^6      Memorial  Meeting  to  Professor  Remington.  {^'^rTiy^gl?' 
Many  teachers  are  wise,  many  have  many  attainments,  but  no 
ability  to  inspire  in  their  students  that  zeal  for  study,  that  desire 
to  avail  themselves  of  all  the  opportunities  which  the  institution 
offers,  which  he  possessed  in  so  eminent  a  degree.  I  think  one  of 
the  best  monuments  of  his  life  is  in  the  teachers  he  taught.  Others 
have  spoken  of  him  as  being  preeminently  a  teacher  of  teachers, 
I  think  there  is  hardly  an  institution  of  pharmacy  in  the  United 
States  where  you  will  not  find  teachers  made  by  him. 
After  I  had  progressed  somewhat  in  my  pharmaceutical  career, 
I  became  an  observer  of  men,  and  next  a  critic  and  writer.  In  the 
latter  capacity  I  had  an  opportunity  to  study  Professor  Remington's 
work  in  every  phase.  As  an  editor  he  was  remarkably  successful. 
One  of  his  peculiar  characteristics  was  brought  out  in  a  conversa- 
tion which  I  had  with  him  about  his  new  '  Practice  of  Pharmacy/ 
He  had  been  very  kind  to  me  and  knowing  that  I  was  going  into 
journalism,  was  discussing  the  various  phases  of  it,  and  said,  '  Now, 
Mayo,  I  have  been  criticized  and  people  said  that  I  did  not  write  the 
"  Practice  of  Pharmacy,"  but  that  A.  B.  Taylor  wrote  it.  A  man's 
personal  capacity  is  limited;  he  must  enlist  the  intelligent  coopera- 
tion of  other  men  if  he  wants  to  make  a  success.  The  Philadelphia 
idea  (this  was  thirty  years  ago)  has  been  that  a  man  does  not  do  a 
thing  if  he  does  not  actually  do  it  with  his  own  hands.  It  is  a  mis- 
take, he  must  do  it  with  his  brains.  My  book  is  a  success  inasmuch 
as  I  have  directed  the  making  of  it.' 
He  has  had  throughout  his  life  the  faculty  of  directing  and 
showed  it  in  a  remarkable  degree  in  the  U.  S.  Pharmacopoeia.  As 
an  association  worker  I  became  associated  with  him,  and  I  have 
always  been  impressed  by  his  quality  of  being  a  stabilizer,  as  Dr. 
Wiley  says.  I  have  heard,  at  meetings,  the  most  bitter  vituperation 
and  people  have  come  to  the  pass  when  they  called  each  other  names. 
Professor  Remington  would  step  in  and  stabilize  the  discussion  and 
point  out  the  moderate  ground  where  all  could  meet,  in  a  way  that 
would  lead  the  entire  discussion,  by  his  superior  insight,  into  the 
real  crux  of  the  questions.  I  have  seen  him  in  his  home,  his  de- 
lightful home,  especially  at  Longport.  He  had  a  genius  for  friend- 
ship. I  only  wish  that  my  words  were  equal  to  my  thoughts  and 
my  disposition  to  do  justice  to  him.  As  a  teacher  he  was  un- 
equaled;  as  an  association  worker  he  was  the  great  organizer;  as 
an  editor  he  was  careful,  accurate  and  painstaking;  as  a  friend  he 
was  kind,  cordial  and  helpful. 
