2^6  Annual  Address  of  President.      (Am.  jour.  Pharm. 
■^J^  '  1        May,  19 17. 
The  following  named  gentlemen  (previously  reported  upon)  were 
elected  to  receive  the  honorary  degree  of  Master  in  Pharmacy 
(Ph.M.)  at  the  next  commencement:  Julius  W.  Sturmer,  Philadel- 
phia; William  B.  Day,  Chicago;  Frederick  J.  Wulling,  Minnesota, 
and  John  K.  Thum,  Philadelphia. 
ANNUAL  ADDRESS  OF  THE  PRESIDENT  OF  THE 
PHILADELPHIA  COLLEGE  OF  PHARMACY. 
During  the  past  year  much  has  occurred  that  should  be  of 
interest  to  the  members,  therefore,  your  president  will  follow  the 
custom  which  he  started  some  years  ago  of  submitting  for  your  con- 
sideration a  concised  summary  of  what  has  occurred  in  your  institu- 
tion during  the  past  year. 
Some  changes  have  been  made  in  the  arrangement  of  the  interior 
of  your  buildings.  Shelving  has  been  placed  in  the  fourth  floor 
room,  formerly  occupied  as  a  gymnasium,  for  the  storage  of  surplus 
books,  which  had  previously  been  stored  in  the  basement  under  the 
library.  This  enabled  your  property  committee  to  remove  the  tem- 
porary partition  and  to  take  the  lockers  from  the  center  section  of 
the  basement  and  place  them  in  the  south  portion — thus  giving  addi- 
tional room  for  use  in  serving  lunch  to  the  male  members  of  the 
class.  In  addition  to  the  old  lockers,  your  committee  on  property 
has  placed  25  lockers  of  metal  construction  in  the  basement.  They 
also  have  had  the  former  reading  room  divided  in  half  ;  the  rear 
portion  of  which  is  used  by  women  students  for  their  lunch  room, 
while  the  front  half  has  been  transformed  into  an  office  for  the 
associate  dean,  with  a  door  opening  from  it  into  the  passageway  of 
the  main  office.  This  has  given  additional  facilities  for  the  transac- 
tion of  business  and  added  greatly  to  the  comfort  of  those  in  charge. 
The  bacteriology  laboratory  has  been  rearranged  and  refmished 
so  that  now  it  is  one  of  the  most  attractive  rooms  in  your  buildings. 
The  old  Alumni  Hall  has  been  transformed  into  a  microscopical 
laboratory. 
During  the  Christmas  holidays,  steam  radiators  were  placed  in 
Professor  Kraemer's  special  microscopical  laboratory  on  the  fourth 
floor  and  also  in  the  associate  dean's  office,  which  added  much  to 
the  comfort  of  those  using  these  departments.  This  work  was 
largely  done  by  your  engineer,  and  thus  the  cost  of  same  was  re- 
duced to  a  minimum. 
