^""'M^risn Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  239 
and  future  prosperity  in  wider  fields  of  usefulness  and  research. 
Surely  she  has  fulfilled  the  prediction  made  by  that  eminent 
scholar,  medical  teacher,  and  author,  Dr.  Geo.  B.  Wood,  "  that 
the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  would  render  the  City  of 
Philadelphia  the  centre  of  pharmaceutical  education." 
The  success  that  has  attended  the  College  is  undoubtedly  very 
largely  due  to  the  exemplary  men  who  have  been  elected  as  officers. 
The  presidency  has  always  been  filled  by  men  of  marked  ability 
and  sterling  character  and  broad  experience  who  have  been  promi- 
nent in  public  afifairs  and  assumed  a  full  share  of  the  duties  and 
responsibilities  of  useful  citizenship.  Eight  gentlemen  have  been 
elected  as  the  chief  executive  since  the  founding  of  the  College 
in  182 1. 
But  I  must  not  forget  the  admonitions  Doth  spoken  and  implied 
by  the  chairman  of  the  committee  in  charge  of  this  public  function. 
First.  He  wanted  me  to  limit  my  speech  to  two  minutes  for  fear 
of  tiring  the  audience.  I  crave  your  indulgence  just  a  while  longer 
even  if  I  do  exceed  his  time  limit.  Second.  I  was  to  refrain 
from  poetical  effusion.  No  fear  of  driving  you  away  in  this 
manner,  the  muse  is  sleeping,  if  not  dead.  Third.  I  was  not  to 
attempt  oratorical  flights.  He  possibly  did  not  realise  what  a  dead 
weight  I  am  in  this  respect  as  I  have  never  been  accused  by  any 
one  of  being  an  orator.  But  this  was  not  the  reason  he  assigned. 
He  intimated  that  the  orators  would  follow  and  that  the  pyro- 
technical  display  would  be  the  finale.  Again  I  was  not  to  delve 
into  historical  reminiscences,  but  I  cannot  refrain  from  straying 
from  his  straight  and  narrow  injunction  and  reminiscencing  just  a 
little. 
The  first  president  was  Charles  Marshall,  of  whom  it  has  been 
said    that  few  nobler  men  ever  lived." 
The  second  was  William  Lehman,  a  scholarly  pharmacist  and 
legislator  who  for  fifteen  consecutive  years  was  elected  to  the 
Pennsylvania  Legislature  and  whose  name  was  associated  with 
many  of  the  internal  improvements  of  the  State. 
The  third  was  Daniel  B.  Smith,  who  served  as  president  for 
twenty-five  years.  He  was  a  happy  combination  of  business  man, 
philanthropist,  literary  and  scientific  scholar,  teacher,  editor,  and 
author.  A  man  remarkable  for  the  versatility  of  his  attainments 
and  who  was  associated  actively  with  most  of  the  scientific  and 
charitable  organizations  then  existing  in  the  city. 
