THE  AMERICAN 
JOURNAL  OF  PHARMACY. 
MARCH,  ifyj. 
THE  NEW  BUILDING  OF  THE  PHILADELPHIA  CO 
LEGE  OF  PHARMACY,  WITH  A  BRIEF 
HISTORY  OF  THE  OLDER 
BUILDINGS. 
An  Address  delivered  by  Joseph  P.  Remington,  at  the  Opening  Ceremonies, 
When  an  American  institution  has  passed  the  age  of  activity 
allotted  to  man,  the  three-score  years  and  ten  of  olden  time,  and 
still  is  full  of  strength  and  life ;  when  this  institution  has  proved  the 
wisdom  and  sagacity  of  its  founders,  by  exhibiting  in  its  career  of 
seventy-two  years  a  steady  growth ;  and  when  it  can  be  said  that 
those  who  have  been  sent .  forth  under  its  seal  of  approval  are 
among  the  brightest  in  the  profession,  it  may  truly  be  asserted  that 
it  has  firmly  established  its  right  to  exist;  and,  surely,  no  impro- 
priety can  be  attributed  to  it  if,  on  an  occasion  like  this,  a  pause  is 
made  and  sufficient  time  is  taken  to  make  a  brief  retrospect  of  what 
has  been  accomplished  by  this  organization,  which  is  so  well  known 
throughout  the  world  as  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy. 
It  is  especially  appropriate  that  upon  this  day,  on  the  anniversary 
of  the  birth  of  the  Father  of  our  Country,  and  in  this  year,  which 
marks  the  four  hundredth  in  the  history  of  America,  we  should 
meet  to  celebrate  the  completion  of  this  building,  the  present  home 
of  the  first  institution  founded  in  the  New  World  for  the  dissemina- 
tion of  pharmaceutical  knowledge.  There  is  also  a  historical  sig- 
nificance in  the  fact,  that  this  is  the  seventy-second  anniversary  of 
the  initial  meeting  of  the  body,  which  ultimately  became  the  Phila- 
delphia College  of  Pharmacy. 
February  22,  1893. 
