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of  education,  but  pharmaceutical  progress  has  been  retarded, 
largely  because  of  the  lack  of  supporting  legislation  in  many  of  the 
States. 
' 'After  years  of  waiting,  we  may  say  that  now  we  are  on  the 
verge  of  a  great  advance,  and  within  ten  years  more  progress  will 
be  made  than  has  been  recorded  during  the  past  half  century. 
"The  interdependence  of  medicine  and  pharmacy  was  never 
more  in  evidence  than  at  present  for  with  the  introduction  of  biolog- 
ical preparations,  the  physician  is  compelled  to  rely  upon  the  pharma- 
cist for  distinctive  and  important  scientific  assistance  in  combating 
the  manufacture  and  sale  of  worthless  nostrums  and  in  educating  the 
public  in  hygiene  and  health  conservation." 
In  connection  with  this  development  idea,  it  is  interesting  to  note 
the  splendid  future  that  has  been  planned  for  the  Philadelphia  Col- 
lege of  Pharmacy  and  Science.  One  phase  of  this  was  touched  upon 
by  President  Braisted  when  he  spoke  to  the  graduates  and  alumni,  to 
whom  he  was  officially  presented  for  the  first  time  on  the  evening  of 
June  14th.   He  said : 
"My  whole  effort  will  be  devoted  toward  making  the  College  of 
Pharmacy  and  Science  a  larger  and  better  institution.  I  want  to 
help  to  bring  about  the  co-operation  between  medicine  and  pharmacy. 
I  wish,  by  means  of  this  fine  institution,  to  produce  the  super- 
pharmacist  of  the  future. 
"We  are  going  to  start  next  fall  with  an  increased  personnel 
and  enlarged  facilities.  We  must  stay  in  our  old  building  at  145 
North  Tenth  Street  for  three  or  four  years  more,  and  this  summer  it 
will  be  renovated  and  improved  in  many  ways.  But  the  plan  to  se- 
cure funds  with  which  to  construct  a  new  building  has  not  been 
abandoned ;  it  has  been  merely  postponed. 
"There  are  men  now  looking  for  a  site  in  this  city,  and  I  am 
sure  that  they  are  going  to  find  an  extremely  good  one.  I  hope  that 
when  we  do  decide  to  locate  at  a  certain  place,  the  site  will  be  given 
to  us  by  citizens  of  Philadelphia  in  recognition  of  one  of  its  oldest 
and  most  famous  educational  institutions.  I  am  also  sure  that  there 
are  at  least  one  or  two  wealthy  men  here  who  will  come  to  our  aid ; 
there  is  no  doubt  in  my  mind  that  we  will  get  all  of  the  money  that 
we  need." 
As  a  part  of  the  expansion  of  the  College  it  was  announced  dur- 
ing the  centennial  that  beginning  next  fall,  courses  will  be  inaugur- 
ated leading  to  degrees  of  bachelor  of  science  in  pharmacy,  chem- 
istry, bacteriology  and  pharmacognosy.  Other  phases  of  the  pro- 
posed expansion  of  the  College  were  enumerated  by  Dr.  La  Wall  as 
follows : 
