88       Memorial  Meeting  to  Professor  Remington.  {AJ£bJ°!£y ^igls' 
have  continued  to  work  with  the  same  energy  it  would  have  been 
well  if  he  could  have  been  spared  as  a  counsellor.  Of  course,  when 
people  reach  that  age  we  do  not  expect  much  more  of  activity,  but 
the  man  who  retains  his  faculties  can  be  a  valuable  aid  and  adviser 
to  younger  men. 
I  have  said  that  I  have  a  sense  of  personal  loss  and  I  have 
tried  to  point  out  the  loss  which  the  profession  of  pharmacy  and  the 
teaching  of  pharmacy  will  experience  in  his  death.  We  shall  only 
begin  to  realize  this  as  succeeding  years  roll  by. 
President  French  then  said:  You  will  pardon  the  chair  for 
giving  a  personal  experience.  My  first  acquaintance  with  Professor 
Remington  started  in  1855  or  5^.  Possibly  I  have  known  him 
longer  than  anyone  in  this  room,  as  we  started  our  friendship  play- 
ing together  as  boys. 
His  loyalty  to  the  college  has  always  been  an  inspiration  to  me 
and  for  many  years  we  have  worked  together  for  the  benefit  of 
this  old  institution.  He  and  I  looked  forward  with  great  interest 
to  the  centenary  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  which 
will  take  place  in  March,  192 1. 
I  presume  that  I  have  been  connected  with  this  institution 
possibly  as  long,  or  perhaps  longer  than  any  man  living  to-day — 50 
years  last  October;  and  during  this  association  and  connection  I 
came  into  close  contact  with  Professor  Remington,  and  I  have 
learned  to  respect  and  honor  him.  He  was  a  strong  character, 
firmly  believing  that  he  was  doing  the  best,  by  his  devotion  to  the 
college,  for  pharmaceutical  learning  throughout  the  world.  His  loss 
to  us  is  a  serious  one  and  I  realize  what  a  burden  has  fallen  upon 
the  shoulders  of  those  who  are  left.  We  shall  have  to  do  our  best 
to  follow  his  example  and  emulate  the  loyalty-  he  so  frequently 
expressed  for  the  institution. 
He  then  called  upon  the  following  to  pay  tribute  to  Professor 
Remington  in  the  order  given: 
Professor  J.  W.  Sturmer,  Associate  Dean  of  the  College: 
Professor  Remington,  the  Teacher. 
Man  is  a  bundle  of  many  attributes — some  of  them  reciprocally 
synergistic,  some  of  them  seemingly  incompatible;  and  while  it  may 
be  difficult  to  sum  up  a  great  man's  work  in  a  few  brief  words,  it 
is  more  difficult  still  to  explain  how  he  achieved  his  results  and  to 
name  those  personal  characteristics  of  his  which  made  them  pos- 
