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THE ALUMNI JOURNAL. 



to his labors, for there are no obstacles 

 too great, no problems too deep, no 

 riddles too difficult for men of this stamp. 

 The love of investigation, the pleasure 

 derived from the discovery of some hid- 

 den truth, the joy at the solving of some 

 contested question, is only known to the 

 votary of science. Fame to men of this 

 calibre is simply an incident; recognition 

 sooner or later is bound to come. Their 

 success is real and not measured by dollars 

 For after all, " the talent of success is 

 doing nothing more than you can do 

 well, and doing well whatever you do, 

 without a thought of fame; if it comes at 

 all it will come because it is deserved, 

 not because it is sought after." 



What encouragement lives of this kind 

 should be to young men starting forth 

 on their career; both are examples of 

 true success, illustrating that though 

 professions be overcrowded and competi- 

 tion fierce, true merit must win. Again, 

 never in the history of the world was 

 true merit so quickly recognized and 

 so amply rewarded as in our times; now- 

 adays the wreath of fame circles many 

 a brow, an honor which in former times 

 would have been reserved for a tribute 

 upon a tombstone. A striking example 

 of this is the world-wide fame that has 

 come to Lord Rayleigh and Prof. Ram- 

 say through their discovery of argon. 

 It is but a few months ago that this 

 important discovery was made, yet its 

 importance has been recognized through- 

 out the civilized world. Their fame has 

 been heralded in every land; Columbia 

 College has awarded them the Barnard 

 Medal, while as a more substantial 

 recognition their reward has also taken 

 the shape of the Hodgson Prize of ten 

 thousand dollars. 



PHARHACEUT1CAL ADVANCE/HEIST. 



At the meeting of the New Jersey 

 State Pharmaceutical Association, resolu- 

 tions were adopted looking to the higher 

 education of the pharmacist ; this is the 

 only true way of elevating the standard 

 of pharmacy. The step is in the right 

 direction, yet we believe the movement 

 should go still further and allow only 

 graduates of pharmacy to practice their 

 profession and a prerequisite of matricu- 

 lation should be a high school education 

 of a grade sufficiently advanced to admit 

 him to a university of which Columbia 

 may be taken as a type. 



Without wishing to enter into the dis- 

 cussion of pharmacy as practiced today, 

 we would say that as a rule a man gains 

 as much respect as he deserves, or his 

 life warrants. If the pharmacist of the 

 future really desires to be a professional 

 man he must be so, not alone in name, 

 but his acts must prove him one and 

 his position then will simply be a matter 

 of course. There will be no need of the 

 constant explanations before the public 

 of the fact that he pursues a professional 

 course of study at college, a garment 

 donned at the entrance to\>e too often dis- 

 carded at the exit, but his position will 

 be a natural one where his standing will 

 be unquestioned. We would say with 

 Carlyle : "Oh thou that pinest in the 

 imprisonment of the actual and criest 

 bitterly to the Gods for a kingdom where- 

 in to rule and create, know this of a cer- 

 tainty, the thing thou longest for is al- 

 ready with thee, here or nowhere couldst 

 thou only see." 



We note that at the last meeting of 

 the Chemical Society in London, Prof. 

 Coblentz was elected a member. 



Gallicine. — This body is the inethyl ether of 

 gallic acid, of the formula C 8 H 8 O s . A solution 

 of gallic or tannic acid is heated in methyl 

 alcohol with strong H 2 S0 4 . The gallicine is 

 then easily crystallized out in rhombic prisms. 

 They melt at 200 — 202°C. Gallicine is very 

 soluble in boiling water. It is used in eye 

 diseases. — Journal de Pharmacie d'Anvers. 



