402         A  Well-Equipped  College  of  Pharmacy. 
new  building,  excellent  laboratories  and  splendid  equipment.  It  is 
now  little  more  than  twenty-five  years  ago  that  the  dean  of  this  col- 
lege and  I  were  associated  as  instructors  in  the  College  of  Pharmacy 
in  the  City  of  New  York.  He  at  that  time  was  an  earnest  student, 
filled  with  visions  of  a  higher  pharmacy  and  was  called  to  build  up 
the  department  of  pharmacy  of  the  University  of  Minnesota.  It 
is  always  a  source  of  satisfaction  to  see  visible  expressions  of  the 
fact  that  the  dreams  of  a  young  man  will  come  true,  providing  he 
works.  Dean  Frederick  J.  Wulling  has  labored  hard  and  success- 
fully and  at  the  prime  of  life,  with  many  years  ahead  of  him,  has 
an  institution  which  is  the  equal  of  that  of  the  best  professional  and 
technical  schools  anywhere.  He  has  associated  with  him  a  group 
of  men  who  will  support  him  and  will  demonstrate  to  the  regents 
of  the  University  of  Minnesota  that  their  confidence  in  him  has  not 
been  misplaced  and  that  professional  pharmacy  is  deserving  of  this 
support. 
The  new  buildings  were  completed  in  191 3  and  since  that  time 
the  college  has  continued  to  grow.  The  pharmacists  of  the  North- 
west are  to  be  felicitated  that  they  have  an  institution  of  pharma- 
ceutical learning  that  is  adequately  equipped  and  stands  in  the  very 
front  line  of  institutions  of  its  kind  in  the  world.  From  six  stu- 
dents in  1892  with  no  fixed  entrance  requirements  to  over  one  hun- 
dred students  in  191 7,  practically  all  four-year  high-school  grad- 
uates ;  from  the  meager  appropriation  of  $5,000  in  1892  to  an  appro- 
priation of  $75,000  in  191 1 ;  from  a  property  value  of  about  $2,000 
in  1892  to  a  property  value  (personal  and  real)  of  over  $300,000, 
inclusive  of  sites,  in  191 1;  from  a  few  instructors  in  1892  to  an 
active  working  faculty  of  twenty-seven,  with  every  member  of 
which  every  student  comes  in  contact ;  from  no  special  lecturers  in 
1892  to  fourteen  in  191 1 ;  from  a  single  room  in  which  lecture  and 
laboratory  work  was  carried  on  in  1892  to  a  fine  large  four-story 
building,  61x115  ft.  in  dimensions,  in  the  erection  and  remodeling 
of  which  for  the  College  of  Pharmacy  over  $100,000  has  been 
spent  up  to  the  present;  from  a  fairly  good  curriculum  in  1892  to 
one  which  is  comparable  with  the  best  now;  from  comparatively 
little  research  work  in  1892  to  a  fair  volume  of  such  work  now; 
from  an  attempted  medicinal  plant  garden  in  1894  to  a  real  drug 
garden  of  several  hundred  medicinal  plants  and  to  a  plant  house 
31  x6o  ft.,  devoted  to  economic  plants;  from  a  precarious  existence 
within  the  few  years  following  organization,  during  which  period 
