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to their character as men and women. We 

 might also add that there are many others who 

 have also presented these same qualities, who 

 have tried faithfully and long, but who have 

 failed to reach this high standard. All honor 

 is due them for the efforts which they have 

 made, because we are obliged by our regulations 

 to exclude them if they fall even one mark be- 

 low the number which has been fixed upon as 

 making up the Roll of Honor. They have then 

 successfully endured crucial tiials not only of 

 their knowledge, but of their ability to put into 

 safe and successful practice the knowledge 

 which they have attained. Their examination 

 actually began during the first week after they 

 entered, in October, 1894, and they have been 

 under constant surveillance ever since, so that it 

 would have been impossible for them to have 

 been enrolled among the honored students if 

 they bad failed at any time during this course 

 of study. The long and tedious race of two 

 years in the recitation room and in the labor- 

 atory culminated last week in an examination 

 which occupied 4 days, including a knowledge 

 of, and the ability to identify the crude sub- 

 stances with which the pharmacist is concerned, 

 to estimate by chemical means their composi- 

 tion ; by the aid of the microscope, to determine 

 whether or not they were adulterated ; in the 

 pharmacy laboratory, to manipulate these crude 

 substances, and to make from them the prepara- 

 tions from which the physician expects his 

 medicines to be compounded ; to safely com- 

 pound these prescriptions after reading them, 

 which is by no means the least of the task set 

 for the pharmacist, and to dispense in beautiful 

 form the medicines which were to be taken by 

 the patients. So you see that the examination has 

 been an eminently practical one. Our method 

 is to assign to the different questions which are 

 propounded to these candidates, and to the 

 work which they are required to perform, a 

 certain number of points or marks respectively, 

 these points or marks aggregating 600, so that 

 if (a thing which has never yet taken place) 

 some one of them were to succeed in reaching 

 an ideal standard of perfection, the total num- 

 ber of marks which he could receive therefor 

 would be 600. You will see when I read this 

 Roll, how nearly some of these students have 

 come to reaching this ideal standard. The 

 names of those upon the onorRol 1 will num- 

 ber 14. Although it is our rule to include only 

 13 in this list, we this year met the peculiar 

 experience of finding that after we had marked 

 off 12 names for this list, we found that the 



next highest number of marks had been attain- 

 ed by two students. There was a tie, and 

 therefore our Honor Roll consists of 14 names. 

 Those of you who are inclined to spend some 

 time in psychological research may, perhaps, 

 speculate as to whether this destruction of the 

 number 13 is in any way symbolical of this 

 high degree of progress which our institution 

 has made during the past year. 



Out of a total number of 600 marks, Mr. 

 Otto Hensel has secured 569^ marks, making 

 a percentage of the total possible amount of 

 95 % ■ 



Mr. James E. Burns, receives 526 marks, or an 

 average of 873 per cent. 



Harry B. Ferguson, 524 marks, an average of 

 87J per cent. 



William T. Koster, 519 marks, or 86^ per 

 cent. 



E. A. Christiansen, 513^ marks, or 85J per 

 cent. 



Gustav Strack, 512 marks, or 85^ per cent. 



Henry A. Steinach, 507 marks, or 84^ per cent. 



William Broesler, 506 marks, or 84^ per cent. 



A. J. Koerber, 500 marks, or S3 \ per cent. 



Miss Agnes P. Mahony, 494 marks, or 82 \ per 

 cent. 



Louis G. Scharnikow. 491 marks, or 8if per 

 cent. 



C. S. Woodhull Davis, 486 marks, or 81 per 

 cent. 



Burton L. Bennett and Henry C. Steinheuer, 

 each received 484 marks or 803 per cent. 



Now, honored students, and students who are 

 self-honored, you have heard the claims which I 

 have presented on yourbehalf, to our guests this 

 evening, that in confirming this distinction upon 

 you, the Examination Committee, testifies to 

 your character as men and women of trust as 

 well as to the fact that you possess professional 

 knowledge and skill. Will you ever belie these 

 words. Remember that while you are few in 

 number, you belong to a great body of honor 

 men who are annually turned out by the numer- 

 ous colleges of pharmacy scattered throughout 

 this land, and while you who stand before us 

 this evening, are comparatively few and weak, 

 the body to which you belong is mighty. While 

 it is true that the honor of your profession rests 

 upon the shoulders of everyone who receives 

 the diploma of Graduate in Pharmacy, it rests in 

 a peculiar way upon your shoulders. Remember 

 that the high distinction that you have attained 

 during your course of study, simply indicates 

 the rich blessings which have been bestowed 

 upon you by high power, and should reprefc at 



