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sonality  and  the  faculty  of  winning  friends  for  the  institution.  And 
he  should  be  enabled  to  devote  all  his  time  and  energy  to  the 
upbuilding  of  the  college.  With  the  trustees  and  members  I  shall 
seek  diligently  for  such  a  man  to  take  the  place  I  am  now  filling 
temporarily. 
"In  the  meantime,  there  is  every  assurance  of  success  for  the 
college,  not  only  in  the  immediate  task  of  raising  funds  to  develop 
the  institution  and  broaden  the  scope  of  its  work,  but  in  the  task 
of  increasing  its  usefulness  to  humanity.  I  know  we  will  have 
one  hundred  per  cent,  co-operation  from  the  retail  druggists  of 
Philadelphia,  and  I  believe  the  druggists  generally  throughout  the 
country  will  support  us  whole-heartedly." 
The  first  task  of  the  new  administration  will  be  the  raising  of 
a  two-million-dollar  endowment  fund.  For  a  century  the  college 
has  derived  nearly  its  entire  income  from  tuition  fees  from  students 
and  dues  from  members  and  the  work  has  necessarily  been  ham- 
pered. Notwithstanding  this  fact,  the  Philadelphia  'College  of 
Pharmacy  and  Science  has  maintained  the  lead  it  took  in  1821, 
and  has  made  many  valuable  contributions  to  the  sciences  of  Phar- 
macy and  Materia  Medica.  As  an  example  of  the  recognition 
accorded  it,  one  might  mention  the  Revision  Committee  of  the 
Pharmacopoeia,  where  not  only  is  the  chairman,  E.  Fullerton  Cook, 
a  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  professor,  but  twelve  out  of 
the  thirty-three  pharmacists  on  the  committee  are  alumni  of  the 
institution. 
Because  of  the  remarkable  contributions  to  science  and  to  the 
profession  of  Pharmacy  made  by  the  college,  the  officers  and  trustees 
have  every  confidence  in  a  generous  response  on  the  part  of  the 
public.  With  the  fund  to  be  raised  scholarships  will  be  endowed, 
a  new  site  in  the  most  highly  desirable  section  of  Philadelphia  will 
be  obtained,  administration  and  research  buildings  will  be  con- 
structed and  the  foundation  laid  for  growth  and  progress  in  keeping 
with  the  history  of  the  college. 
Already  an  option  has  been  secured  on  a  large  plot  of  ground 
facing  the  new  Fairmount  Parkway,  which  is  being  developed  as 
one  of  the  most  beautiful  thoroughfares  in  the  United  States.  An 
architect  is  drawing  plans  which  call  for  a  central  administration 
building  with  four  wings  to  house  research  laboratories 
To  raise  the  endowment  fund  desired,  the  entire  country  has 
been  divided  into  districts,  in  each  of  which  a  committee  has  been 
elected  by  graduates  of  the  institution  residing  in  that  particular 
