242  Abstract  of  President's  Address.      { Am,Ma°y ri9i5arm* 
to  comply  with  this  requirement  or  penalty — as  it  may  properly  be 
termed — a  student  leaving  your  institution  for  that  State,  although  in 
many,  if  not  in  most,  cases  qualified  to  teach  in  any  one  of  its  schools 
of  pharmacy,  must  submit,  as  stated  above,  to  being  penalized  for 
graduating  from  the  oldest  and,  your  President  thinks,  the  best 
College  of  Pharmacy  in  the  United  States.  Your  President  earnestly 
hopes  that  the  membership  of  your  College  will  stand  strongly  to- 
gether, firmly  bound,  with  the  intention  of  maintaining  her  present 
high  standard. 
It  would  be  a  source  of  great  regret  to  your  President  to  see  the 
curriculum  of  your  institution  changed  to  lessen  the  present  high 
standard  that  is  maintained,  and  he  desires  to  express  the  hope  that 
not  only  the  membership  of  your  College,  but  that  the  men  in  whose 
hands  is  entrusted  the  management  of  its  affairs,  will  not  be  found 
wanting  in  courage  to  enable  them  to  stand  up  and  fight  for  what  they 
believe  to  be  right,  even  though  it  may  be  against  great  odds ;  and 
he  ventures  to  express  the  hope  that  their  consciousness  of  having 
done  what  they  believe  to  be  for  the  best  interests  of  the  institution  in 
maintaining  its  present  high  standard  and  leadership  in  the  pharma- 
ceutical world  will  be  sufficient  recompense  for  the  anxiety  and  labor 
which  they  have  and  will  be  forced  to  bear. 
But  six  more  years  remain  until  ^your  centenary  anniversary 
occurs,  and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  every  effort  will  be  made  towards 
securing  for  this  grand  old  institution  a  new  home,  with  proper  and 
commodious  buildings  and  grounds  surrounding  same  to  enable  it 
to  continue  the  noble  work  it  has  been  doing  in  the  past. 
To  those  of  the  officers  and  faculty  who  have  cooperated,  with 
much  self-sacrifice,  with  your  President  during  the  past  year  he 
wishes  to  extend  his  appreciation  and  to  express  the  hope  that  those 
who  have  not  been  in  accord  with  his  views  may  at  least  credit  him 
with  doing  what  he  believed  to  be  for  the  best  interests  of  the  in- 
stitution. He  has  no  personal  ambition  to  serve — his  sole  compen- 
sation being  the  hope  that  the  College  may  continue  to  prosper, 
whether  he  continues  as  your  chief  executive  or  not,  and  that  from 
the  present  date  until  the  centenary  has  been  reached  hearty  co- 
operation and  united  action  may  be  the  sole  purpose  and  inspiration 
of  all  those  connected  with  the  College,  officially  or  otherwise. 
Respectfully  submitted, 
Howard  B.  French. 
March  22,  1915. 
