92       Memorial  Meeting  to  Professor  Remington.  { A^h]T°^y  ^[g1, 
my  friendship  than  in  the  christening  of  my  first  boy.  My  wife 
kindly  permitted  me  to  choose  the  godfathers  and  I  chose  Joseph  P. 
Remington  and  John  Uri  Lloyd,  and  I  am  glad  to  know  that  my  boy, 
now  approaching  his  sixth  year,  will  realize  (he  does  realize  now) 
his  loss  at  the  death  of  his  godfather  and  realize  it  more  and  more 
as  he  grows  older.  What  a  blessing  he  had  in  two  such  godfathers ! 
There  is  nothing  in  my  personal  history  that  I  prize  more  than  that 
event.  And  so  I  have  learned  to  prize  Remington  more  and  more 
as  the  years  go  by. 
I  do  not  quite  agree  with  Professor  Sadtler  in  saying  that  when 
a  man  is  seventy,  he  perhaps  is  not  of  much  more  use  in  life.  If  I 
had  quit  at  seventy  I  would  not  be  here  to-day ;  I  am  seventy- four. 
I  feel  that  it  is  hardly  a  compensation  for  our  loss  to  think  of  Pro- 
fessor Remington  as  having  lived  his  whole  life.  No  good  man  ever 
lives  his  whole  life.  The  old  adage  says  that  the  good  die  young. 
I  have  seen  a  clever  addition  to  that  saying — '  The  good  die  young, 
no  matter  how  long  they  live,'  and  Remington  would  have  died 
young  had  he  lived  to  a  century,  because  he  had  in  him  the  spring 
of  eternal  youth.  No  man  grows  old  whose  heart  is  young.  The 
beautiful  words  of  one  of  your  local  poets,  Dr.  S.  Weir  Mitchell, 
have  already  been  quoted  here,  and  may  I  return  to  one  of  my 
friends  of  2000  years  ago  in  endeavoring  to  express  to  you  the 
feeling  I  have  to-day  ?  The  old  Latin  poet  said  '  Nil  ego  contulerim 
jucundo  sanus  amico' — 'As  long  as  I  am  in  my  right  mind  I  shall 
never  prefer  anything  to  a  delightful  friend';  and  so  I  say  that  as 
long  as  I  am  in  my  right  mind  I  shall  never  prefer  anything  to  the 
delight  I  have  had  in  the  association  with  this  friend. 
Prof.  J.  A.  Koch,  dean  of  the  Pittsburgh  College  of  Pharmacy 
said: 
I  have  come  to  pay  tribute  to  the  memory  of  my  friend,  Pro- 
fessor Remington.  I  do  not  know  when  I  first  met  him,  but  I  do 
remember  when  I  first  learned  to  know  him.  It  was  here  in  this 
building,  twenty  years  ago,  just  after  I  first  took  up  my  duties  at  the 
Pittsburgh  College  of  Pharmacy.  I  came  to  see  Professor  Rem- 
ington and  the  advice  he  gave  me  and  the  goodness  of  heart  with 
which  he  took  up  my  case  were  overwhelming.  I  have,  from  that 
time  on,  felt  that  I  had  in  him  a  friend.  It  has  been  my  good 
fortune  to  meet  him  very  frequently  and  I  was  especially  fortunate 
