Am.  Jul 
Jan. 
^isss**™'  }              Advances  in  Instruction. 
Ytar. 
Notes  and  College  Events. 
Number  of  matri- 
culants. 
Percentage  of  ma- 
triculants from 
Pennsylvania 
and  neighboring 
t  States. 
Percentage  of  ma- 
triculants from 
distant  States 
and  countries. 
1881 
New  building  erected  on  Elwyn  street,  doubling  the 
facilities:  Assistants  to  the  Professors  appointed  to 
review  the  lectures;  Prof.  Power  elected  Director  of 
Chemical  Laboratory;  Class  instruction  in  Analyti- 
367 
64 
68 
*36 
1882,,, 
Practical  Course  in  Microscopy  instituted  by  the 
Alumni  Association*  A.P.Brown  Ph.G.  Instructor 
370 
32 
1883  
Prof.  Power  resigned;  Prof.  Trimble  elected  to  assist 
Prof.  Sadtler  in  direction  of  Chemical  Laboratory.... 
443 
67 
33 
1884  , 
543 
63 
37 
The  figures  in  this  table  show  a  steady  and  gratifying  increase,  the 
percentage  columns  indicate  the  gradual  evolution  (somewhat  inter- 
mittent, it  is  true),  which  shows  the  national  gvov^i\\  of  the  College,  the 
percentage  of  matriculants  from  distant  States  and  Territories  being  22 
per  cent,  in  1860  and  33  per  cent,  in  1883;  the  highest  figures 
being  exceeded  in  J  884  and  1876,  the  Centennial  year,  when  37  per  cent, 
was  reached,  and  the  lowest  percentage  of  distant  matriculants  was 
shown  in  1863,  when  9  per  cent,  is  recorded,  this  during  the  civil 
war.  A  further  examination  of  the  table  will  reveal  the  effect  of  each 
advanced  step  taken  in  the  course  of  instruction.  As  progress  was  made, 
and  the  standard  rapidly  elevated,  a  check  in  the  growth  of  the  class 
may  be  noticed  in  the  year  immediately  following,  but  in  the  succeeding 
year  the  increase  is  evident,  and  the  check  shown  to  be  but  temporary. 
The  twenty-five  years  noted  in  the  table  beginning  with  1860,  give  a 
fair  indication  of  the  educational  labors  of  the  College. 
The  beginning  of  that  notable  decade  in  our  national  history  which 
embraced  the  great  struggle  for  the  supremacy  of  our  Union,  found 
the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  in  a  growing  and  prosperous 
condition,  the  debt  on  the  old  building  on  Filbert  street  was  being 
gradually  extinguished,  the  finances  were  carefully  husbanded,  and 
the  Sinking  Fund  gradually  increased  under  the  persistent  care  and 
watchfulness  of  the  chairman,  Samuel  F.  Troth.  The  breaking  out 
of  the  war,  checked  at  once  the  growth  of  the  classes,  and  in  the  three 
