Professor Chandler exhibited the prospectus of the college for 

 the session of 1866-67 in which his name first appeared. The 

 faculty consisted of three members, Ferdinand F. Mayer, who had 

 been a member of the faculty from i860, occupying the chair of 

 materia medica and botany, P. W. Bedford, who had been profes- 

 sor of practical pharmacy since 1864, and Dr. Chandler. The class 

 of the previous session had thirty-two members whose names are 

 given — one of whom was a woman, Lucy M. Abbott 



A HISTORY DEVOID OF INCIDENT. 



Just as a happy woman and a prosperous nation have no history 

 so the steady progress of the college towards increasing prosperity 

 left it devoid of history so far as striking incidents are concerned. 

 Dr. Chandler paid high tribute to the self-sacrificing labors of Pro- 

 fessor Bedford who was secretary of the college as well as professor 

 of practical pharmacy, saying that to him, and later to Qiarles Rice, 

 who became a member of the Board of Trustees in 1870, the college 

 owed more than to any other individuals. He also referred to the 

 distinguished services rendered to the institution by Ewen Mc- 

 Intyre who had served as its president for the thirteen years fol- 

 lowing 1877, and of Gustavus Ramsperger, who had served for many 

 years as a member of the board of trustees. 



His own work had been lightened in 1885 by the addition of Prof. 

 A. H. Elliott to the stafif, who first taught physics and later relieved 

 Dr. Chandler of the work on inorganic chemistry. 



In 1878 the institution moved from the University Building to 

 East Twenty-third street, and in 1893 again moved to the present 

 handsome and commodious building in Sixty - eighth street. On 

 March 15, 1904, the union of the college with Columbia University 

 was ratified, an occasion which might be looked upon, as Pro- 

 fessor Chandler considered, as the culmination of the success of the 

 institution. The proposal for this union had emanated from the 

 university and constituted the highest compliment that could be 

 paid to the college as one fit to be an integral part of one of the 

 greatest universities in the w^orld. 



Work on the Board of Health. 



Among the faculty who had been associated with him was one 

 man. Dr. Day, who had also been associated with him in the work 

 on the Board of Health. As president of that board in 1873 he had 

 undertaken to improve the sanitary conditions in the city in view of 

 the epidemic of cholera in Memphis which was spreading north- 

 ward. The dealers in Washington market had built out their stalls 



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