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happened three or four years ago, when we received a letter from 

 the President of Columbia University, asking whether we would be 

 willing to have our College become one of the colleges of Columbia, 

 and to take a position side by side with the College of Physicians 

 and Surgeons, Barnard, Teachers, the Colleges of Pure Science and 

 Applied Sciences, and the College of Law. It is needless to say 

 that everyone connected with the College of Pharmacy was delight- 

 ed with this invitation. It was a recognition on the part of what is 

 now the largest University in the United States, that this Col- 

 lege had been doing good work, and had reached the position 

 where it was worthy of being associated with the other great pro- 

 fessional schools of the State. It is not without precedent to have 

 a College of Pharmacy an integral part of a University. In other 

 countries it has been the custom for Collges of Pharmacy to be one 

 with the University. In Germany, every University has a College 

 of Pharmacy, and every apothecary is a graduate of the University, 

 so we are simply doing in New York what has been done in Ger- 

 many. And it is not an innovation in the United States. In the 

 West, where Universities have been established by law as State 

 Ihiiversities, they have generally included a College of Pharmacy. 

 The advantages of this association with Columbia can hardly be 

 exaggerated. It means mutual interest, mutual co-operation and 

 higher standing for the College of Pharmacy and pharmaceutical 

 education, the opening of other schools to our students, the bring- 

 ing of the Instructors of the College of Physicians and Surgeons 

 into the College of Pharmacy, and now our students may obtain 

 degrees ivom Columbia University and become graduates of that 

 Institution, At present we give the degree of Graduate in Phar- 

 macy as the first degree in the College of Pharmacy, then for the 

 additional work Columbia University gives the additional degree of 

 Pharmaceutical Chemist, and I think there are twenty candidates 

 this year who are going up to Columbia to receive that degree, and 

 we hope that, ultimately, all our students, by previous study 

 before they enter the College of Pharmacy and additional work, 

 while they are connected with it, will be qualified to take this 

 degree. In addition to this, Columbia gives the degree of Doctor 

 of Pharmacy to those who have previously received the degree of 

 Pharmaceutical Chemist. This year we have several candidates 

 for that degree. 



The honorable position of the pharmacist is everywhere recog- 

 nized. He is an educated professional man, a man who applies 

 science to the benefit of the community in which he lives. No one 

 can fail to recognize the importance of the work which this College 



