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still  living,  honored  representatives  who  have  done  yeoman  service 
in  the  upbuilding  of  our  institution,  but  the  present  sketch  would  be 
most  incomplete  did  I  not  refer  to  one  who  has  borne  the  heat  and 
burden  of  the  day  for  the  past  forty-three  years  as  a  teacher  in 
our  institution,  one  who  has  won  national  and  international  renown 
as  a  master-mind  in  pharmaceutical  and  industrial  chemistry — our 
own,  our  honored,  and  our  loved  Samuel  Philip  Sadtler. 
Quizzing  was  early  instituted  at  the  College  and  was  conducted 
first  by  the  professors  themselves,  and  in  the  last  7o's,  by  quiz- 
masters approved  by  the  Committee  on  Instruction.  In  1880,  quizzes 
were  authorized  by  the  Alumni  Association,  and  this  constitutes  the 
cornerstone  of  the  present  system  of  quizzing  reviews.  Later  (1886) 
these  were  combined  with  the  College  reviews  and  made  compul- 
sory (1895),  the  College  assuming  full  charge. 
In  1821,  the  conditions  of  the  practice  of  pharmacy  were  primi- 
tive. As  Edward  Parrish  (American  Journal  of  Pharmacy,  1871, 
481)  stated,  iri  1871,  in  an  introductory  lecture  to  the  fiftieth  course 
of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy : 
"Fifty  years  ago  when  the  College  was  established,  almost  every 
considerable  drug  store  had  something  like  a  laboratory  attached, 
where  some  of  the  few  chemicals  then  in  use  and  all  the  galenical 
preparations  were  made,  and  where  nearly  all  the  crude  drugs  were 
assorted,  garbled  and  packed.  The  apprentices  then  enjoyed  a  whole- 
some development  of  muscle  through  wielding  the  ponderous  pestle, 
handling  the  sieves  and  working  the  screw-press.  He  learned  how 
to  make  pills  by  the  wholesale,  to  prepare  great  jars  of  extracts  and 
cerates,  to  bottle  castor  oil,  Turlington's  Balsam  and  opodeldoc  by 
the  gross,  and  what  he  lacked  in  the  number  and  variety  of  articles 
he  dealt  in,  was  made  up  by  a  greater  extent  of  his  operations  and 
the  completeness  with  which,  in  a  single  establishment,  all  the  then- 
known  processes  were  practiced.  Very  many  physicians  then  dis- 
pensed their  own  prescriptions,  drawing  the  supplies  from  the  drug- 
gists, but  gradually  the  separate  prescription  counter  was  added  to 
the  drug  stores,  and  the  dispensing  stores,  as  we  now  call  them,  be- 
came numerous,  and  the  wholesale  druggists  gradually  ceased  to  sup- 
ply the  public  directly." 
Our  Quaker  forbears  realized  that  pharmacy  was  both  an  art 
and  a  science,  and  to  be  a  master  of  the  craft  the  pharmaceutical 
student  must  have  practical  instruction  as  well  as  theoretical,  and 
from  the  first  they  required  that  the  candidate  for  graduation  from 
the  College  shall  have  a  "practical  experience  of  at  least  four  years 
