Am'M°ayr'  ?9hia7rm'  )  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.  233 
Trustees :  Joseph  P.  Remington,  C.  Stanley  French  and  George 
B.  Evans. 
Publication  Committee :  Samuel  P.  Sadtler,  Henry  Kraemer, 
Joseph  W.  England,  Joseph  P.  Remington,  Charles  H.  La  Wall, 
George  M.  Beringer  and  John  K.  Thum. 
Committee  of  Pharmaceutical  Meetings  :  Henry  Kraemer,  Joseph 
P.  Remington,  C.  B.  Lowe,  M.D.,  George  B.  Weidemann  and  E.  H. 
Hessler. 
President  French  stated  he  had  received  a  communication  from 
the  second-  and  third-year  classes  which  he  desired  to  submit  for  the 
consideration  of  the  members.  He  then  read  the  following  com- 
munication : 
Mr.  Howard  B.  French,  President: 
Realizing  the  critical  condition  in  which  the  government  of  the  United 
States  is  now  placed  by  the  threatened  aggressions  of  a  foreign  nation,  the 
senior  classes  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  or  a  majority  of  the 
members  thereof,  desire  to  offer  their  services  to  the  proper  authorities  of 
the  government  as  pharmacists  to  serve  in  hospitals,  army  posts,  or  in  the 
navy,  or  in  other  capacity  in  which  we,  as  pharmacists,  can  render  service, 
and  as  the  necessities  may  require. 
Therefore,  be  it  Resolved,  That  we  request  the  president  of  the  Philadel- 
phia College  of  Pharmacy  to  notify  the  proper  officials  of  our  government  of 
our  desire  to  serve  the  nation,  the  state  and  the  city  with  the  knowledge  and 
experience  which  we  will  have  gained  in  securing  our  degrees  as  pharmacists. 
Ralph  R.  Foran, 
President  P.D.  Class  1917, 
A.  E.  Clapham, 
Secretary. 
M.  S.  Gehman, 
President  Ph.G.  Class  1917, 
E.  B.  Powell, 
Secretary. 
Mr.  French  stated  he  had  prepared  a  letter  to  be  sent  to  the 
president  of  the  United  States  as  requested  by  the  senior  classes  as 
follows : 
To  the  President, 
Washington,  D.  C. 
Dear  Sir:  By  request  of  the  senior  classes  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of 
Pharmacy,  I  have  the  honor  herewith  to  submit  resolutions  which  they  have 
respectively  adopted  offering  their  services  as  pharmacists  to  the  government 
should  an  occasion  arise  to  require  them.  There  are  304  students  in  the  two 
classes,  their  final  examinations  will  be  held  in  May,  and  their  degrees  will  be 
conferred  on  June  6,  1917.    Their  practical  experience  and  knowledge  will,  no 
