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condition of the College is most satisfactory. A devoted Board of 

 Trustees manages its business in a most judicial manner, judicious 

 as well as judicial. We have a very comprehensive and distin- 

 guished faculty, and I think there is no other institution in this 

 country that surpasses the College of the City of New^ York in 

 the thoroughness and comprehensiveness of its instructions. We 

 have a beautiful building, very complete equipment, most com- 

 modious lecture rooms, and a fine library, but one of the most im- 

 portant and encouraging features of our experience is the confi- 

 dence and sympathy which is manifested in the College by the 

 entire pharmaceutical profession. I might say a word with regard 

 to the honorable profession of the pharmacist and the honorable 

 position which he holds in the community. There have always 

 been pharmacists ; the pharmacists were among the earliest stu- 

 dents of nature. They studied the mineral kingdom, the vegetable 

 kingdom and the animal kingdom ; they sought everywhere for new 

 remedies; they even thought at one time that they might actually 

 accomplish what a great many advertisements say has been accom- 

 plished, that they might discover a universal remedy which would 

 eliminate all kinds of disease. That desirable result has not yet 

 been accomplished, but by their study of nature, their investiga- 

 tions into everything in the three kingdoms of nature, they have 

 succeeded in bringing to the aid of man the most wonderful agents 

 for controlling the operations of life and eliminating disease. The 

 pharmacist is an educated professional man who applies science and 

 experience for the benefit of the community in which he lives. His 

 pharmacy is a place of refuge for all who meet with accident or 

 sudden sickness in our streets. No one can fail to realize the 

 importance of the work of this College, what it is doing to fit the 

 rising generation of pharmacists for their indispensable life work, 

 and think how much benefit it is to the pharmacist to get such 

 an education as this College gives. It qualifies him for his life- 

 work ; it gives him the self-respect which comes with the knowl- 

 edge of proficiency ; it makes a professional man of him ; it admits 

 him to a guild, a fraternity; it makes him a man of science, and 

 science involves accuracy. 



A famous French chemist recently said, in speaking of the 

 scientific French method of pharmaceutical training, it is at present 

 and in fact has always been, the main, if not the only source of the 



