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PHILADELPHIA  COLLEGE  OF  PHARMACY. 
ANNUAL  MEETING. 
The  annual  meeting  of  the  members  of  the  Philadelphia  College 
of  Pharmacy  was  held  March  25,  1907,  in  the  Library,  at  4  P.M. 
The  President,  Howard  B.  French,  presided.  Twenty  members  were 
present.    The  minutes  of  the  quarterly  meeting,  held  December  31, 
1906,  were  read  and  approved.  The  minutes  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees  for  December  4,  1906  ;  January  2d,  February  5th  and  20th, 
1907,  were  read  by  the  Registrar,  Jacob  S.  Beetem,  and  approved. 
The  President  read  his  annual  report,  from  which  are  abstracted 
the  following  items  : 
The  buildings  are  in  excellent  condition.  An  additional  fire  escape  has  been 
erected.  A  portion  of  the  southeast  corner  of  the  Library  has  been  partitioned 
off  as  a  cloak-room  for  the  women  students — this  is  an  improvement  that  has 
been  much  needed  for  some  years  past — it  interferes  but  little  with  the  library 
and  has  proven  quite  an  advantage. 
The  tenant  in  the  Aimwell  School  Building  has  been  notified  to  vacate,  in 
anticipation  of  razing  the  building  and  the  erection  of  additional  laboratory 
facilities  to  provide  for  the  special  courses  as  recommended  by  the  Committee 
on  Instruction.  These  courses  will  qualify  your  students  to  act  as  chemists  in 
examining  drug  and  food  products  as  provided  for  under  the  Pure  Food  and 
Drugs  L,aw.  Plans  for  the  new  building  have  not  as  yet  been  perfected,  but  it 
is  expected  they  will  be  ready  in  the  near  future,  and  when  the  building  is 
completed  your  college  will  have  additions  to  the  Chemical  and  Microscopical 
laboratories  equipped  with  the  most  modern  apparatus,  enabling  your  institu- 
tion to  maintain  its  high  educational  standard  and  to  continue  as  the  leader  in 
the  pharmaceutical  world.  It  is  the  hope  of  your  president  that  from  time  to 
time  additions  can  be  made  which  will  give  further  enlarged  facilities  to 
students  to  perfect  themselves  in  chemistry  as  applied  to  the  various  arts  and 
manufactures,  and  to  qualify  them  to  take  positions  as  chemists  or  superin- 
tendents of  manufacturing  plants.  For  three  years  past  a  number  of  your 
students  have  taken  advantage  of  the  unusual  facilities  offered  by  the  college 
to  perfect  themselves  as  cement  chemists,  and  to  avail  themselves  of  practice 
in  a  physical  cement  laboratory,  which  has  been  of  great  benefit  to  them.  Your 
president  is  pleased  to  note  that  in  proportion  to  the  number  of  students  who 
matriculated  last  year  there  are  more  students  in  attendance  at  the  present  time 
than  at  the  same  time  last  year. 
The  qualifications  required  for  admission  of  students  to  your  college  are  fully 
equal  to,  or  probably  exceed,  the  most  exacting  of  any  pharmaceutical  college 
in  the  United  States,  and  the  preliminary  examinations  are  now  made  under 
State  authority. 
During  the  year,  five  first-year  students,  fifty  second-year  students,  and 
twenty-two  third-year  students  have  taken  special  work  in  the  chemical  labora- 
tory— an  increase  of  twenty -two  over  last  year.  Eight  students  have  taken  the 
special  Course  in  Bacteriology. 
