. alumni journal. Columbia University. College of Pharmacy; Pharmacology. C. U. C. p. ALUAINI JOURNAL 107 upon the care of a present nurse, not upon the love of adoring- parents, but upon the ability with which the lonely man in the drug store deciphers the prescription that the child is expected to take. Yes, the responsibility is a grave one and all the graver because it must be discharged oftentimes with- out those surroundings which make perhaps for greater care, when we are observed by our fellow men. A man presents himself at the drug store counter. Only a glance at him and you
. alumni journal. Columbia University. College of Pharmacy; Pharmacology. C. U. C. p. ALUAINI JOURNAL 107 upon the care of a present nurse, not upon the love of adoring- parents, but upon the ability with which the lonely man in the drug store deciphers the prescription that the child is expected to take. Yes, the responsibility is a grave one and all the graver because it must be discharged oftentimes with- out those surroundings which make perhaps for greater care, when we are observed by our fellow men. A man presents himself at the drug store counter. Only a glance at him and you know that he is a victim of the drug habit. Body emaciated, face dis- figured, mind gone almost, soul warped, he stands there claiming that you shall give him something to minister to the disease that grips him, for a profit per- chance to you fabulous in its per- centage. It is not enough to turn on him your back. It is not enough to say to him that he must go elsewhere. There is an obligation to tell him in as plain words as you know how, the course that he may pursue to shake ofif the shackles that have unmanned him, so that he may again stand where God intended he should, with a sound body and a sound mind, redeemed from the curse that you may be instrumental in saving him from. The world is full of these responsibil- ities—the soldier on the firing line, the student in the ofiice, the thinker or the philosopher in the silence of his own home—but there is no more responsible calling than that which you now enter upon. Are you going to measure up to it? The College expects it, your friends expect it, the world expects it, your God expects it! President Jeannot Hostmann of the Alumni Association awarded the As- sociation prizes with the following re- marks: Mr. Chairman and Friends: Each vear the Alumni Association of the College of Pharmacy offers to the members of the graduating class, three prizes, consisting of a gold, silver and bronze medal respectively. These prize
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