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with no external assistance we were delighted five years ago to 

 receive an invitation from the President of Columbia University to 

 come into that University and become a part of it, to be placed 

 alongside of the law student and the medical student and the 

 Schools of Applied Science. You can imagine how satisfactory it 

 was to those who have labored so long and so faithfully to build 

 up this College to have their efforts recognized and to have the 

 largest University in the United States consider them worthy to 

 become one of their regular professional departments. It was not 

 only a compliment to the New York College of Pharmacy, but it 

 was a great compliment to the whole pharmaceutical profession to 

 be recognized by this great University as one of the learned pro- 

 fessions. This act on the part of Columbia University is not with- 

 out its precedents ; I may say that in Germany, pharmacy has 

 always been recognized as a profession. I think that in every large 

 German University there is a College of Pharmacy, an integral 

 part of the University, on the same footing and in the same rank 

 as all the other departments. 



This union with Golumbia is of the greatest advantage to us. 

 It creates mutual interests, mut-ual co-operation and a higher 

 standard for the College of Pharmacy; it opens the College of 

 Physicians and Surgeons to our students and it opens the College 

 of Pharmacy to the College of Physicians and Surgeons. It brings 

 distinguished instructors from the College of Physicians and Sur- 

 geons to meet our students from the College of Pharmacy, and 

 furthermore, when our students who pursue the prescribed course 

 receive their degrees from Columbia University, they become grad- 

 uates of Columbia. We have a University course for the degree 

 of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, the preliminary requirement of which 

 IS a full academic education, including, of course, four years in 

 graduating from the High School. It means two full professional 

 years in the College of Pharmacy and an additional term of study 

 for a longer period. We hope ultimately that all our students will 

 be able to devote the necessary time to qualify for this degree. 



Looking back over the years that this College has been in exist- 

 ence, we find that nearly 3,000 well educated and well trained 

 pharmacists have been graduated from its halls, and have become 

 most useful professional members of our community. The present 



