^'^S.  mif'""}    Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  145 
It  showed,  however,  how  closely  he  is  in  touch  with  the  progress 
of  events  and  how  much  he  has  at  heart  the  work  of  the  college. 
The  dinner  was  held  in  the  celebrated  banquet  hall  of  the  Union 
League,  where  all  of  the  official  dinners  in  honor  of  great  events 
or  the  achievements  of  distinguished  men  were  formerly  held.  On 
the  historic  oval  table  around  which  the  diners  gathered  was  a  mag- 
nificent display  of  flowers,  including  freesia,  narcissus,  antirrhinum, 
and  lilacs  with  a  background  and  setting  of  Smilax  laurifolia  and 
fronds  of  the  Boston  fern.  The  menu,  which  was  well  selected,  was 
served  in  accordance  with  the  service  of  this  famous  club. 
The  printed  menu  was  in  the  form  of  a  booklet,  which  contained 
a  list  of  the  names  of  the  officers,  faculty  and  instructors  of  the 
college  and  of  the  invited  guests,  and  was  bound  in  Morocco  leather 
with  an  imprint  of  the  seal  of  the  college  and  twO'  illustrations,  the 
one  showing  Carpenters'  Hall  where  the  college  was  organized  in 
1 82 1  and  the  other,  the  present  college  building.  On  the  last  page 
inside  the  cover  were  the  words,  "  Organized,  1821,  P.C.P.  Progres- 
sing 191 1." 
At  the  conclusion  of  the  dinner  the  host,  President  French,  read 
an  interesting  historical  sketch  of  the  college,  which  is  published 
in  another  part  of  this  issue  of  this  Journal.  He  then  called 
upon  Hon.  John  E.  Reyburn,  Mayor  of  Philadelphia,  who  delivered 
a  most  earnest  address  on  the  relationship  of  the  institutions  of 
learning  to  the  city.  He  was  generously  applauded  for  his  remarks, 
in  which  he  said  that  he  hoped  that  it  would  be  possible  to  bring 
all  of  the  educational  institutions  of  Philadelphia  together  at  a 
common  centre  on  the  new  Parkway  Boulevard.  He  further  stated 
that  his  idea  was  not  that  they  be  absorbed  or  lose  any  of  their 
individual  character,  but  that  they  might  derive  all  of  the  benefits 
of  close  association  and  neighborly  contact.  Hon.  Henry  F.  Walton, 
President  of  the  Medico-Chirurgical  College,  was  the  next  speaker, 
and  he  heartily  endorsed  all  that  the  Mayor  had  said  in  regard  to 
the  importance  of  the  close  association  of  independent  schools  and 
then  remarked  that  he  was  pleased  to  bring  the  felicitation  of  the 
Medico-Chirurgical  College  to  the  officers  and  faculty  of  the  Phila- 
delphia College  of  Pharmacy  gathered  on  this  eventful  occasion. 
Dr.  J.  W.  Holland,  dean  of  Jefferson  Medical  College,  said  that 
he  brought  the  warmest  congratulations  of  the  "  twin-sister  "  of  the 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.    Tie  stated  that  while  Jefiferson 
was  founded  four  years  later  than  the  Philadelphia  College  of 
