Novembers'-}      New  York  College  of  Pharmacy.  545 
Mr.  Charles  S.  Erb,  president  of  the  Alumni  Association  said: 
"  As  a  comparatively  young  man  in  the  college  as  well  as  in 
pharmacy,  and  particularly  as  a  young  trustee,  I  did  not  of  course 
come  in  contact  with  Dr.  Rice  as  much  as  some  of  the  previous 
speakers  have,  but  I  must  say,  whenever  I  had  occasion  to  meet  the 
Doctor  and  converse  with  him,  everything  that  the  former  speakers 
said  was  exactly  true.  I  did  not  like  to  encroach  very  much  on  his 
time,  especially  in  so  far  as  the  Alumni  Association  probably  had 
not  occasion  to  call  on  him  in  very  many  particulars.  The  Alumni 
Association  quite  naturally  always  took  a  keen  interest  in  every, 
thing  connected  with  its  Alma  Mater,  and  certainly  it  is  so  to-day. 
One  of  the  positions  that  the  Alma  Mater  looked  to,  one  of  the 
positions  that  the  members  of  the  Alumni  looked  to,  especially  before 
they  are  eligible  to  membership,  is  the  Examination  Committee.  It 
is  quite  necessary  for  a  student  of  the  college  to  have  passed  through 
the  ordeals  of  the  Examination  Committee  before  he  is  graduated 
and  after  graduation  admitted  to  the  Alumni  Association,  and  with- 
out doubt  every  student  of  this  college  who  has  appeared  before 
that  committee,  so  long  as  Dr.  Charles  Rice  was  connected  with  it 
would  always  have  a  kind  word  for  the  Doctor.  They  never  once 
could  say  that  he  at  any  time  was  too  harsh,  but  always  wanted  just 
exactly  what  was  best  for  the  student,  and  many  of  them  can  look 
back  with  kindness,  not  perhaps  that  they  felt  his  individual  pres- 
ence, because  very  often  the  Doctor  would  work  through  another. 
The  Doctor  was  the  guiding  hand  on  the  Examination  Committee 
and  eventually  things  would  have  to  pass  his  muster ;  but  I  feel 
confident  that  the  members  of  the  Alumni  Association  will  always 
bear  his  memory  in  their  hearts.  I  feel  that  they,  as  members  of 
the  profession  of  pharmacy,  must  certainly  look  upon  his  great  work 
in  the  pharmacopceial  revision  as  having  raised  the  standard,  and, 
naturally,  members  of  the  Alumni  are  constantly  trying  to  do  this, 
to  always  make  corrections,  to  stand  to-day  in  the  top-notch  of  the 
profession." 
Dr.  Chandler  then  said  :  "  We  have  with  us  Dr.  Rice's  pastor, 
the  Rev.  St.  George  Young,"  and  then  invited  him  to  say  a  few 
words.    Dr.  Young  said  : 
"  Mr.  President  and  gentlemen  whom  I  may  address:  As  the 
pastor  of  Dr.  Rice  I  will  only  speak  a  few  words  with  reference  to 
his  humanity.    I  am  sorry  to  say  I  was  not  a  close  pastor  of  Dr. 
