ANovJe0mberrhia9ri^'.  )  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.  757 
presented  the  list  of  nominees  for  Trustees  to  be  voted  for  at  this 
meeting.  In  connection  with  the  report  a  letter  from  Edwin  M. 
Boring,  one  of  the  nominees,  was  read,  requesting  that  his  name  be 
withdrawn  because  of  physical  debility.  He  had  been  a  member  of 
the  Board  of  Trustees  uninterruptedly  for  forty-one  years,  and  he 
thought  a  younger  man.  should  be  chosen.  A  number  of  the  mem- 
bers spoke  appreciatingly  of  Mr.  Boring's  services  and  hoped  he 
would  continue  in  the  services  of  the  College. 
Professor  Cook  requested  that  the  nominations  be  reopened,  and 
this  motion  having  been  adopted  another  name  was  placed  in  nomi- 
nation. Messrs.  Leibert,  Thum  and  Blackwood  were  appointed 
tellers.  While  the  votes  were  being  counted,  Mr.  George  M.  Ber- 
inger  reported  that  the  proposed  amendments  to  the  charter  of  the 
College  were  now  being  considered  by  the  state  authorities  and  it 
was  expected  that  a  favorable  action  would  be  reported. 
Mr.  Beringer  alluded  to  the  coming  Convention  to  revise  the 
United  States  Pharmacopoeia  and  thought  that  we  had  overlooked 
the  important  part  the  College  had  always  taken  in  the  decennial 
revisions  and  suggested  that  a  committee  be  appointed  to  present  to 
the  Convention  in  May,  1920,  a  report  embodying  the  views  of  the 
College  and  recommendations  for  the  revision.  It  was  so  ordered, 
and  the  president  was  authorized  to  appoint  the  committee. 
Dr.  A.  W.  Miller  read  abstracts  from  a  communication  from 
the  University  of  Bonn,  referring  to  some  phases  of  education  re- 
sulting from  war  conditions. 
The  Committee  on  Membership  reported  favorably  on  six  appli- 
cations for  membership  in  the  College.  A  ballot  being  taken  they 
were  unanimously  elected,  as  follows :  Virgil  Coblentz,  New  York 
City;  John  G.  Eby,  Camden,  N.  J.;  J.  Howard  Houck,  Indiana, 
Pa. ;  John  H.  Miller,  Lancaster,  Pa. ;  Harold  R.  Waidelich,  Allen- 
town,  Pa.,  as  active  members,  and  William  G.  Schmidt,  Philadelphia, 
as  associate  member. 
Dean  Charles  H.  La  Wall  reported  that  up  to  this  date  the  ma- 
triculants in  the  first-year  class  in  the  College  numbered  280,  the 
second-year  class  160,  with  increased  classes  in  the  postgraduate 
courses  and  of  special  students.  There  were  thirty-five  women 
students  enrolled  among  the  number.  These  figures  show  a  large 
increase  in  all  the  classes. 
The  tellers  reported  that  Edwin  M.  Boring,  Theodore  Campbell 
