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TUESDAY,  MAY  I4TH. 
Pharmaceutical  Meeting,  College  Auditorium,  at  3  p.m. 
Evening,  7.30  p.m.    Alumni  Reunion  and  Banquet,  Hotel  Walton. 
Presentation  to  the  College  of  an  Oil  Portrait  of  Prof.  Remington. 
WEDNESDAY,  MAY  I5TH. 
Morning  at  10  a.m.  Annual  Field  Day  at  the  Athletic  Grounds, 
Forty-fourth  and  Parkside  Avenue ;  40-yard  Dash,  High  Jump,  Egg 
Race,  Hurdles,  Sack  Race  and  Broad  Jump,  etc. 
Evening.  Professors'  Banquet  to  the  Graduating  Class,  College 
Auditorium,  7  p.m. 
THURSDAY,  MAY  l6TH. 
Commencement  Exercises,  8  p.m.,  at  American  Academy  of  Music. 
Conferring  of  Degrees.  Awarding  Diplomas  and  Prizes.  Address 
by  the  Hon.  J.  Hampton  Moore. 
During  Commencement  Week  exhibits  will  be  made  in  the  various 
departments  of  the  College  which  will  prove  both  interesting  and 
instructive. 
It  is  hoped  that  all  members  of  the  Alumni  and  friends  of  the 
College  will  take  part  in  the  various  exercises  during  Commence- 
ment Week. 
APRIL  PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETING. 
The  stated  Pharmaceutical  Meeting  of  the  Philadelphia  College 
of  Pharmacy  was  held  Tuesday  afternoon,  April  16th,  with  E.  M. 
Boring  in  the  chair. 
The  meeting  was  devoted  principally  to  a  discussion  of  the  for- 
mulae given  in  the  National  Formulary. 
M.  I.  Wilbert  opened  the  discussion  by  the  presentation  of  a 
paper  on  "  The  Scope  and  Shortcomings  of  the  National  Formu- 
lary," and  exhibited  in  connection  therewith  a  number  of  samples  of 
preparations.  (See  page  205.)  The  speaker  stated  that  many  of 
the  preparations,  formulae  for  which  are  given  in  the  National  For- 
mulary, are  of  little  or  no  value  therapeutically,  some  of  them  being 
intended  to  replace  similar  proprietary  preparations,  and  that  in 
exploiting  them,  pharmacists  should  not  recommend  them  to  phy- 
sicians on  the  ground  of  their  therapeutic  value,  but  only  on  the 
condition  that  if  they  have  been  using  similar  preparations  these 
