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\  November,  1903. 
to  our  college  by  his  sympathetic  but  rigid  oversight  while  serving 
for  years  on  the  committees  on  Examinations  and  the  Library. 
"  Professor  Lloyd  has  written  of  the  versatility  of  Dr.  Rice  and  of 
his  interest  in  literature  ;  I  had  the  opportunity  of  seeing  his  public 
spirit  and  charity;  for  some  years  ago,  when  Bellevue  Hospital  was 
run  in  the  interests  of  a  political  ring,  he  ardently  desired  and  fur- 
thered the  success  of  the  reform  party  which  was  to  prevent  the 
cruelty  to  the  poor  which  he  saw  daily  and  which  grieved  him. 
"  Gentlemen,  you  have  done  yourself  and  this  college  alike  an 
honor  by  giving  this  beautiful  and  permanent  memorial  of  a  true 
man." 
Various  other  speakers  were  then  called  upon.  Prof.  Joseph  P. 
Remington,  chairman  of  the  Pharmacopceial  Revision  Committee, 
responded  as  follows: 
"  Mr.  president,  Members  of  the  College  of  Pharmacy  of  the  City 
of  New  York,  I  esteem  it  a  great  privilege  to  be  with  you  to-night. 
I  believe  I  am  a  member  of  this  college.  You  are  not  strangers  to 
me.  I  love  to  come  here,  and  when  your  secretary  invited  me  to 
come  here  to-night  and  say  a  few  words  to  you,  I  did  not  see  how 
it  was  possible  for  me  to  get  away,  but  I  have  come.  I  am  glad  to 
be  here.  I  believe  I  would  go  anywhere  to  bear  tribute  to  the 
memory  of  one  of  the  noblest  men  the  sun  ever  shone  upon — 
Charles  Rice.  I  have  had  the  opportunity,  Mr.  President,  within 
the  last  two  years  of  knowing  as  no  other  man  can  know,  of  the 
magnitude  of  this  man's  work.  Mr.  President,  you  know  we  are 
preparing  a  memorial  volume  to  Dr.  Rice,  and  it  has  devolved  upon 
me  to  collect  the  material  for  the  larger  part  of  this  work.  When 
I  have  learned  through  authentic  sources  of  the  inner  life  of  Charles 
Rice,  I  am  amazed,  Mr.  Piesident,  at  the  amount  of  work  that  he 
was  able  to  accomplish.  Charles  Rice  was  true  and  faithful  in  every 
position  in  which  he  was  placed.  From  the  very  first,  when  he  first 
entered  Bellevue  Hospital,  his  faithfulness,  and  particularly  his 
desire  to  do  his  duty,  even  in  the  smallest  particular,  first  called 
attention  to  him,  and  it  was  largely  through  this  intense  desire 
to  do  every  little  detail  that  he  was  called  upon  to  do  with  the 
utmost  fidelity,  that  he  won  his  way  at  first,  and  those  who  read  his 
life  will  find  that  in  the  latter  years  of  his  life,  this  same  fidelity  char- 
acterized everything  that  he  did.  It  made  no  difference  whether  it 
was  working  out  some  obscure  question  in  chemistry  or  some  dififi- 
