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Annual  Address  of  President.      {  Am  jour.  Pharm. 
J  <•        May,  1917. 
6  students  are  taking  the  food  and  drug  course, 
8  students  are  taking  the  pharmaceutical  chemist  course. 
There  are  also  7  special  students  in  bacteriology,  three  of  whom  are 
graduates  of  your  institution.    Thus  the  total  attendance  at  the 
present  time  is  570  students. 
On  Monday  morning,  September  25,  191 6,  the  college  session 
was  opened,  under  rather  unusual  conditions.  Dean  Remington 
presided  and  Ex-Governor  Edwin  S.  Stuart,  Dr.  Edgar  F.  Smith, 
provost  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  Prof.  J.  W.  Sturmer 
and  your  president,  each  delivered  a  short  address  to  the  students, 
after  which  the  classes  had  an  opportunity  of  viewing  the  exhibits. 
Your  college  now  has  seven  courses  of  instruction,  namely : 
2  years'  course  (Ph.G.) — Graduate  in  Pharmacy, 
3  years'  course  (P.D.) — Doctor  of  Pharmacy, 
3  years'  course  (Ph.C.) — Pharmaceutical  Chemist, 
4  years'  course  (B.Sc.) — Bachelor  of  Science  in  Pharmacy  and 
Chemistry, 
for  the  above,  diplomas  are  awarded. 
In  addition  to  these,  you  have : 
3  years'  course  in  analytical  and  industrial  chemistry, 
2  years'  course  in  food  and  drug  analysis, 
Special  course  in  bacteriology. 
For  these  three  courses,  certificates  are  awarded. 
The  department  of  pharmacy  not  only  teaches  theory  and  prac- 
tice, but  operative  pharmacy  and  commercial  pharmacy — all  of 
which,  owing  to  the  enlarged  classes  of  the  present  session,  required 
much  thought  and  care  to  rearrange  the  instruction  to  meet  the 
situation  properly  and  effectively. 
The  professors  and  assistants  in  the  department  have  cheerfully 
given  their  time  and  talent  in  aiding  to  make  the  result  most  satis- 
factory. There  will  have  to  be,  however,  some  modification  in 
existing  arrangements  so  as  to  facilitate  the  teaching  in  this  depart- 
ment to  somewhat  relieve  the  double  work  which  in  some  cases  have 
been  necessarily  imposed  upon  the  professors  and  instructors  in  that 
department,  owing  to  the  duplication  of  lectures,  etc. 
The  custom  of  visiting  manufacturing  establishments,  which  was 
inaugurated  many  years  ago,  will  be  continued  and  it  is  fortunate 
for  the  students  that  notwithstanding  the  extraordinary  conditions 
now  existing  that  the  third-year  graduating  class  and  the  second-year 
graduating  class  have  been  invited  by  the  manufacturers  to  make, 
