72  Professor  Joseph  P.  Remington.     {^'JuSy  P?giT' 
personal  magnetism  brought  about  a  condition  of  harmony.  He 
has  been  justly  called  a  great  stabilizer. 
Equipped  by  nature  with  a  winning  personality,  a  gift  of  elo- 
quence and  of  diction  of  unusually  appealing  quality,  he  has 
charmed  thousands  as  a  speaker  upon  various  subjects,  professional 
and  otherwise.  His  gift  of  imparting  knowledge  and  enthusiasm  to 
others  was  marvelous.  He  has  justly  been  called  a  teacher  of 
teachers,  for  the  land  is  rilled  with  those  who  have  sat  at  his  feet 
and  then  have  gone  forth  to  carry  the  torch  of  knowledge  to  other 
generations. 
His  keenness  and  cleanness  of  wit,  his  qualities  as  an  ex- 
temporaneous speaker  have  made  him  a  toastmaster  without  a  peer 
and  he  was  much  sought  after  upon  occasions  requiring  such 
service.  He  was  honest  and  conscientious  to  a  degree  that  some- 
times was  inimical  to  his  own  interests.  During  his  three  decades 
of  service  in  revision  committee  work  he  was  ever  careful  to  see 
that  the  U.  S.  Pharmacopoeia  was  entirely  finished  and  out  of  his 
hands  before  doing  a  particle  of  work  on  the  revision  of  either  the 
"  Practice  of  Pharmacy "  or  the  U.  S.  Dispensatory,  lest  it  should 
be  said  that  he  took  advantage  of  his  advance  knowledge  to  reap 
financial  gain. 
His  family  has  lost  a  husband  and  a  father,  his  college  has  lost  a 
dean  and  a  professor,  his  profession  has  lost  its  most  shining  light, 
and  the  world  has  lost  a  man — a  man  of  whom  it  can  be  truly  said 
that  he  conformed  to  Huxley's  definition  of  one  who  had  a  liberal 
education,  to  wit : 
"That  man,  I  think,  has  had  a  liberal  education  who  has  been 
so  trained  in  youth  that  his  body  is  the  ready  servant  of  his  will, 
and  does  with  ease  and  pleasure  all  the  work  that,  as  a  mechanism, 
it  is  capable  of;  whose  intellect  is  a  clear,  cold,  logic  engine,  with 
all  its  parts  of  equal  strength,  and  in  smooth  working  order ;  ready 
like  a  steam  engine  to  be  turned  to  any  kind  of  work,  and  spin  the 
gossamers  as  well  as  forge  the  anchors  of  the  mind;  whose  mind  is 
stored  with  a  knowledge  of  the  great  and  fundamental  truths  of 
nature  and  of  the  laws  of  her  operations;  one  who,  no  stunted 
ascetic,  is  full  of  life  and  fire,  but  whose  passions  are  trained  to 
come  to  heel  by  a  vigorous  will,  the  servant  of  a  tender  conscience ; 
who  has  learned  to  love  all  beauty,  whether  of  nature  or  art,  to  hate 
all  vileness,  and  to  respect  others  as  himself." 
Such  a  man  was  Joseph  P.  Remington.  Generations  of  pharma- 
cists shall  not  look  upon  his  like  again. 
