544  New  York  College  of  Pharmacy. 
is  characterized  by  the  almost  shrinking  modesty  which  has  made 
him  a  worthy  example  for  all  to  follow,  and  I  wish  to  add  in  the 
name  of  journalism  that  tribute  to  his  wonderful  work  in  that  field 
of  endeavor." 
Mr.  Ewen  Mclntyre,  Honorary  President  of  the  College  of  Phar- 
macy of  the  City  of  New  York,  paid  the  following  tribute  to  the 
memory  of  Dr.  Rice  : 
"  Mr.  President  and  gentlemen :  I  wish  I  had  the  gift  to  add  to  the 
words  that  have  been  spoken  here  to-night  in  relation  to  our  friend 
Dr.  Rice.  It  was  my  great  privilege  for  many  years  to  be  in  close 
association  with  him.  I  knew  him  well.  He  was  ever  and  always 
ready  to  give  any  advice,  any  assistance,  any  knowledge  that  he  had 
to  any  one  coming  to  him  and  asking  for  it.  That  I  know  thor- 
oughly. He  had  a  faculty  of  arranging  his  times  for  doing  his  work 
that  was  very  remarkable.  For  many  years  he  spent  his  hour  of 
vacation  from  Bellevue  at  our  old  college  in  Twenty-third  Street, 
arranging  the  books  and  looking  after  the  interests  of  the  college, 
and  taking  up  studies  of  his  own  at  the  College  of  Pharmacy,  where 
he  was  so  much  interested.  It  was  thought  by  the  friends  here  in 
the  college  that  it  would  be  a  proper  thing  to  make  him  some  little 
gift,  and  I  will  give  you  a  little  anecdote  illustrating  very  largely  the 
kind  of  man  he  was.  The  money  required  was  subscribed.  It  was 
then  found  that  he  was  very  anxious  to  get  a  copy  of  the  Sanscrit 
dictionary  being  published  in  England  in  parts.  I  had  the  pleasure 
of  presenting  him  with  it,  and  a  few  days  after,  going  over  to  the 
college  I  met  a  man  coming  out,  covered  with  red  hair,  a  rough- 
looking  character.  When  I  went  in  I  asked  Dr.  Rice  who  his  friend 
was.  He  said,  '  That  is  a  Russian  who  is  coming  here  now.  I  am 
taking  lessons  in  Russian.'  Here  was  a  man,  master  of  some  twenty 
different  languages,  and  then  undertaking  at  that  time  of  life  to 
master  Russian.  It  was  not  only  his  pharmaceutical  side  that  was 
so  remarkable;  it  was  all  sides;  that  he  could  speak  things  so  easily, 
understand  so  readily,  was  remarkable.  I  do  not  think  I  ever  saw 
a  man  with  so  many  sides  to  him  as  Dr.  Rice  had.  I  do  not  think 
I  ever  worked  with  a  man  that  was  so  kindly  and  who  so  easily  fell 
into  the  ways  to  make  whatever  he  is  doing  a  success.  A  most 
remarkable  man,  and  it  gives  me  great  pleasure,  gentlemen,  here 
to  night  to  hear  the  words  that  have  been  spoken.  I  feel  that  Dr. 
Rice  deserves  it  all." 
