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encouraged by having a special bulletin board in the main corridor 

 devoted to its interests. The Alumni Association might present the 

 college with such a bulletin board, and also get up a sort of roll of 

 honor for its athletes. Then again, a more extensive employment 

 bureau for the students might be established. Any student looking 

 for a position should leave his name, address, statements as to abili- 

 ties and expectations, together with references as to character, etc., 

 at a bureau, which the Alumni Association could readily establish in 

 the college building. A prospective employer could then readily get in 

 touch with the man who would suit him best. Similarly employers 

 could leave their names, addresses and requirements. In this way needy 

 students could be easily, quickly and honorably helped to a means 

 of earning their way through college, and employers would be sure 

 of getting honest, able and willing men as their assistants. And fur- 

 thermore, although the instruction given at the New York College of 

 Pharmacy to-day is probably equalled by that of no other college of 

 pharmacy in the United States, yet it could be slightly improved iii 

 one respect, and that is, by the introduction of more pictures and 

 charts to illustrate the various lectures. The pictures and diagrams 

 at present shewn to illustrate the lectures on botany and physiology 

 are (or at least were to me) a great aid towards the clearer under- 

 standing and grasping of these subjects. I would suggest having 

 the lectures on chemistry, for instance, illustrated by charts showing 

 the derivation of the various compounds from methane and from 

 benzole, charts giving characteristic equations, etc., similar to the 

 ones Dr. Isacovics used in his lectures on synthetic perfumes. These 

 would tend to keep the essential and fundamental points ever fresh 

 in the minds of the students, even though the professor were speaking 

 on a different subject at the time. And since the Board of Trustees 

 is so generously appropriating money for the purchasing of apparatus 

 to be shown at the physics lectures, I think the Alumni Association 

 might present pictures and charts for a clearer elucidation of the 

 lectures in some of the other subjects, especially chemistry. 



In addition to the material aid, the Alumni Association can render 

 moral aid to the college. That is, by constant agitation in conjunction 

 with the other pharmaceutical associations in this State, it can gradu- 

 ally have the requirements for entrance to the college raised to full 

 high school graduation. Since the schools of engineering and medicine 

 at Columbia have or are about to lengthen their course, the school 

 of pharmacy must necessarily follow' suit, if its graduates are to 



