Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Valedictory Address Delivered at the Third Annual Commencement of the Maryland College of Pharmacy, March 15, 1859
In the republic of letters the same principle holds, as in the department of human law. There must be, forms, which shall communicate to the external world, the acts of this republic, which shall be the embodiments of laws, and hence, while eu titled to respect for the authority they convey, shall prevent unautho'rized persons from wielding the privileges they confer upon the worthy and the proficient. These forms are found all through the student's life; they separate him from the pro fessor, - invest the latter so long as he is in the professorial chair with certain peculiar privileges, separate and distinct from the learner who occupies the scholar's seat, - require that the rep resentatives of learned institutions should subject applicants for their honors to a thorough and impartial examination be fore such are awarded, and finally that the award should be made in public assemblage, before their countrymen, presenting the student with the laurel wreath which his labors have de served, making the occasion joyous with the sound of triumph ant musrc, significant or symbolic of the future reward awaiting every useful and good man at the termination of a life of struggle, and invoking the blessing of the great Father of us all upon the labors and trials of the neophyte thus about to enter upon the struggles of life.
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