AnSepCtUr'i921iarm*}     High-Lights  in  History  of  Phila.  C.  of  Phar.  607 
The  aim  of  the  Quaker  founders  of  the  College — «and  their  influence 
persists  to  this  day — was  to  give  to  the  youth  of  the  land  the  most 
practical  and  thorough  collegiate  pharmaceutical  education  at  the 
lowest  possible  cost.  The  intent  was  not  to  build  up  a  money-making 
institution,  but  to  train  men  and  women  in  pharmacy,  and  the  original 
charter  contained  the  provision  (later  eliminated)  that  the  annual 
income  of  the  College  from  all  real  and  personal  estate  should  not 
exceed  five  thousand  dollars.  And  who  shall  say  that  there  is  not 
wisdom  and  truth  in  this  Quaker  philosophy  of  simplicity  and  thrift 
in  education ;  because,  it  is  not  bricks  and  mortar  that  make  an  edu- 
cational institution  great — it  is  the  brains  within  the  bricks  and  mor- 
tar— the  brains  of  earnest,  able  and  devoted  teachers  reacting  with 
the  brains  of  youth,  eager  to  learn,  to  think  and  to  do ! 
During  the  first  fifty  years  (1821-71)  the  instruction  of  the 
College  was  in  materia  medica,  pharmacy  and  chemistry,  and  in  the 
last  four  years  of  that  period,  in  botany,  also;  and  it  was  wholly 
didactic. 
In  1846  an  epoch-making  advance  was  made,  when  pharmacy 
was  recognized  as  a  distinct  branch  by  the  establishment  of  the  chair 
of  theory  and  practice  of  pharmacy,  and  the  chair  of  pharmaceu- 
tical and  general  chemistry  was  changed  to  chemistry.  In  1867,  the 
chair  of  materia  medica  was  changed  to  materia  medica  and  botany, 
and  field  work  in  botany  was  begun. 
During  the  past  fifty  years  (1871-1921)  many  additions  to  the 
curriculum  have  been  made,  such  as  analytical  chemistry,  practical 
or  operative  pharmacy,  pharmaceutical  chemistry,  commercial  phar- 
macy, pharmaceutical  jurisprudence,  chemical  control  in  manufac- 
turing pharmacy,  scientific  research,  bacteriology  and  hygiene,  Latin 
and  pharmaceutical  arithmetic,  as  well  as  special  courses  in 
technical  chemistry,  applied  bacteriology,  technical  microscopy, 
physiologic  assaying,  clinical  chemistry,  advanced  pharmacognosy, 
and  perfumery,  and  the  post-graduate  courses  leading  to  the  degrees 
of  bachelor  of  science  in  pharmacy,  chemistry,  pharmacognosy  and 
bacteriology. 
In  1897,  the  chair  of  materia  medica  and  botany  was  divided 
into  materia  medica,  including  physiology,  and  into  botany,  includ- 
ing pharmacognosy. 
In  1868,  when  the  College  moved  to  its  present  site,  it  had 
three  instructors;  today  it  has  twenty-three,  then  146  students,  to- 
