Am.  Tour.  Pharm. 
July,  1921. 
Centennial  Celebration. 
THE  CENTENNIAL  CELEBRATION  OF  THE  PHILADEL- 
PHIA COLLEGE  OF  PHARMACY  AND  SCIENCE. 
Including  a  Report  of  the  Graduating  Exercises. 
The  Centennial  Celebration  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of 
Pharmacy  and  Science,  held  in  Philadelphia  from  June  12th  to  15th, 
is  of  nation-wide  interest;  for  it  marked  the  Centennary  also  of 
Pharmaceutical  Education  in  America.  It  was  the  occasion  for  a 
retrospect  reaching  back  almost  to  the  very  beginning  of  American 
Pharmacy, — and  for  the  summing  up  of  its  future  possibilities. 
The  belief  was  expressed  by  Rear-Admiral  William  C.  Braisted, 
the  new  President  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  and 
Science,  and  by  Dean  Charles  H.  LaWall,  as  well  as  by  other  promi- 
nent educators  who  attended  the  exercises  that  pharmacy  and  medi- 
cine must  eventually  come  together  in  a  field  of  co-operation;  that 
the  profession 'of  pharmacy,  one  of  the  oldest  in  history,  must  step 
forward  and  upward  to  the  higher  plane  now  occupied  by  the  other 
professions. 
These  speakers  stated  more  than  once  that  this  advance  is  at 
hand.  In  his  address  at  the  reception  tendered  to  him  in  the 
Bellevue-Stratford  Hotel,  President  Braisted  told  the  graduates  to 
do  more  than  become  just  druggists. 
"A  pharmacist  should  employ  much  of  his  time  in  research 
work,  so  that  he  may  fit  in  with  the  general  advance  in  dignity  and 
importance  th?t  is  coming  to  pharmacy,"  he  declared.  "Each  man 
should  have  in  the  back  of  his  drug  store  a  laboratory,  where  he 
could  devote  hours  to  experimentation  and  research,  where  he  could 
test  the  purity  of  water  and  of  milk,  where  he  could  be  of  assistance 
to  the  community  doctor  and  make  himself  a  valuable  aid  to  the  pub- 
lic. This  work  would  jpe  useful  in  large  cities,  and  it  would  be  in- 
valuable in  small  centres  of  population,  where,  at  present,  there  are 
no  laboratories.  It  would  be  a  big  step  toward  the  coming  co-opera- 
tion of  medicine  and  pharmacy." 
In  his  predictions,  Dr.  LaWall  said  to  the  delegates  to  the  cen- 
tennial : 
"The  teaching  of  pharmacy  was  inaugurated  in  this  country 
one  hundred  years  ago  by  the  apothecaries  of.  Philadelphia  when 
they  founded  the  College  of  Pharmacy  and  Science.  Since  then  the 
institution  has  undergone  many  changes,  as  have  all  other  branches 
