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vided such applicant is over twenty-one years of age, be admitted to the ex- 

 amination in practical pharmacy, and if successful, the board shall grant such 

 applicant a pharmacist's license. 



A junior pharmacist may, subject to the rules of the board, have tem- 

 porary charge of a pharmacy or drug store, but during such temporary 

 charge shall not compound or dispense physicians' prescriptions. 



This act shall take effect immediately. 

 It will be noted that all persons, who have successfully met all of the require- 

 ments of this act, may, subject to the rules of the Board, have temporary charge 

 of a pharmacy or drug store, but shall not have the privilege of compounding or 

 dispensing physicians' prescriptions. Such person may, however, sell many arti- 

 cles, during the absence of the licensee, not permitted to be sold by what is known 

 a? a junior clerk. 



As yet, no examination for the grade of junior licensed pharmacist has been 

 conducted. It is expected, however, that such examination will be held during 

 the month of June and I am informed that many graduates, who cannot meet the 

 full requirements, at this time, have applied for admission to this examination. 

 I would also call attention to the fact that no attempt has been made, or was con- 

 templated to be made, to abrogate, in any way, the four years' practical exper- 

 ience requirement, embodied in most pharmacy laws, however desirable such 

 action may have seemed to some. Whether or not this four year experience re- 

 quirement is a wise or even expedient provision at this time, is to say the least 

 a debatable question, and one which is not being discussed here. That the matter 

 is attracting general attention, however, is very apparent. President Rufus A. 

 Lyman, of the American Conference of Pharmaceutical Faculties, thought the 

 matter of sufficient importance to give it considerable attention in his annual ad- 

 dress to the Faculties, at the Indianapolis meeting. He says as follows : 



The Apprentice System 



"I cannot close without offering a protest against the apprentice system. The 

 tendency in these latter years is to increase the length of apprenticeship. The ex- 

 cuse is to make better men. The way it works is to crush the spirit out of a 

 man who has any spirit, and leave in Pharmacy a lot of corpses. I maintain that 

 a well trained college man going into an ordinary store after graduation is in a 

 position to acquire more information regarding the conduct of a business in six 

 months than the average flunkey who hangs around a store for six years. And 

 yet when it comes to taking the Board examination he and the flunkey are brought 

 to the same time requirement. If a well trained college man cannot learn to 

 operate a certain store in four years, he can't in five. Can we not wake up like 

 other professions and devise some common sense scheme that will not act as a 

 crushing mill to both individual and to professional pharmacy?" I recommend 

 that our committee on relations of Colleges of Pharmacy with Boards be instructed 

 to express the view above as the sentiment of the Conference, and that this com- 

 mittee in conjunction with the proper committee of the Boards be requested to 

 devise a plan which can be developed that will render justice to all, and that 

 progress in the matter be reported as early as possible." 



