246  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.     {^'"  May'-i.m*'"'"" 
life  was  twenty-one  years.  To-day,  in  some  of  the  States  of  this 
Union,  the  average  length  of  life  is  more  than  forty  years.  Is  not 
that  partly  due  to  the  fact  that  the  druggist  has  learned  how  to 
compound  prescriptions  for  people  who  are  sick,  how  to  administer 
medicine  so  that  his  drugs  may  not  be  harmful  but  their  use  may 
redound  to  the  health  and  the  welfare  of  the  people  ? 
No  one  can  deny  that  our  colleges  of  pharmacy  have  done 
very  much  to  add  to  human  longevity.  For  that  reason  a  college 
like  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  which,  if  my  educational 
history  is  all  right,  was  not  only  a  pioneer,  but  the  first  institution 
of  its  kind  on  the  face  of  the  earth,  deserves  an  amount  of  recog- 
nition, in  the  history  of  education,  that  cannot  be  accorded  to  an 
ordinary  school.  Is  it  not  a  pioneer,  is  it  not  a  forerunner,  is  it 
not  the  parent  of  a  great  many  schools  that  are  now  efficient 
agencies  in  curing  disease  and  in  lengthening  human  life? 
Max  Mueller  says  that  every  public  man  leads  three  lives 
while  but  one  life  is  seen  by  the  people  at  large.  That  is  the  man's 
public  life.  Another  life  is  seen  only  by  the  man's  intimates,  by  his 
wife  and  by  those  who  live  with  him  under  the  same  roof.  That 
is  the  man's  private  life.  I  have  always  felt  that  a  man  deserves 
great  praise  when  his  private  life  is  in  strict  accord  with  his  public 
life.  And  it  is  for  that  reason  that  we  are  constrained  to  praise 
the  President  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.  What 
is  the  third  life  that  every  man  in  public  life  leads?  The  third  life 
is  the  inner  life,  visible  only  to  the  man  himself  and  to  his  Maker 
on  high.  When  a  man's  inner  life  corresponds  with  his  private 
life  and  his  public  life,  then  we  have  a  model  man;  the  private 
life  and  the  public  life  of  the  man  being  but  an  expression  of 
that  inner  life  which  is  visible  only  to  the  man  himself  and  to 
his  Maker.  From  all  that  I  have  been  able  to  learn  of  the  gentle- 
man whose  picture  is  before  us,  these  three  types  of  life  have  been 
in  harmony  throughout  his  long  career. 
Now,  one  word  more  and  I  am  done.  I  have  had  my  dreams ; 
and  when  I  visited  the  College  of  Pharmacy  and  saw  how  every 
inch  of  space  had  been  utilized  I  could  not  help  wishing  for  that 
contemplated  boulevard  with  plenty  of  ground  and  the  requisite 
facilities  to  accommodate  this  institution.  Philadelphia  is  the  centre 
of  medical,  dental  and  pharmaceutical  education.  When  I  was  in 
the  Berlin  University,  if  a  man  was  a  Philadelphia  dentist  he  had 
plenty  of  practice.    Our  University  here  draws  a  hundred  more 
