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clerk  in  a  corporation  drug  store;  (b)  he  may  be  a  proprietor  of 
a  commercial  store,  where  salesmanship  is  the  keynote,  even  as 
it  is  in  the  corporation  store;  (c)  he  may  become  a  prescription 
specialist,  to  whom  physicians  turn  for  expert  advice,  even  as  the 
physicians  of  1821  turned  to  Marshall,  to  Milhau,  to  Durand  and 
to  Ducatel;  (d)  he  may  be  a  trained  pharmaceutical  chemist  or 
pharamacognosist  employed  in  a  manufacturing  plant.  This  is  not 
the  time  to  discuss  these  phases  of  modern  pharmacy  beyond  the 
bare  statement  that  the  options  may  be  best  expressed  by  the  French 
saying,  chacun  d  son  gout. 
.  Conclusion. 
In  1821,  the  Founders  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy 
began  this  great  institution  for  the  purpose  of  training  apprentices 
to  become  honest  and  efficient  druggists.  It  was  an  organization 
of  pharmacists  for  pharmacists,  and  this  ideal  has  been  faithfully 
upheld  for  one  century.  It  is  not  improper  to  say  that  whatever 
faults  may  be  found  in  the  century  of  stewardship  have  been  due 
to  the  faithful  execution  of  this  principle.  Designed  originally  to 
train  retail  pharmacists,  as  the  decades  have  rolled  by,  the  College 
has  met  changing  conditions  in  such  a  manner  that  it  continues  to 
be  of  the  greatest  and  broadest  service  to  all  phases  of  American 
pharmacy.  Thus  when  the  time  was  ripe,  laboratory  courses  of 
instruction  were  instituted,  courses  that  brought  inspiration  as  well 
as  knowledge  to  those  who  were  fortunate  enough  to  take  the  work. 
Thus  when  the  old-time  apprenticeship  system  began  to  break  down, 
when  the  retail  druggist  became  unmindful  of  his  duty  as  preceptor, 
when  the  commercialization  of  pharmacy  in  the  modern  sense,  was 
at  its  beginning,  the  College  was  the  first  to  start  a  commercial 
course  that  even  to  this  day  reflects  credit  upon  its  originators. 
And  now  at  the  dawn  of  the  new  century  of  its  existence,  the 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  Ijas  become  the  Philadelphia 
College  of  Pharmacy  and  Science.  To  its  old  graduates  the  Col- 
lege will  always  remain  the  beloved  "Philadelphia  College  of  Phar- 
macy," but  the  new  name  possesses  a  striking  significance.  During 
the  last  half-century  the  university  movement  in  pharmacy  has 
brought  about  the  anomalous  condition  that  its  exponents  seem  at 
times  ashamed  that  they  are  pharmacists,  and  manifest  an  apparent 
desire  to  make  pharmacy  a  minor  topic  in  a  course  supposedly 
designed  to  train  a  young  man  or  woman  to  be  a  pharmacist.  It 
