130 THE ALUMNI JOURNAL 



REPORT OF THE DKAN* 



FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, ICjI2 



To the President of Columbia University, 



Sir : 



I have the honor to submit below my report for the academic 

 year 1911-12. 



The important developments of the year, outside of the regular 

 work of the College, have been in the direction of standardizing 

 and legalizing our University Courses and degrees. 

 Standardization In my recent annual reports, I have recorded the 

 steady progress that has been made in securing the 

 cooperation of the other pharmacy schools of the countrv in estab- 

 lishing minimum standards for what may be called the rudimentary 

 course in pharmacy, designed to fit students for meeting pharmacy 

 board examinations. In spite of continued opposition, open or secret, 

 by various unfit schools, sentiment favorable to such standards has 

 continued to strengthen and extend throughout the year, and it may 

 now be safely regarded as merely a question of time when these 

 standards, or higher ones, shall completely control American phar- 

 maceutical education. 



In the meantime, attention has centered upon the existing diversity 

 in those courses and degrees which lay claim to a higher rank in 

 the educational scale. A number of schools have offered advanced 

 courses of instruction, leading to supposedly higher degrees 

 than that of Graduate in Pharmacy, which is appropriate for the 

 rudimentary course mentioned above. In our own school, which has 

 conferred the higher degrees of Pharmaceutical Chemist and Dpctor 

 of Pharmacy, it has been held that such courses should be based upon 

 the college entrance qualification,, as well as that they should cover 

 advanced instruction. That this view has by many not been shared 

 is apparent from the following facts. Such courses have been offered 

 and both the above named degrees conferred by other schools on the 

 basis of a preparation of but one secondary school year, and even 

 this requirement has been very loosely enforced. The course of in- 

 fraction leading to these degrees has varied from two to four 

 vears and from 1.000 to 3,500 hours, so that in no case have the 

 requirements for the Doctor's degree approximated those in medicine 



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