The University Courier.
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COMMENCEMENT.
A Week Full of Interest for One Hundred and Nine Graduates.
Many Distinguished Visitors.
The Governor and his Staff attend Tuesday Evening.
Commencement week is always one of unusual interest. Not only is this true because the papas and mammas and sweet girl friends of the graduates have come to witness the ceremonies of the occasion and the display of learning but also because of the interest which the chancellor and faculty feel in the success of the persons who have been under their care for four years or more and the relief of their responsibilility which has rested upon them during the collegiates in training these persons for the activities and duties of life; and also the distinguished persons who are present either as speakers or visitors.
In the particulars just mentioned in the history of the University she has never been so fortunate, nor have attractions been so numerous. The sweet girl faces are here in great numbers. How could it have been otherwise in the face of the occurrence of so many of the leading social events of the year? Then the graduates have sisters or sweethearts who are here with pretty bouquets to toss upon the stage and tell them how proud they are of them. Aside from the particular interest in particular persons every one is interested in the distinguished men who address the graduating classes of the various departments and those present by invitation. Among those gentlemen are Mr. Horace E. Scudder of Cambridge, Mass., who delivers the annual address, Rev. Charles B. Mitchell of Kansas City, who delivered the Baccalaureate sermon, Dr. W. L. Schenck of Topeka, Mr. J. A. L. Waddell of Kansas City, and Gov. L. D. Lewelling and staff of Topeka. With this array of attractions commencement week began.
Baldridge has bought Mr. Zeller's laundry business, and will call for and deliver your laundry. He will retain the agency during the summer and next year. Remember him.
Commencement of School of Pharmacy.
On Monday at 10:30 a. m. the exercises of the School of Pharmacy, appropriate to the commencement of that school, were held in the chapel which had previously been decorated by skillful hands. The arrangement of the stage as well as the tasteful and artistic decoration added to the agreeable and pleasing features of the occasion.
After the usual opening remarks the Kansas City orchestra under Prof. H. O. Wheeler rendered "Ariadue" in a very pleasing and satisfactory manner. After prayer by Rev. Geo. D. Rodgers of Lawrence, Mr. Walter Everett Wilson of Miltonvale, Kan., the orator of the occasion, took as his subject "The Pharmacist." In his oration he endeavored to show the responsible position held by the Pharmacist who is the custodian, as it were, of many remedial agents which in the hands of unskilled and uneducated men would be both dangerous and deadly. First of all these remedial agents should be unadulterated. The Pharmacist placed, as he is, between the suffering and the public, should know and expose any and all attempts to adulterate these weapons of the physician.
Mr. Aflred Youngberg of Ottawa, the essayist, followed with a well written article on "The Pharmacopoeia of the United States. He attempted to show the importance of this work, of revision which is nearly finished and the relation that this classic work maintains toward the profession of medicine and the public. He also gave a synopsis of the Pharmacopoeia of the United States.
The speaker of the occasion was Dr. W. L. Schenck of Topeka. His address was listened to with great interest and was filled with much important information. Those who heard the Dr. could not help but see that he was especially interested in the science of health as well as in the curing of disease.
Banweld's "Minnehaha," a duo for flute and clarionet, was very prettily rendered, and Prof. L. E. Sayre, Dean of the School of Pharmacy, came forward and in giving a few "sage advices," disclaimed the holding of that position