

 you by extended remarks. I again desire to 

 congratulate you as citizens of our beloved city 

 that has made such rapid strides along all the 

 departments that adorn our national and our 

 municipal life. Give your influence and sup- 

 port to this, one of the noblest institutions, 

 doing more in its line of scientific research and 

 scholarly work, than any other of its kind in the 

 United States. 



Now, young gentlemen of the graduating 

 class ; I congratulate you that you have to night 

 received those evidences of your high standing, 

 and of your culture in this department, .and of 

 the valuable work that you have done, and of the 

 noble results you have achieved during the two 

 years which you have spent in this institution, 

 and I am sure, ladies and gentlemen, that if 

 your experience is the same as those who have 

 strong attachments to their beloved alma mater, 

 that vou will always recognize the value of the 

 curriculum of study that has been imposed upon 

 you, and of the stand which you will take 

 amongst the druggists and pharmacists of the 

 world. 



Prof. Chandler : The Roll of Honor will 

 now be read by Prof. H. H. Rusby, on behalf of 

 the Examining Committee. 



Prof. Rusby : Ladies and Gentlemen ; It is 

 probable that the desire to be represented upon 

 the Honor Roll is not altogether absent from 

 the thoughts of any student, either the worthy 

 or the merely ambitious, and inasmuch as stu- 

 dents of both classes, those who are really 

 worthy and those who are merely ambitious fre- 

 quently succeed in getting their names placed 

 upon the Roll of Honor, it becomes a duty re- 

 quiring no small degree of ingenuity and skill 

 to succeed in admitting the former and exclud- 

 ing the latter from the Roll of Honor. In the 

 olden days when courses of education consisted 

 largely in acts of memorizing, it was not at 

 all impossible for the student who was not 

 really deserving to succeed in being placed 

 upon the Roll of Honor, and indeed it was 

 not impossible for a student who had been 

 delinquent and careless throughout most of 

 his course, by some brilliant act of mem- 

 orizing near the close, to succeed in ap- 

 pearing to attain to this high standard ; but 

 times have changed, and it is not too much for 

 us to assert that in these days and so far as ap- 

 plies to this institution, this is no longer pos- 

 sible. With rare exceptions, we may say, that 

 the names which we place upon our Rolls of 

 Honor, are the names only of those students 

 who are really good. In other words, it is not 

 possible, it has not been possible for any one of 

 those whose names I shall read to you this 

 evening, except by industry, faithfulness and 

 diligence, extending throughout the whole two 

 years of their study, to succeed in getting their 

 names enrolled upon this list, so that in reading 

 the names of these honored students we are 

 able to testify not only to the amount of knowl- 

 edge which they possess, but to their diligence, 



