An  April? i904arm'}        New  York  College  of  Pharmacy.  197 
five  years,  have  looked  with  favor  to  an  advancement  in  the  study  of 
pharmacy,  and  to-day  there  is  pending  in  the  Legislature  of  this 
State  a  bill  providing  that  education  shall  be  necessary  before  a 
student  can  matriculate  in  any  college  of  pharmacy  in  the  State  of 
New  York.  There  is  little  doubt  in  my  mind  that  that  bill  will 
finally  become  a  law,  and  will  demand  a  higher  education  to  become 
a  matriculant  of  such  a  college.  I  think,  ladies  and  gentlemen,  the 
dawn  of  a  high  education  in  pharmacy  is  at  hand,  for  which  the 
ambitions  of  the  members  of  this  college  have  been  striving  for  years." 
Among  other  things,  Dr.  Wm.  C.  Alpers  said:  "We  now  ap- 
proach a  system  where  the  preliminary  requirements  of  those  who 
wish  to  enter  the  College  will  not  be  any  more  a  matter  of  form, 
but  will  be  strictly  enforced.  We  know  under  what  difficulties  all 
colleges  of  pharmacy  in  this  country  have  suffered.  We  know  that 
pharmacy  is  not  a  science  of  itself,  but  rather  the  combination  of 
the  study  of  other  sciences,  and  as  these  different  sciences  have 
made  enormous  progress  during  the  last  two  or  three  decades,  we 
know  the  leaders  in  the  colleges  of  pharmacy  have  been  compelled 
in  order  to  keep  pace  with  the  advancement  of  these  sciences,  to 
pile  one  new  study  after  another  on  the  curriculum,  which  ten  or 
twenty  years  ago  was  even  then  too  difficult  for  the  material  that 
was  at  our  disposal.  We  know  what  a  vast  difference  exists  be- 
tween the  preliminary  requirements  of  the  colleges  of  pharmacy  in 
this  country  and  similar  institutions  in  Europe.  The  high  require- 
ments there  enforced  are  not  the  result  of  despotism  or  the  desire 
of  selfish  exclusiveness,  for  these  colleges  are  just  as  anxious  to  get 
students  as  we  are.  But  these  high  requirements  are  absolutely 
necessary  and  were  forced  upon  the  leaders  of  the  old  universities 
as  the  result  of  experiments  for  a  century." 
Charles  S.  Erb,  on  behalf  of  the  Alumni  Association,  said :  "  In 
order  to  show  the  appreciation  of  the  Alumni  Association  for  this 
College,  they  have  thought  it  wise  to  give  some  tangible  token  of 
their  love  for  the  College,  and  on  this  seventy-fifth  anniversary  they 
donate  to  the  College  the  sum  of  $2,000.  In  this  connection  I  may 
state  that  about  $500  of  this  sum  has  been  given  by  the  professors 
of  the  College,  $500  by  the  Association  itself,  and  the  other  thou- 
sand has  been  contributed  by  several  members." 
President  Nicholas  Murray  Butler,  of  Columbia,  was  not  present, 
having  gone  to  Mexico. 
