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C. U. C. p. ALUMNI JOURNAL 



ACCOUNTING FOR PHARMACY STUDENTS. 



By CHARLES F. CHANDLER, 

 Professor Emeritus of Organic Chemistry. 



The following is a stenographic report of a talk given to the accounting class 

 by '■'our " belvved Doctor Chandler. Testimony as to the need of instruction 

 in accounting for pharinacy students^ given by one possessing such an enviable 

 professional reputation, is convincing proof of the value of the course. 



I think it was in 1866 when Dr. Bed- 

 ford, Professor of Pharmacy in this Col- 

 lege, came to me — I was quite a young 

 man in 1866 — and said "I want you to 

 come down to the College of Pharmacy 

 and help us." 



I said "what have you got?" 



"Well, we have a little school for edu- 

 cating apothecaries." 



That seemed to me a worthy under- 

 taking; our lives are in their hands, and 

 I thought it very important that they 

 should understand the business in which 

 they are engaged. 



Professor Bedford explained to me 

 that he wanted me to take the chair of 

 chemistry. 



"How many students have you?" 



"Thirty-three." 



"What quarters have you?" 



"We hire one room in the University 

 Building." 



"What do you want of me?" 



"Three evenings a week for five 

 months during the winter." 



"Have you got any money?" 



"No. We could allow you $400 a 

 year, but you will have to hire your own 

 assistant, and buy whatever apparatus 

 and chemicals are needed, out of that 

 $400." 



I thought it over, and felt there was 

 no other work I could undertake that 

 was more important than building up 

 this College of Pharmacy; It was a 

 labor of love, and one along with others 

 who were all working with the same ob- 

 ject. And you know what the College 

 of Pharmacy is now. It all grew out of 

 that little school of thirty-three in one 

 hired room of the University Building. 

 It is the only institution that I know of 

 in the United States that has grown 

 without having outside help. The City 

 has never appropriated anything ; the 

 State has never given a cent ; no million- 

 aire has ever endowed it; it has received 

 its support from the students and from 

 the pharmaceutical profession in New 

 York City. 



You can imagine what a pleasure it 

 is for me to come down here again to 

 this lecture room ; I lectured to the 

 students of this College until about five 

 years ago. Speaking of pleasure, you 

 can imagine what a pleasure it was when 

 President Butler wrote me if I thought 

 the Trustees would be willing to join 

 Columbia University. I told him they 

 would be delighted to belong to the 

 greatest University in America; to have 

 the degrees conferred Columbia Uni- 

 versity degrees. Why, do you know, 

 when that was published in the news- 



