72 LIFE AND WORK OF DR. A. A. MURPHREE
 '"The School of Pharmacy this first year is a promise of
what it is to be in the future. You are to have in your own
state, of your founding, a college of pharmacy that is unex-
celled in the South. Doctor Leigh doubtless gave you the more
important statistics regarding the school, having forty-three
students, which is the largest class of any state at the present
time. About the character of the men-I suppose these gentle-
men who have been addressing you from our pharmaceutical
faculty have been able to speak well for themselves, but I
want to tell you that the calibre of the men engaged take sec-
ond rank to none in any other college of the University of
Florida. One great thing concerned the Board of Control and
the management of the University at the outset, as it doubtless
concerned Dr. Jones and others on that Board, and that was to
secure a department that would rank with other colleges of the
University, and you succeeded admirably. The department
has excelled our most sanguine expectations this first year. It
is now our desire to develop that institution into a college of
high rank.
 "We first adopted the modest title of school with the head
of the department having the modest title of director. Our
desire and our need is next a building to house this School of
Pharmacy. When we get our building and equipment we will
then have a college of pharmacy with the present director as
dean of the college.
 "We want to develop this into a college, and we want it to
be a standard, as I say. A boy can go from the college of
arts into the next highest class in Princeton University, and we
want this college to be of the same general calibre and char-
acter, to give the same broad training, and we are approach-
ing that end.
 "The College of Pharmacy has already been invited to
 make application for membership in the National Association
 of Faculties of Pharmacy. I want to thank those who have
 been so very generous in awarding medals to encourage the
 students of pharmacy in the school, and of course, I must take
 advantage of the opportunity to thank you for the splendid
 scholarship of one thousand dollars to carry a man through