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The  graduates  of  1851  numbered  19;  those  of  1854  reached  26; 
those  of  1856  numbered  28,  with  112  students  enrolled.  The 
College  was  steadily  marching  onward  and  upward.  The  gradu- 
ates of  1869  numbered  48;  those  of  1870,  51  ;  and  for  many  years 
past  the  roll  has  numbered  considerably  over  a  hundred. 
At  a  special  meeting  December  10,  1867,  the  first  steps  were 
taken  to  purchase  the  present  site  of  the  College  buildings,  and  in 
the  autumn  of  the  following  year,  the  institution  was  removed  to 
its  present  location,  Tenth  Street  below  Race.  At  the  forty-seventh 
annual  meeting,  March  30,  1868,  the  following  quaint  "farewell 
minute  "  was  read  and  adopted : 
"  The  members  of  the  College  are  reminded  that  the  present 
is  the  last  meeting  of  the  College  within  the  walls  of  the  present 
building,  where,  for  many  years  they  have  so  pleasantly  conferred 
together.  On  separating,  and  bidding  adieux  to  the  present  locahty, 
they  hope  that  their  next  regular  assembling  will  be  under  pleasant 
auspices  in  a  building  much  better  adapted  to  the  growing  neces- 
sities of  the  College,  and  that  each  member  will  feel  a  renewed 
interest  in  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy." 
Renewed  interest  was  awakened ;  and  during  the  forty  odd  years 
the  College  has  continued  to  occupy  its  present  home  it  has  un- 
ceasingly grown,  and  strengthened,  and  developed  in  every  direction 
until  it  stands  to-day,  as  it  justly  merits,  at  the  head  of  all  in- 
stitutions of  the  kind  in  the  world. 
In  the  ninety  years  of  its  existence  about  20,000  students  have 
been  instructed ;  some  of  these  are  widely  known  as  the  brightest 
and  most  successful  professional  and  business  men  of  the  time, 
measuring  up  to  a  very  high  standard  of  learning  and  efficiency. 
And  it  is  of  more  than  ordinary  interest  to  note,  that  it  is  a  rare 
exception  to  find  a  large  pharmaceutical  establishment  in  the  United 
States  that  is  not  directly  or  indirectly  under  the  management  of 
a  graduate  or  former  student  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of 
Pharmacy. 
With  a  commanding  college  home  furnished  with  all  scientific 
paraphernalia  of  the  most  modern  type ;  splendidly  equipped  de- 
partments of  research  and  experiment ;  advanced  courses  of  in- 
struction that  would  have  appalled  the  early  graduate ;  a  corps  of 
