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has been supported by the pharmacist ever since it began. When we 

 moved to 68th Street, we had a mortgage of $125,000, and the contri- 

 butions which have come from the members of the College, the whole- 

 sale and retail druggists, have reduced that sum to $90,000 We pay 

 interest on $90,000. We need that interest for running expenses, and 

 we are living in hopes that some day we may be agreeably surprised 

 by a handsome gift from some one of those gentlemen who are so 

 amply able to make it. I throw this out as a hint. 



There is one other thing for which I will detain you. I have pre- 

 pared a list of the graduates that have been sent out from this Col- 

 lege on their missions of usefulness and mercy. Since the College 

 was founded in 1829, we have graduated 3,734 well-trained pharma- 

 cists, placing them at the disposal of the public in order to minister 

 to its wants. Now if an institution which accomplishes that work is 

 not entitled to some support, from the people who are benefited, I do 

 not know what institution is. 



We have a teaching staff of fourteen college bred men, well quali- 

 fied each for his particular duty ; we have an excellent building and a 

 fine equipment, but we haven't nearly room enough. You may say I 

 am really placed between two opposite ideas. I want you to realize 

 how much the College has done and is doing, we want you to con- 

 gratulate us that so much has been accomplished, but on the other 

 hand, I want you to feel that we need a great deal more. You may 

 say that these two ideas are antagonistic. Not at all. It is the com- 

 mon idea. The more we have, the more we want. We see how much 

 we are able to do with what we have, and we see how much more we 

 could do if our resources were increased. 



You may be interested to know that this year (1911-12) we had 

 214 Juniors matriculate here and five of them were young ladies. 

 They give a tone to the College of Pharmacy. We had 114 Seniors, 

 of whom seven were young ladies. Out of these 114, 84 are candi- 

 dates for the Degree of Graduate in Pharmacy. Then, for the Colum- 

 bia degree of Pharmaceutical Chemist, we have 16 candidates, and 

 there are 41 men in the Junior class who expect to qualify for that 

 degree next year. Then we have six food and drug analysts, two 

 candidates for the degree of Doctor of Pharmacy at Columbia, and, 

 at the end of the year, counting out those students who have left, 

 there will be 272 students who have been in actual attendance during 

 the past year. I might say that we have been extremely pleased with 



