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apprenticed to members of the college, are exempt from the 
matriculation fee/ but they must invariably obtain the ma- 
triculation ticket before the commencement of each course. 
Graduates and members of the college, and all students who 
have paid for two full courses of instruction in the college, 
are admitted to the lectures gratuitously. 
QUALIFICATIONS FOR GRADUATION. 
Every person upon whom a diploma of this college shall 
be conferred, must be of good moral character, must have 
arrived at the age of twenty-one years, have attended two 
courses of each of the lectures delivered in the college, or 
one course in the college, and one course in some other re- 
spectable school of pharmacy, and have served out an ap- 
prenticeship of at least four years, with a person or. persons 
qualified to conduct the Drug and Apothecary business ; of 
which circumstance he must produce sufficient evidence to 
the Board of Examiners. 
He shall also be required to produce an original disserta- 
tion or thesis, upon some subject of the materia medica, 
pharmacy, chemistry, or one of the branches of science im- 
mediately connected therewith, which shall be written with 
neatness and accuracy, and with the evidence of appren- 
ticeship, be deposited with the senior professor of the 
school, on or before the twentieth of February, of the ses- 
sion in which the application shall be made. He must also 
be recommended in writing by the Committee of Examina- 
tion and the professors jointly, and if his application be 
finally approved of by the Board of Trustees, he shall, upon 
payment of five dollars to the treasurer, receive the diploma 
of the college. 
COMMENCEMENTS. 
Public commencements for conferring degrees upon the 
candidates who shall have been recommended by the Com- 
mittee, and approved by the Board, are held at such times 
as the Board of Trustees may direct. 
