200  Pharmaceutical  Colleges  and  Associations.  { ^"'ApS'^iggT"' 
ulty,  the  graduates,  the  lueiuLers  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  and  the  assist- 
ants of  the  professors  participating.  After  justice  had  been  done  to  the 
collation  provided,  speeches  were  made  relating  to  the  history  of  the  Col- 
lege, to  the  deceased  members  and  professors  that  had  been  active  in  it,  to 
the  prospects  and  contemplated  improvements  for  the  future,  to  College 
life  and  other  matters,  both  humorous  and  serious,  interspersed  with  reci- 
tations and  songs. 
The  commencement  of  the  sixty-first  session  of  the  College  took  place  at 
the  Academj^  of  Music,  on  the  evening  of  March  ]5tli,  the  large  edifice 
being  well  filled  with  an  appreciative  audience.  The  degree  of  Ph.G.  was 
conferred  upon  the  graduates  by  the  Pressident  of  the  College,  Dillwyn 
Parrish,  after  which  the  Procter  prize  gold  medal  was  awarded  by  Mr. 
Thomas  Perot,  on  behalf  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  to  Virgil  Coblentz,  of 
Springfield,  O.,  and  to  Jonas  G.  Clemmer,  of  Pliiladelphia,  and  honorable 
mention  was  made  of  the  following,  who  had  attained  the  grade  verj/  satis- 
factory at  the  examinations:  B.  A.  Cunningham,  C.  A.  Schoenenberger, 
S.  E.  Schweitzer,  D.  J.  Thomas,  .J.  H.  Harmanson,  G.  M.  Schambs,  J.  K. 
Lilly,  W.  H.  Mehl,  F.  C.  Sclieible,  W.  E.  Roeschel,  Julius  Way,  J.  H. 
Knouse,  E.  B.  Merriam,  F.  W.  E.  Stedem,  O.  H.  Gentry,  W.  D.  Reynolds, 
G.  W.  Hayes  and  T.  W.  Renting. 
The  prize,  a  Zentmayer  histological  mieroscoi^e,  offered  by  the  chair  of 
materia  medica,  was  not  awarded  for  microscopical  examination  of  Ameri- 
can drugs,  but  for  the  l^est  histological  descriptions  given  in  tlie  examina- 
tion ;  its  recipient  w^as  Virgil  Coblentz,  and  honorable  mention  was  made 
of  J.  G.  Clemmer,  B.  A.  Cunningham,  J.  H.  Harmanson,  C.  A.  Schoenen- 
berger, G.  M.  Schambs,  H.  L.  Green,  D.  .J.  Thomas  and  G.  L.  Ott,  to  the 
latter  for  microscopical  studies.  The  prize  of  a  Troemner  analytical  bal- 
ance, offered  by  the  chair  of  chemistry,  for  the  best  knowledge  of  and  work 
on  qualitative  and  quantitative  analysis  as  shown  by  the  thesis,  was  like- 
wise awarded  to  V.  Coblentz,  and  honorable  mention  accorded  to  J.  A. 
Price,  Simon  Wolf,  G.  W.  Hayes  and  J.  H.  Knouse. 
Professor  Sadtler  delivered  the  A^aledictory  address,  whicli  was  listened 
to  with  much  attention,  and  at  the  close  of  which  the  graduating  class  pre- 
sented a  set  of  the  ne\y  edition  of  Enclycopedia  Britannica  to  Professor 
Maisch,  and  a  handsome  clock  and  pair  of  vases  to  the  Actuary  of  the  Col- 
lege, Thomas  S.  Wiegand. 
As  usual,  the  exercises  alternated  with  music  by  the  Germania  Orchestra, 
and  closed  with  the  distribution  of  floral  tributes  and  other  presents  left 
upon  the  stage  by  the  friends  of  the  graduates. 
The  Alumni  AssocivVtion  of  the  Philadelphia  CoLLKaE  of 
Pharmacy  held  its  annual  meeting  on  Monday,  March  13th,  when  the 
following  officers  were  elected :  President,  Thomas  H.  Potts ;  Vice  Presi- 
dents—L.  E.  Sayre  and  C.  A.  Weidemann ;  Recording  Secretary,  Wm. 
E.  Krewson  ;  Corresponding  Secretary,  W^m.  A.  Ball;  Treasurer,  Edward 
C.  Jones;  Executive  Board — J.  E.  Cook,  J.  S.  Beetem,  Louis  Genois,  D. 
W.  Ross,  H.  Trimble  and  Wallace  Procter;  Trustee  of  Sinking  Fund,  T. 
S.  Wiegand;  Orator  for  1883,  Louis  Genois. 
