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THE ALUMNI JOURNAL,. 



SIXTY=F1FTH ANNUAL COnnENCEHENT 

 OF THE COLLEGE OF PHARMACY. 



The Sixth Annual Commencement was held 

 at Carnegie Hall on Thursday evening, May 



9. l8 95- 



Accompanied by the strains of martial music 

 and amidst the greatest enthusiasm from the 

 vast audience assembled in the hall, the Gradu- 

 ates under the able leadership of Mr. H. W. At- 

 wood, Chairman of the Entertainment Commit- 

 tee, marched down the centre aisle and took 

 seats upon the platform, the centre of which 

 had been reserved for the Faculty and the in- 

 vited guests. In the absence of the President, 

 Mr. S, W. Fairchild, Prof. Chas. F. Chandler, 

 officiated as the presiding officer. 



After a musical selection rendered by the 

 Seventh Regiment Band, Prof. Chandler intro- 

 duced the Rev. Philip A. H. Brown, who open- 

 ed the exercises with a prayer and benediction. 

 Then after the rendering of a selection from 

 De Koven's Robin Hood, Prof. Chandler wel- 

 comed the audience in the following address : 

 Ladies and Gentlemen: — 



It is my pleasant duty to-night to extend to you 

 all, a greeting and a welcome to this, the Sixty- 

 fifth Annual Commencement of the College of 

 Pharmacy of the City of New York. We are 

 delighted again to see the Trustees of this Col- 

 lege gathered here, the members of the College 

 of Pharmacy, the Alumni, and all the friends of 

 the students and the faculty, our graduating 

 class; and we are glad to welcome here the class 

 of '96. The class of '96 occupies to-night, a 

 very elevated position (top gallery). We are 

 delighted to have them here, but we hope that 

 they will restrain within reasonable limits, their 

 youthful energies. 



It is my first duty to congratulate the college 

 and all its friends on the work of the past year, 

 and the progress which the college has made, I 

 shall have the honor to-night of conferring the 

 degree of "Graduate in Pharmacy" upon 105 

 young men, and when we look back, and re- 

 member that in 183 1, three young men presented 

 themselves to receive their diplomas, we are 

 filled with satisfaction that the college has had 

 such a healthy and vigorous growth. I may 

 say for the benefit of those who are not especi- 

 ally familiar with the details of the working of 

 the college, that we have had during the past 

 year, 325 young men attending the exercises of 

 the college. In my own experience, I can say 

 that this is a most wonderful development. It 

 is, now, I think, 25 yearssince I first became con- 

 nected with this institution. We then had a class 



of 33 students, and hired a single room in the old 

 university on Washington Square. The interes 

 manifested in this enterprise by the professional 

 pharmacists of this city, and the earnest and 

 faithful work of a dozen or 20 members of this 

 fraternity have succeeded in bringing that little 

 school out of that hired room, first into its 

 building on Twenty-third street, and now 

 recently, into its elegant quarters in Sixty- 

 eighth street, and I think it my first duty to- 

 night to express the thanks of the faculty in 

 particular, and the students in general, to the 

 architects who planned so successfully the build- 

 ing which we now occupy, Messrs. Little & 

 O'Connor, and it is with great pleasure that I 

 claim one of the firm as an old student at the 

 School of Mines. Our buildings there could not 

 be more commodious, or more convenient. 

 They are admirably arranged, and we find 

 after a year's experience, that we have nothing 

 left to be desired. They are not only large 

 enough to accommodate all the students which 

 we now have, but we have room for nearly as 

 many more; and the ventilation, that mysterious 

 subject upon which so many have theories, and 

 upon which so few can shed any practical light — 

 the ventilation even , has been so well arranged 

 that with 100 students working in the laboratory, 

 and liberating various chemical gases and vapors, 

 we find that the air never becomes disagreeable 

 or offensive. It is really the first occasion on 

 which I have seen a chemical laboratory properly 

 ventilated. Our lecture room seats 600 students, 

 and gives every one perfect opportunity to view 

 the experiments performed on the lecture room 

 table or the diagrams that are hung upon the 

 walls. 



I should fail in my duty if I did not take this 

 occasion also to thank the generous friends of 

 the College of Pharmacy — the apothecari s of 

 New York and the wholesale druggists and the 

 dealers in druggists' supplies who generously 

 came forward and contributed to the needs of 

 the college when it moved from Twenty third 

 street to Sixty eighth street. $35,000 was gener- 

 ously contributed by these gentlemen, which 

 materially aided us in making this expensive 

 change in our quarters. Our Treasurer, Mr. 

 Fraser, informs me that he has just balanced the 

 books of the college and that he finds that the 

 college is to-day $50,000 better off than it was 

 20 years ago. I would say for the benefit of 

 those who are not familiar with the details of 

 the college, that we have in this institution a 

 remarkable illustration of what can be accom- 

 plished by the labors of those within. Most of 

 our large institutions of learning have been 

 developed by the assistance of those without, 

 who have contributed large sums of money, to 



