THE JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY. 



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cent buildings and its rich equip- 

 ments. When I first came here I 

 was taken up Madison Avenue in 

 order that I might see Columbia 

 University, and when I saw in 

 49th street, between 49th and 50th 

 streets, those poor buildings repre- 

 senting the University of Columbia 

 I must acknowledge I smiled — not 

 an unkind smile, but a kind of com- 

 passionate smile — as an Englishman 

 does smile when he sees something 

 to smile at. Of course, we English 

 never see a joke by any possibility, 

 and yet it seemed even to me like a 

 joke when I saw those buildings 

 representing the University of Co- 

 lumbia. But look at it now ! 

 Within ten years moved to Morn- 

 ingside Heights, dominating this 

 great city with its magnificent 

 library ; possessed of a splendid 

 faculty; with vastly improved fa- 

 cilities for education and with huge 

 endowments, and it is hard for you 

 and me to believe all that has taken 

 place within the last ten years. 



May I, as there are ladies in the 

 graduating class, also ask you to 

 remember Barnard College, to which 

 I was one of the honorary chaplains, 

 at a time when I had to make in- 

 quiry of a florist, where upon earth 

 Barnard College was established. I 

 went into David's, the florist's store 

 and asked and they said " It is next 

 door," and nexf^door to a florist, in 

 the cramped surroundings of a little 

 four-story, I think, brown-stone 

 house, transmogrified into a college, 

 in little miserable class-rooms, with 

 every hindrance to educational effi- 

 ciency, there I found Barnard Col- 



lege, with its learned Dean, Emily 

 Smith, whose name is honored and 

 respected everywhere. Look at Bar- 

 nard College now! Look at Brinker- 

 hofi" Hall ! Look at Fiske Hall , and 

 you will say again, it is hard to be- 

 lieve within ten years so great a 

 change has taken place. 



Now you may be inclined to say 

 " O this is only a little exploitation 

 of civic pride! This is only a little 

 institutional competition." But it 

 is not. The true interpretation and 

 the solution of the fact is that New 

 York — and that means New York- 

 ers — are all of them determined to 

 have of everything the very best 

 that can be got ; and when they 

 know that there is something good 

 to be got, he is not an average New 

 Yorker who does not mean to get 

 it. (Applause.) He goes for it 

 and attains it and produces the re- 

 sult. 



Marvelous as have been these 

 great changes, I do not think that 

 the College of Pharmacy lags far 

 behind, and this College of perhaps 

 the newest and at the same time 

 the oldest science on record has 

 with gigantic strides been forcing 

 itself to the very forefront, in ad- 

 vanced liberal education. It has 

 taken its place amongst the other 

 educational establishments not only 

 of the city but of the whole country. 

 It has gone forward, and made its 

 graduates equals with the graduates 

 of the other learned bodies, and has 

 almost I believe extorted from the 

 Legislature, the very fact on which 

 I congratulate and compliment the 

 College more than any other, that 



