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PHARMACY,  ioo  YEARS  AGO  * 
By  H.  V.  Arny,  Ph.G.  (1889)  ;  Ph.M.  (1919). 
Introduction. 
All  hail!  Alma  Abater,  upon  this  thy  Centennial!  Permit  one 
of  thy  children  in  the  midst  of  this  distinguished  assemblage  of 
thy  sons  and  thy  daughters  to  offer  a  tribute  of  affection,  of  esteem 
and  of  gratitude.  For  a  century,  those  entrusted  with  thy  affairs 
have  maintained  a  great  ideal ;  the  conducting  of  a  college  of  phar- 
macists, for  pharmacists  by  pharmacists.  May  this  ideal,  success- 
fully maintained  for  one  hundred  years,  actuate  thy  disciples  during 
the  hundreds  of  years  to  come. 
America,  ioo  Years  Ago. 
Eighteen  Twenty-One,  the  year  that  James  Monroe  began  his 
second  presidential  term,  the  Era  of  Good  Feeling,  after  an  election 
in  which  he  secured  all  of  the  electoral  votes  save  one;  the  term  that 
brought  into  being  the  Monroe  Doctrine  (1823). 
Eighteen  Twenty-One,  when  John  Quincy  Adams  was  Secre- 
tary of  State,  the  very  year  he  issued  his  Report  on  Weights  and 
Measures,  in  some  respects  the  most  remarkable  dissertation  on 
metrology  ever  written. 
Eighteen  Twenty-One,  when  John  Marshall  was  Chief  Justice 
of  the  Supreme  Court  and  was  clarifying  the  Constitution  by  his 
illuminating  decisions. 
Eighteen  Twenty-One,  when  John  Adams  and  Thomas  Jeffer- 
son were  living  in  distinguished  retirement  awaiting  the  Final 
Summons,  which,  when  it  came  to  both  of  them  upon  the  Semi- 
centennial of  the  signing  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence  (July 
4,  1826),  created  the  most  interesting  coincidence  in  American  his- 
tory. 
Eighteen  Tweny-One,  when  Philadelphia  was  the  largest  city 
in  the  United  States,  a  thriving  place  of  over  137,000  inhabitants; 
when  New  York  ranked  second,  with  over  123,000  inhabitants; 
when  New  Orleans,  the  delightful  city  depicted  in  Cable's  Grandis- 
simes,  had  over  40,000  inhabitants ;  when  Cincinnati  was  a  recently 
*An  address  delivered  at  the  Centennial  Celebration  of  Founders'  Day. 
February  23,  1921. 
