Am  jour.  Pharm. )  Centennial  Celebration.  5°3 
July,  1921.  J 
The  conducting  of  a  series  of  fifteen  lectures  on  popular  scien- 
tific subjects  in  the  College. 
The  development  of  research  service  to  the  medical  profession. 
The  institution  of  research  departments,  which  shall  aid  the 
manufacturing  interests  allied  to  pharmacy. 
The  founding  of  laboratories  for  the  express  purpose  of  serv- 
ing the  City  and  State  in  an  impartial  solution  of  problems  such  as 
the  quality  of  foods,  the  purity  of  drugs  and  chemicals  and  other 
scientific  questions  affecting  the  public  welfare. 
The  development  of  pure  scientific  research. 
The  development  of  a  public  museum  of  drug  and  chemical 
products  and-  pharmaceutical  and  chemical  manufactures. 
The  creation  of  a  botanical  garden,  particularly  devoted  to 
plants  of  medical  and  economic  importance. 
The  proper  housing  of  the  present  library  of  more  than  20,000 
volumes  of  scientific  works. 
Leaving  aside  the  question  of  the  significance  that  underlay  the 
celebration,  it  was  upon  the  face  a  most  pronounced  success.  The 
plans  for  the  celebration  had  been  several  months  in  the  fruition, 
and  as  a  result  members  of  the  alumni  in  all  parts  of  the  country 
had  received  invitations  long  in  advance  of  the  date  set  for  the  be- 
ginning of  the  exercises.  It  is  estimated  that  more  than  one  thou- 
sand of  the  ''old  grads"  attended,  some  of  them  coming  from  points 
as  far  removed  as  the  Pacific  Coast.  The  events  were  also  partici- 
pated in  by  the  two  hundred  and  twenty-five  students  of  the  graduat- 
ing class,  the  largest  such  body  in  the  past  twenty-five  years. 
The  baccalaureate  service  which  opened  the  centennial  was 
held  on  Sunday  afternoon,  June  12th,  in  the  Episcopal  Church  of 
St.  Luke  and  the  Epiphany,  at  Thirteenth  and  Spruce  Streets.  An 
appropriate  sermon  was^  preached  there  by  the  rector  of  the  church, 
the  Rev.  Dr.  David  M.  Steele. 
On  Monday  afternoon  the  alumni  met  in  a  lecture  room  at  the 
College  and  there  expressed  their  unqualified  endorsement  of  the 
selection  of  Admiral  Braisted  as  President  of  the  institution.  This 
was  especially  gratifying  in  view  of  the  fact  that  it  was  the  first  time 
the  name  of  the  new  president  had  been  put  before  the  alumni  since 
his  election.  After  an  address  by  the  retiring  president  of  the 
Alumni  Association.  Dr.  William  Duffield  Robinson,  an  election  of 
officers  for  the  coming  year  was  held,  and  the  following  men  were 
chosen : 
