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spects, among the nations of the earth, and, so 

 fellow citizens, not only has this been so in en- 

 largement of territory, in the acquisition of 

 great national resources, but it has been exem- 

 plified in the fouudation and the maintenance 

 of great institutions of art and of learning, in 

 law, theology, medicine and pedagogism, so 

 that to-day we do not consider in your particu- 

 lar line, for instance, in that of pharmacy, or 

 medicine, or surgery, we do not consider that 

 we have any superiors as a nation upon the 

 face of this globe. It is a recognized fact now, 

 to-day, that America has upon its Roll of Hon- 

 or, surgeons of the first rank in the annals of 

 that great art. We no longer look to Germany 

 to furnish us with all of the skilled phar- 

 macists and physicians of learning, but we 

 cultivate them here. It used to be supposed 

 that in order to get a man well versed in phar- 

 macy, and in the pharmacists' art, in the dis- 

 pensing of medicines, in the ability to tell their 

 constituent elements, that we must get an edu- 

 cated German pharmacist. This day, by reason 

 of the enterprise, the public enterprise, and the 

 skill, and the indomitable scholarly persever- 

 ance of America's scholars, has gone by, and 

 we now, Mr. President and Fellow Citizens, 

 plant the seed of scholarship in this particular 

 department, to celebrate the anniversary of 

 which, we have come together this evening. 

 We plant the seed of learning ; we notice 

 the shooting forth of the cotyledons of the 

 plant so to speak. We see how it rises, 

 breaking the soil to greet the sun ; we 

 we see it blossom and clothe itself in the green 

 leaf ; we see it rise, step by step, until it brings 

 forth the scholarly and cultured graduate, the 

 full fruit, the fruition of hopes found at first in 

 the seed planted in the institution. A nation, I 

 mean to say, Ladies and Gentlemen, that a nation 

 becomes great when it contains within itself the 

 seeds of its own greatness, the power of ex- 

 ecution ; not only the suaviter in modo, but the 

 fortiter in re and we have exemplified in this in- 

 stitution how from a small beginning about 67 

 years ago, and in the little room upon Washing- 

 ton Square, amidst all the discouragements 

 there was with the growth of the city, north- 

 ward, a transmigration to Twenty- third Street, 

 and with the unparalleled growth of the city 

 still northward, as we have had it in the last 

 quarter of a century, a further transmigration to 

 Sixty eighth street, in quarters which are not to 

 be surpassed in their particular line, anywhere 

 within the United States of America. 



I do not begrudge anyone pleasure, but I 



want to say to you all that I do not intend to 

 part for either love or money with the pleasure 

 I felt a few mornings ago in traversing from the 

 cellar to the garret, through the various depart, 

 ments of the College of Pharmacy, upon West 

 Sixty-eighth street. 



If the people of New York knew what the 

 faculty were doing; if they knew their method 

 of instruction; if they fully appreciated this to 

 its maximum worth, I say that there would not 

 be six months go by until their would be an 

 endowment fund of from a half a million to a 

 million of dollars, with which this institution 

 should go on conquering and to conquer in great- 

 er, nobler, wider fields of scientific research. This 

 institution richly deserves it; it ought to have it; 

 and it will have it. Dr. Chandler omitted a 

 little part of the thunder which I had prepared. 

 He ommitted to state, I believe, and if I am 

 incorrect, the Doctor will correct me now, that 

 at the last session of the Legislature, the Boaid 

 of Trustees succeeded in having the charter 

 amended, the charter of this institution, so that 

 the Legislature might in its corporate capacity 

 recognize the possibility and the probability 

 that this institution would grow, and so they 

 amended the charter, among other things em- 

 powering this institution to own real estate and 

 property of the value of one million dollars in- 

 stead of the restriction in the old charter of but 

 three hundred thousand dollars, so that you see 

 that the Legislature which has always an eye to 

 good things, those that are standing round about 

 and those that are obscure, had a prophetic 

 vision that the College of Pharmacy some day 

 would have a million dollars to own, and that 

 it had now already perhaps outgrown its original 

 limits; at least, it gave the power which was 

 but a slight hint to the citizens of New York to 

 walk up to the Captain's office and settle, and 

 they will do this. Also by a recent amendment, 

 they have given the institution the power, as 

 the Doctor intimated, in addition to the degree 

 of "Graduate in Pharmacy," the power to con- 

 fer upon its graduates, its post-graduates, the 

 degree of "Doctor of Pharmacy," after January 

 1, 1896. There are no "Doctors of Pharmacy" 

 here to-night, except the faculty, but if you 

 want to see the breakers break, just step in 

 about a year from now, or two years, in that 

 direction. They are empowered to grant the 

 degree to such of its former graduates or other 

 persons as have attained high distinction in the 

 profession of pharmacy or have produced satis- 

 factory evidence of superior attainments, or 

 have contributed by their labors and their writ- 



