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juvenile part of the College of Pharmacy. But there was an adult 

 portion behind that small class of thirty-three and it is because of the 

 activities of that adult portion, the pharmacists who came together 

 and established this College, that its success has continued ever since 

 it was first organized. In 1878. it had so prospered that it was able 

 to purchase a building in East 23rd Street, an abandoned church, and 

 to fit it up with lecture rooms and laboratories. Thus for the first 

 time, did the College of Pharmacy have anything like a suitable equip- 

 ment. It continued to prosper, and in 1892 it had become so bloated 

 with prosperity that it was actually able to borrow $125,000 and erect 

 a building in West 68th Street ; an elegant building supplied with 

 even thing necessary for the proper instruction of the large number 

 of students that we now have. 



You can imagine what a state of mind the men who had been strug- 

 gling to build up this important institution were in when, in 1904. 

 President Butler of Columbia University wrote to the Trustees to 

 know if the College of Pharmacy would be willing to become a part 

 of Columbia University. That seemed to be the crowning reward 

 for all the effort and work and time that had been devoted by the 

 members of the College of Pharmacy. " It was said by several persons 

 that they believed, as a class, the pharmacists of Xew York City stoo I 

 an inch higher the day after it was announced that Columbia Urn 

 versity invited the College of Pharmacy to enter into its organization 

 side by side with the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the College 

 of Law, the School of Mines, the Schools of Engineering and Barnard 

 College. I do not think there was much hesitation on the part of the 

 Trustees of the College of Pharmacy in accepting this invitation, an 1 

 since that date, 1904, we have enjoyed the pleasure of knowing that 

 the efforts of those who built up. organized and supported the College 

 of Pharmacv have been so successful as to give it a standing in the 

 community that would induce the largest University in this Countrv, 

 and I am not so sure that it is not the largest in the world, to invite 

 it to become a department. Xow. this was not a new idea to incor- 

 porate a College of Pharmacy in a great University. It has always 

 been the custom in German Universities to have a Pharmaceutical De- 

 partment and some of the State Universities have provided for that 

 branch of education. But it was a new thing in this part of the 

 United States and the arrangement has been extremely satisfactory to 

 b .tli parties. We have mutual interests, mutual co-operation ; we get 



