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moral and material progress of human society, and think of the 

 benefit to the country of sending out every year a hundred trained 

 pharmacists, think what a benefit it is to the physician that he can 

 rely upon the pharmacist to whom he sends his prescription with 

 certainty that it will be properly filled out and that his patient will 

 get the benefit of exactly that combination of materials which he 

 thinks will bring back health. Think what a benefit it is to the 

 patient! Why, our lives are in the hands of the pharmacist and 

 the physician. Both must be thoroughly educated and qualified 

 for their work ; otherwise we risk our lives every time we send for 

 the physician or send his prescription to the pharmacist, and I 

 think it is a great example to the community that these men, these 

 pharmacists who undertake this important service to society, should 

 be willing to spend years of hard study in order to prepare them- 

 selves to perform their duties in a thorough and accurate manner. 

 We cannot help congratulating ourselves on the progress which 

 the College has already^ made, but we have great ambition ; we 

 desire to have it progress far more in the next few years than it 

 has in all the years that are past. It is our hope and ambition to 

 obtain for our College the foremost position in the world in the 

 field which it occupies and to make it the center of all that relates 

 to the science and art of pharmacy. 



Before I finish my few remarks I must say, however, that we 

 need help, we always need help, every college in the country, every 

 university in the country needs help; the number of students is 

 increasing everywhere and unless the resources of our institutions 

 of education are constantly increased in proportion, they fall behind 

 in their means for accomplishing their results. This College needs 

 help, and I might say here that it is a perfectly patent fact to all 

 who know the College, that it has never received the slightest 

 support from the city or the state, — never; no appropriation has 

 ever been made it, never has any wealthy citizen bestowed upon 

 this College any material sum of money. This College has grown 

 up and been developed entirely from within the profession. It has 

 been supported entirely by contributions from the pharmaceutical 

 profession, the retail and wholesale apothecaries of this city have 

 created and maintained this College. I think it is a reflection upon 

 the community. Millions of dollars are sent from this city in every 

 direction in the United States to support other educational institu- 



