AFebJua£y  ^ig  1?'  }  Memorial  Meeting  to  Professor  Remington.  '89 
sible.  But  it  is  not  my  purpose  to  marshal  in  review  the  many 
achievements  of  Professor  Remington  and  to  disclose  the  secret 
of  his  success.  I  desire  merely — with  a  sad  heart — to  lay  my  humble 
twig  of  laurel  upon  his  grave. 
And  I  will  speak,  Mr.  Chairman,  of  Professor  Remington,  the 
teacher,  for  whatever  else  he  was  and  whatever  else  he  accom- 
plished, he  was  primarily  and  fundamentally  a  teacher,  a  teacher 
of  the  first  rank.  What  qualifications  are  necessary  to  a  great 
teacher?  We  are  informed  that  a  teacher  of  pharmacy  should  have 
acquired  a  certain  sum  of  knowledge,  should  have  attained  to  cer- 
tain scholastic  degrees.  But  a  pool  of  water,  even  though  it  be  a 
large  one,  does  not  necessarily  constitute  water  power;  and  a  man 
who  is  a  great  reservoir  of  knowledge  is  not  necessarily  a  great 
teacher.  Professor  Remington  was  a  great  teacher  because  he 
possessed,  in  addition  to  the  requisite  learning,  that  fine  altruistic 
spirit  which  made  him  desirous  to  help  others,  to  give,  to  give  to 
his  students  of  his  knowledge,  of  his  time,  of  his  energy,  of  his 
wisdom.  Further,  he  had  a  keen  insight  into  human  nature.  He 
understood  men,  knew  the  youthful  mind,  could  sense  the  attitude 
of  his  classes.  He  appreciated  that  students  are  not  uniform  units 
which  could  be  dealt  with  en  masse,  but  that  each  represented  a 
distinct  individual,  a  distinct  personality.  Hence  his  great  success 
in  establishing  those  cordial  relations,  indeed  personal  friendships, 
which  did  not  cease  with  the  students'  college  days.  When  I — a 
youth  of  twenty-one — had  been  appointed  an  assistant  in  a  distant 
university,  my  preceptor,  a  graduate  of  this  college,  told  me  about 
a  visit  he  had  just  paid  to  his  former  teacher,  Professor  Remington, 
who  received  him  with  a  warmth  of  welcome  which  came  from  the 
heart  and  which  made  of  this  visit  an  instance  to  be  treasured  in  the 
memory.  '  Young  man '  said  my  preceptor,  '  make  your  students 
like  you,  as  Professor  Remington  makes  his  students  like  him,  and 
you  will  succeed  as  a  teacher.'  A  strange  coincidence,  that  fortune 
associated  me  on  the  same  faculty,  during  the  past  few  years  of  his 
life,  with  the  great  teacher  who  had  been  pointed  out  as  an  exemplar. 
Nature  had  endowed  Professor  Remington  splendidly.  He 
had  a  commanding  presence,  a  clear,  pleasing  voice,  and  a  smile 
which  was  infectious.  In  his  discourses,  he  ran  the  gamut  of 
didactic  exposition,  humorous  anecdotes,  and  thrilling  bursts  of  im- 
passioned oratory. 
