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THE  ADDRESS  OF  HON.  JOHN  E.  REYBURN,  MAYOR  OF  PHILADELPHIA. 
The  address  of  Mayor  Reyburn  was  in  the  nature  of  a  tribute 
to  President  French's  services  "  as  a  citizen  whose  pubHc  spirit  and 
unselfish  labors  have  been  of  the  greatest  value  in  his  relations  to 
this  community." 
He  said:  No  man  other  than  he  could  stand  before  a  Philadel- 
phia audience  to-day  and  claim  with  less  dissent  or  with  more 
truth  that  he  has  performed  his  whole  duty  toward  this  city.  He 
has  given  up  not  simply  honors,  but  even  days  to  studious  thought 
and  active  participation  for  the  advancement  of  the  public  welfare. 
His  services  were  not  perfunctory,  but  enlisted  the  generous  im- 
pulses of  his  nature;  and  he  gave  actively  the  very  best  thought 
and  the  most  strenuous  effort  for  the  good  of  Philadelphia.  I 
stand  here  to-night  to  acknowledge  before  this  assemblage  the 
obligations  I  am  under  personally  to  Mr.  French  for  his  strong 
common  sense  and  for  that  equipoise  of  character  which  made 
his  counsel  and  co-operation  so  valuable.  There  was  with  him  a 
sort  of  holding  things  level,  as  you  know  a  square  man  always 
does ;  and  you  can  tell  instinctively  when  a  man  is  square.  He  has 
that  conservative  characteristic  which  I  might  call  a  holding  back ; 
and  yet  there  was  a  strength  and  a  fervor  in  his  holding  back.  It 
was  a  powerful  influence  in  itself ;  and  I  always  recognized  him  as 
a  safe  guide  and  a  reliable  counsellor." 
His  Honor,  the  Mayor,  further  said :  To  be  the  head  of  a 
great  school  like  that  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy, 
which  for  ninety  years  has  proven  its  worth  in  our  community,  is 
in  itself  an  honor  of  which  any  man  might  be  proud.  It  is  really 
a  great  distinction.  We  know  how  Mr.  French  has  carried  on 
the  work  of  this  institution — not  carried  it  on  in  the  sense  of 
supporting  it  with  money  or  with  great  gifts  and  all  that,  but  by 
his  personal,  every  day  interests  in  its  management,  in  the  welfare 
of  its  students  and  in  all  that  springs  from  an  institution  of  this 
kind  and  that  makes  it  efficient  and  a  benefit  to  the  community  in 
which  it  is  located.  As  its  head,  its  director  and  its  guide,  he  has 
kept  the  College  in  the  exalted  position  which  it  occupies  to-day 
and  has  occupied  in  all  the  years  of  its  useful  existence.  There 
can  be  no  question  that  it  is  to  have  a  more  extended  sphere  of 
activity.    Indeed,  in  the  logic  of  events,  it  cannot  fail  to  share 
