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highest usefulness. It corrects their crude notions of the phenomena they meet 
with; it suggests improvements in shop practices followed from meretradi- 
tion, and it opens out before them as an illustrated map, the length and breadth 
and the capabilities of their profession, as a sphere of usefulness and a field of 
ambition. We know that some boys and even young men who axe sent to the 
lecture room derive comparatively little from itsteachings,because they are not 
interested, their minds are wandering far from the subject that should have 
engaged them as pharmaceutical students, and their bodies are often as far 
from the lecture room as their minds, engaged in the pursuit of frivolous 
amusement, frequently as hurtful to their moral sense, as it is devoid of men- 
tal improvement. As well might argument be brought against common 
schools because idlers neglect their duties. 
Extract from the Minutes of the Board of Trustees of the Philadelphia College 
of Pharmacy. 
At the Annual Examination at the School of Pharmacy, the following 
named gentlemen, having complied^with the rules of the College, and having 
passed a satisfactory examination, were declared by the Board of Trustees 
Graduates of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. 
James B. Campbell, Thesis on Vin. Tinct. of fresh root of colchicum. 
Robert Ramsden, « Phytolacca Decandra. 
Henry M. Troth, " « " 
D. F. Goodyear, " Nepeta Cataria. 
John C. Savery, lt Fluid Extract of Serpentaria. 
Alfred A. B. Durand, " Hydrastis Canadensis. 
Thomas H. Montgomery, " Scammony. 
James Stratton, " Pharmacy. 
J. Henry Abbot, " Panax quinquefolium. 
Louis Hughes, " Fluid Extracts. 
Samuel S. Garrigues. " Matricaria. 
Weatherill Peterson, " Eupatorium Perfoliatum. 
George Canby, « Phosphate of Ammonia and Magnesia. 
William King, " Commercial varieties of Sarsaparilla. 
William Taylor, « Fluid Extracts. 
Charles S. Braddock, " Salix Babylonica. 
John D. Finley, " Syrups of the Pharmacopoeia. 
William D. Elliot, " Cimicifuga Racemosa. 
Louis De Barth Kuhn, " Pharmaceutical Ethics. 
The Annual Oommencement of the College will be held on Friday, the 
fourth of April, at the Sansom Street Hall, on which occasion the Degree 
of Graduate in Pharmacy will be publicly conferred upon the above named 
gentlemen. 
The Valedictory Address will be delivered by Professor Robert P. 
Thomas of the Institution. 
Thomas P. James, Chairman, 
Alfred B. Taylor, Secretary. 
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