94      Memorial  Meeting  to  Professor  Remington.  {^^rTiy^ll?' 
was  such  as  we  might  desire  to  be  ours,  when  the  time  comes,  and 
a  hallowed  thought  is  '  May  our  lives  be  as  fruitful  as  his  was ; 
when  we  come  to  the  end  may  our  end  be  as  was  his.'  We  think  of 
him  now,  not  as  a  loss  to  us,  but  as  living  on,  on,  on,  in  that  world, 
where  '  Eye  hath  not  seen  nor  ear  heard,  neither  has  it  entered  into 
the  heart  of  man  to  conceive/  the  joy  that  our  dear  Brother  Rem- 
ington is  now  enjoying. 
Prof.  H.  V.  Arny,  professor  of  organic  chemistry  in  the  New 
York  College  of  Pharmacy: 
Mr.  Chairman:  I  am  here  in  more  than  one  capacity,  not  merely 
in  the  role  of  a  student  mourning  the  loss  of  his  great  teacher,  but 
also  as  the  official  representative  of  the  New  York  College  of 
Pharmacy.  Dean  Rusby  asked  me  to  express  particularly  to  the 
sister  institution  the  profound  feeling  of  sympathy  in  the  loss  of 
your  dean  and  the  great  regret  that  his  college  duties  prevented  him 
from  coming  himself.  I  wish,  however,  to  particularly  emphasize 
the  feeling  of  personal  loss.  In  Mr.  Beringer's  letter,  mention  was 
made  of  the  great  triumvirate  of  teachers;  I  will  add  a  fourth  to  the 
list — Maisch,  Sadtler,  Remington  and  Trimble.  These  four  men,  I 
think,  exercised  a  greater  influence  upon  pharmacy  than  any  other 
four  men  ever  did,  standing  as  disciples  not  only  of  true  pharmacy, 
but  also  of  sceince,  and  of  these  four  there  was  none  that  we 
recognize  as  greater  than  our  departed  friend.  I  will  even  go  so 
far  as  to  say  that  all  the  success  I  have  had  in  teaching  I  attribute 
very  largely  to  Professor  Remington.  I  owe  him  a  debt  of  eternal 
gratitude.  He  had  a  way  of  taking  a  dry  fact  and  of  connecting  it 
with  an  anecdote  that  impressed  it  on  the  mind,  as  no  other  teacher 
I  know  of  could  do.  It  has  been  my  privilege  to  hear  many  great 
teachers,  but  in  my  opinion,  there  was  none  superior  to  Professor 
Remington  as  far  as  beauty  of  diction  or  interest  is  concerned. 
My  heart  is  too  heavy  to  say  more,  except  that  it  is  not  merely 
as  a  teacher,  but  as  a  personal  friend  of  Professor  Remington  that 
I  wish  to  say  a  word.  He  was  always  courteous,  even  when  he 
differed  from  a  man ;  he  was  always  the  same  sweet,  gentle,  kindly 
man.  I  am  here  chiefly  as  a  mourner ;  I  have  lost  one  of  the  dearest 
and  best  of  friends. 
