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wrote  and  CicerO'  spoke  there  were  men  so  rich  that  they  dissolved 
pearls  in  goblets  of  wine  to  make  the  drink  more  costly.  But 
if  your  life  depended  upon  it,  I  venture  to  say,  not  one  of  you 
could  mention  a  single  one  of  those  rich  men's  names.  In  spite  of 
their  wealth  their  memories  have  been  buried  in  oblivion.  Wealth 
does  not  make  men  great.  A  man  may  be  a  manufacturer  and 
pile  up  profits  so  that  they  will  fill  the  vaults  of  a  bank,  but  that 
does  not  make  a  man  great.  I  got  the  notion  that  it  was  scholar- 
ship that  made  men  great,  for  I  found  that  on  Commencement  Day 
prizes  and  honors  were  awarded  on  the  basis  of  scholarships.  But 
when  I  began  to  study  the  life  of  Frederick  the  Great  I  found  in 
it  nothing  of  scholarship  to  boast  of.  He  never  learned  to  read 
his  native  German  with  any  sort  of  fluency.  Voltaire  used  to  say, 
in  the  morning,  '  Now  I  must  go  and  wash  the  King's  dirty  linen,' 
meaning  thereby  that  he  must  go  and  correct  the  King's  French. 
Frederick  never  could  read  French  accurately,  and  yet  he  was 
great.  Scholarship  never  makes  a  man  great.  A  man  may  be 
the  President  of  a  College,  and  noted  for  his  scholarship,  and  yet 
never  achieve  greatness. 
Is  it  political  position?  Well,  many  men  have  held  political 
positions  and  they  have  sunk  into  oblivion.  It  is  not  political 
position  either  that  helps  to  give  a  man  his  place  amongst  his 
fellowmen.  Schleiermacher,  in  his  essay  on  Frederick  the  Great, 
says  '  that  men  are  great  in  the  degree  and  to  the  extent  that  they 
exert  a  moulding  influence  over  their  fellow  men  and  render  to 
them  helpful  service.'  In  past  ages  the  Church  and  the  State  were 
the  only  channels  through  which  the  sons  of  genius  could  reach 
the  masses  of  their  fellow  men  and  thus  leave  their  own  age  and 
their  own  people  better  than  they  found  them.  But  the  nineteenth 
century  opened  up  a  new  channel  through  which  a  man  can  reach 
his  fellow  men,  and  that  channel  is  the  school. 
The  man  whom  we  admire  and  whom  we  have  gathered  to- 
night to  honor  has  impressed  himself  upon  the  community  through 
the  school  to  whose  board  of  trustees  he  has  belonged  for  many 
years  and  at  the  head  of  which  he  has  stood  during  a  number 
of  years.  This  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  has  made  itself 
felt  not  only  in  Pennsylvania,  but  even  in  the  far-off  countries 
of  Asia  and  of  other  lands ;  an(l  probably  it  has  done  more  for 
liumanity  than  some  of  us  are  able  to  perceive. 
In  the  days  of  John  Calvin  of  Geneva  the  average  length  of 
