THE  AMERICAN 
JOURNAL  OF  PHARMACY 
APRIL,  1895. 
EDUCATIONAL  DEVELOPMENT  IN  THE  PHILADELPHIA 
COLLEGE  OF  PHARMACY. 
By  Joseph  P.  Remington. 
Pharmacy  must  advance  ;  with  the  extraordinary  growth  in  the 
general  educational  field,  with  the  striking  progress  which  has  char- 
acterized the  methods  of  imparting  pharmaceutical  knowledge  in  the 
last  decade,  and  with  the  absolute  necessity  of  higher  and  more 
thorough  education  of  those  who  enter  the  ranks,  it  must  be  appar- 
ent to  all  that  the  college  which  fails  to  come  up  to  its  full  measure 
of  the  demands  made  upon  it  by  the  ever-widening  and  rapidly- 
growing  sphere  of  action,  must  fall  behind  ;  on  the  other  hand,  the 
institution  which  pushes  recklessly  forward  so  far  in  advance  that  it 
cannot  carry  with  it  the  main  body,  will  soon  find  itself  lost  in  the 
clouds  and  its  usefulness  greatly  impaired,  if  not  irretrievably 
ruined.  Without  a  progressive  element  in  a  college,  destruction  is 
certain;  without  wise  foresight  and  accurate  judgment  with  the 
restraints  imposed  by  the  conditions  of  its  clientele,  serious  damage 
is  equally  certain. 
The  success  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  must  be 
attributed  in  the  past  to  the  wisdom  of  those  who  have,  during  the 
last  seventy-five  years,  guided  its  destinies.  In  its  early  history,  in 
the  day  of  small  things,  a  total  class  of  twenty  students  was 
regarded  as  a  great  encouragement ;  when,  in  the  course  of  time,  its 
income  exceeded  its  expenses;  when,  more  than  this,  the  college 
proved  to  its  faithful  sponsors  that  it  was  fulfiling  its  mission,  and 
when,  finally,  it  became  the  recognized  centre  of  pharmaceutical 
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