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it  a  fresh  and  continuous  impulse  along  the  lines  which  he  strove  to 
uphold. 
It  is  difficult  to  present  an  ideal  in  a  way  which  will  command  at- 
tention. We  do  not  have  time  to  indulge  much  in  sentiments  in 
these  days,  and  it  is  only  the  most  vigorous  and  compelling  en- 
deavors that  succeed  in  stirring  up  a  true  sentiment. 
We  are  intensely  utilitarian.  The  David  Harum  style  of  senti- 
ment is  the  popular  style  to-day.  An  apple  maybe  rotten  through- 
out, but  so  it  be  gilded  it  is  sought  after.  And  so  even  the  sound 
apple  must  be  "gilded,  or  it  is  disregarded.  It's  the  gilding  that 
counts  and  is  wanted.  It  will  not  do  to  forget  that.  But  how  to 
honor  the  ideal  and  still  be  utilitarian  is  the  problem.  It  is  not  a 
worthy  memorial  to  gild  an  unworthy  remembrance. 
Sometimes  it  is  wise  to  carry  a  thought  or  a  tendency  to  an  ex- 
treme in  order  to  defeat  it.  There  is  sure  to  be  a  reaction.  If  we 
can  put  a  utilitarian  gilding  on  everything,  the  thoughtful  ones  will 
turn  their  attention  to  what  is  underneath,  after  a  time.  And  so  a 
memorial  which  best  accedes  to  the  demand  lor  the  serviceable  now 
may  in  the  end  prove  the  best  stimulus  toward  a  worthy  and  hon- 
orable ideal. 
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One  of  the  greatest  needs  in  pharmacy  to-day  is  an  established 
and  authoritative  research  laboratory.  I  do  not  mean  one  which 
will  delve  in  chemical  relationships,  reactions  and  syntheses.  That 
is  foundation  work,  all-important  and  creditable,  but  it  is  being  done 
by  the  university  investigators,  and  we  can  afford  to  leave  it  to 
them.  But  not  all  men  are  able  to  build  soundly  on  a  sound  foun- 
dation. Not  all  can  see  the  relationships  of  the  seemingly  abstract 
to  the  practical.  There  is  room  for  a  large  work  in  the  purely 
pharmaceutical  applications  of  chemical  facts.  The  pharmacists 
who  most  strongly  feel  the  need  of  a  sounder  superstructure  are 
not  in  a  position  to  know  and  keep  up  with  the  increase  in  funda- 
mental facts.  The  few  who  are  enabled  to  keep  in  touch  with  the 
more  scientific  progress  lack  a  stimulus  and  oftentimes  an  opportu- 
nity to  connect  them  with  the  common  needs  of  to-day.  There  is 
a  field  for  the  bridging  of  the  need  and  the  foundation'  fact.  A 
laboratory  in  which  the  everyday  problems  of  pharmacy  would  be 
worked  out  by  competent  minds  and  hands  additional  to  what  the 
