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course, or less frequently, a three year course, successfully completed the require- 

 ments of such course and have passed a successful examination, they are awarded 

 a diploma, as evidence of this. They are then required to gain whatever addi- 

 tional experience is needed, and after this may be admitted to the licensing exam- 

 ination for pharmacist. In most states, the period of experience required extends 

 over four years, college time being counted as store experience. 



In the meantime, the services of such graduates, at least until very recently, 

 were not especially sought, they were given no especial rights and privileges, nor 

 Vt^ere they particularly favored in the matter of obtaining remuneration for their 

 work. They were practically on a par with an unlicensed person, without di- 

 ploma. This was necessarily the case, they not being in position to obtain a 

 license to practice pharmacy, and the law not authorizing their employment, ex- 

 cept in what is known as a junior capacity. It was for the purpose of obviating 

 this situation or condition, and to make available a goodly number of young women 

 and men, graduates of the schools in our State, as well as those in other states, 

 for service of a higher grade and character, than our law heretofore permitted, 

 in our pharmacies and drug stores, that the members of our State Board of 

 Pharmacy suggested the creation of a new grade of license, to be known as Junior 

 Pharmacist. In order to make this suggestion operative, new legislation was 

 required, and such was obtained, through medium of our State Pharmaceutical 

 Association, and its Legislative Committee. The necessary amendment to our 

 Public Health Laws was passed by our State Legislature, and the measure was 

 signed by Governor Whitman, and is now a part of the laws of New York State, 

 This new law in brief provides for the following : 



Junior Pharmacist: — They (the Board of Pharmacy) shall admit to 



the examination for junior pharmacist any candidate that pays a fee of ten 



dollars and 



1. Is more than 19 years of age. 



2. Is of good moral character. 



3. Has had prior to January first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, fifteen 

 academic counts, or the equivalent, before beginning the first year of 

 study in the school, and after that date had thirty academic counts, or 

 the equivalent, before beginning such study. 



4. Has studied pharmacology as outlined in the syllabus not less than two 

 years in a school. 



5. Plas received the diploma of graduate of pharmacy from a school. 



6. Has had two years' experience in a registered pharmacy or drug store 

 under the personal supervision of a pharmacist or druggist, all of 

 which experience must have been in a pharmacy or drug store in New 

 York State. 



The questions for examination for licensed pharmacist and junior li- 

 censed pharmacist shall be identical. An applicant for examination for 

 junior pharmacist shall be eligible to take the examination in theoretical 

 subjects only. Such applicant may, subject to the rules of the Board, upon 

 completing four years' actual experience in a pharmacy or drug store, pro- 



