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degree of " Graduate in Pharmacy, " and here- 

 after you will be entitled to all the privileges, 

 and held to all the duties that attach to that 

 degree. 



Before you sit down, I would like to say that 

 I preside to-night owing to the absence, in 

 Europe, of the President of the College, Mr. 

 Samuel W. Fairchild, and that I have just re- 

 ceived a cablegram from him dated at Carlsbad, 

 in Germany, begging me to give his congratula- 

 tions and his best wishes to the graduating 

 class. 



You have ever bee 1 faithful to the teachings 

 of your instructors since you have been in the 

 college, and all we can say to you now is that 

 we hope in your future career, you will give 

 evidence of having not only embodied the infor- 

 mation which we have attempted to give you, 

 but that you will also carry away with you the 

 highest principles of honor and equity in j'our 

 relations to one another and to the public, and 

 I hope that those colored bottles in your win- 

 dows will forever serve to show where honest 

 dealings may be found, and that you will be 

 honorable to yourselves, your professional 

 brethren, and the world. 



Prof. Chandler : The address to the 

 graduating class will now be given by Mr. John 

 L. N. Hunt, of the Board of Education, of the 

 City of New York. I have the pleasure of 

 introducing him. 



Mr. Hunt : Mr. President, Ladies and Gen- 

 tlemen — I thought I had something to say be- 

 fore I came, but Dr. Chandler has said it, and 

 that relieves me of a very great burden of re- 

 sponibility. A few mornings ago, by the en- 

 ticements and allurements of one of your trus- 

 tees, who can never be withstood in anything 

 he undertakes, I was induced to visit the Col- 

 lege of Pharmacy for an hour or two, and of 

 course in that limited time, I took it all in, that 

 is, the building ; but not very much of the 

 course of instruction, I fear. At least, I should 

 not like to have an examination paper gotten 

 up by this Faculty, placed before me upon 

 materia medica, pharmacy, pharmacognosy, 

 analytical chemistry or in any other depart- 

 ment here. I think I would fall very far below 

 zero. 



I want to congratulate the people of New 

 York upon two things. First of all though, I 

 want to narrate the saying or the alleged saying 

 of one of our old Greek philosophers, who says, 

 that he thanked the Gods for three things. You 

 wdl discover in one of these sayings that he 

 was opposed to womankind. He said he thanked 



the Gods that he was born a man, and not a 

 woman. Second, that he was born a wise fel- 

 low and not a fool ; and third, that he was 

 born a Grecian and not a Roman. Now, I 

 want to congratulate the people of New York, 

 that the College of Pharmacy was born in their 

 city. 



I confess to you — I not only acknowledge my 

 faults, but I confess my sins— in having been so 

 long a citizen of our beloved city and a large 

 part of the time engaged in various kinds of 

 educational work that have come up in so 

 small a degree to the standard of public knowl- 

 edge as an educator, that I did not compre- 

 hend in any very great, marked or adequate 

 degree, the valuable work — the work that can- 

 not be told in writing or in words, that I be- 

 lieve this College has been doing, and that I 

 know it is doing to-day. If the citizens of New 

 York, my friends, understood the work that 

 the College of Pharmacy has on hand, and their 

 method of doing that work, they would at once 

 recognize it as one of the most important edu- 

 cational factors in this great metropolis of the 

 western hemisphere. Dr. Chandler has narrat- 

 ed how from a small beginning, they have 

 risen step by step, through inadequate support, 

 and by discouragements, to their present status 

 as a recognized educational factor in our midst. 

 Well, this College in that respect, is only a 

 type, is only a specific illustration, ladies and 

 gentlemen, of the work of this great nation, 

 and of this city. Why, to think in how short 

 a time man has, here upon Manhattan Island, 

 subdued the forces of nature, and how this city, 

 a little more than one hundred years ago, was 

 a green silence reposing at the gate of the sea ; 

 but to day this cosmopolitan life rushes through 

 its veins, and the nations of the earth make it 

 the theatre for the splendid rivalry of learning, 

 industry and art. To think, upon a broader 

 sketch, how but about one hundred years ago, 

 all there was in a governmental sense, of our 

 beloved country, all there was of civilized colo- 

 nial America, was a mere strip extending from 

 what is now known as Maine, on the north, 

 along the Atlantic coast, down as far as south- 

 ern Georgia, and less on an average, than one 

 hundred miles in width, and containing in all 

 but three millions of people ; and how to-day it 

 extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific, not a 

 strip of one hundred miles, but a continent of 

 three thousand or more, and how the three 

 millions of people have become sixty-five 

 millions, and how the nation stands in pres- 

 tige and in power ; the first in many re- 



