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or other departments. Moreover, various other degrees have been 

 conferred by other schools on the same terms. Thus one school gives 

 a short two year course, two others a short three year course for 

 the Doctor's degree, and in one the third year work is an absolute 

 farce. One gives a three year course, based on one secondary school 

 year, for the degree of Analytical Chemist while another gives the 

 degree of Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Science for a two year course. 

 The degree of Pharmaceutical Chemist is given on most unequal 

 terms in a number of institutions. 



It will thus be seen that while uniformity is being secured in the 

 conditions for the lower degree, in which the Universities are but 

 little interested, those for the higher degrees are quite chaotic. Recog- 

 nition of this fact and concern regarding it are not new. For man} 

 years individual pharmaceutical educators have sporadically appealed 

 for correction of the evil, but there has been no group of schools 

 both willing and able to establish a successful precedent. 



Several years since, our school took up this problem with the 

 intention of solving it, and engaged in preparatory work in thi< 



direction. It was quite essential that whatever was 

 Co-operation done should be done officially by our State Education 



Department. That Department could not well estab- 

 lish any requirements in pharmacy that were not approved by a', 

 least a majority of the four schools of our state, and unanimity among 

 them was most desirable. At the same time, the ideals of Columbia 

 must be respected and, if possible, fully met, and this without in- 

 creasing the heavy burdens already resting upon our college, cu; 

 off as it is from all participation in that outside assistance which i 

 not deemed essential in all educational development. Could all o: 

 these interests, the state, the other schools, the university and the 

 college trustees and faculty, have taken part in the several con- 

 ferences, the work would have been easier, but at no time has sue! 

 a general conference been secured. The results obtained by conference 

 of part of them have been afterward overturned by objections fron 

 another part. At length, however, we succeeded, at a meeting of the 



Pharmacy Council held in Rochester on June 25. 

 Agreements and presided over by Acting Commissioner Downing. 



in reaching an unanimous agreement upon the fol • 

 lowing propositions, subject to the approval of the several schools : 



