THE 
AMERICAN JOURNAL 
OF 
PHARMACY. 
APRIL., 184:3. 
ART. I— INTRODUCTORY LECTURE DELIVERED AT THE 
COLLEGE OF PHARMACY, NOVEMBER 4, 1841. By 
William R. Fisher, M. D., Professor of General and Pharmaceutic 
Chemistry. 
Gentlemen, — The relative positions which we occupy on 
the present occasion, — yourselves as seekers after knowledge, 
and he who addresses you as placed here to impart it, — de- 
mand a cautious and deliberate consideration; and invite on 
the part of either, a respectful esteem and sincere confidence 
from each toward the other. It is an occasion possessing high 
interest for both parties. It is a period towards which you 
have looked for some time as pregnant with certain benefits ; 
as abounding with valuable information; as the attainment of 
such a position in the course of your studies, as promises, 
with a faithful attention and assiduous industry, to yield an 
earnest of your future usefulness and prosperity. To some of 
you the termination of the present course bears prospects of 
the successful conclusion of your studies, and the commence- 
ment of an honorable career as proficients in your profession; 
while others there are who now enter, for the first time, these 
walls, in search of those truths of which the more advanced 
are already partly in possession. Eager for the achievement 
and zealous in the pursuit, the occasion possesses no less in- 
terest for the less than for the more advanced student; though 
feelingsand motives of a somewhat different character are expe- 
rienced by both. In both, however, the feelings are generous 
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