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the degree of graduate in pharmacy adopt the 

 following suggestions: 



(i) That the standard for admission to the 

 school shall be not less than that required for 

 admission to the public high schools of the 

 country. 



(2) That each student shall attend not less 

 than two (2) courses of lectures, each course 

 extenrling over a period of not less than twen- 

 ty two (22) weeks, the student to be in attend- 

 ance upon not less than six (6) lectures in each 

 week, and not less than one hundred and fifty 

 (150) lectures in each session. That these 

 lectures embrace those upon Pharmacy, Chem- 

 istry, and Materia Medica, but do not include 

 lectures upon Microscopy, Botany, Latin, and 

 other useful branches. That not less than one 

 hundred and fifty (150) hours of practical work, 

 and more if practicable, should be required of 

 each student, to be apportioned throughout the 

 various courses, as may seem best. 



(3) That every student, in order to graduate, 

 should be familiar with all the teachings of the 

 Pharmacopoeia and fully capable of performing 

 all operations mentioned in it. 



(4) That the course of study shall not be 

 forced, but shall be such as to allow for the 

 proper digestion and assimilation of the in- 

 struction given in the school. 



(5) That, as far as practicable, students shall 

 give their whole time to college work during 

 the sessions of the school, and not divide their 

 time between work in a store and work at col- 

 lege. That no student shall be retained at a 

 school whose outside duties will not permit him 

 to do full justice to his studies or to the labora- 

 tory work assigned him. 



(6) That the degree shall not be conferred 

 upon any person who is less than twenty (20) 

 years of age at the time of completing his final 

 course at school. 



(7) That the degree shall not be conferred 

 upon any person who has had less than three (3) 

 years' practical experience in a good drug store, 

 where physicians' prescriptions are compound- 

 ed, exclusive of the time spent at college. 



SECOND RESOLUTION. 



Resolved, That a Committee be appointed, 

 consisting of one representative from each of 

 the colleges and schools of pharmacy of this 

 country, with three members of the Association, 

 neither of whom are teachers in any pharma- 

 ceutical college or school. The duty of said 

 Committee shall be to take into careful consid- 

 eration the condition of pharmaceutical educa- 

 tion in this country, make recommendations 



relative thereto, and report to the Association 

 at its next annual meeting. 



After considerable discussion the second 

 resolution was adopted on amending it 

 to read. "That a committee to be ap- 

 pointed consisting of one representative 

 from each of the colleges and schools of 

 pharmacy of this country having member- 

 ship in this Association''' etc. 



The paper on the query "Should 

 Pharmaceutical School Students divide 

 their time between the School and the 

 shop?" by Oscar Oldberg, elicited as it 

 was calculated a most animated discus- 

 sion. The paper is printed in full in 

 another portion of this journal. Not only 

 the paper but the discussions which will be 

 printed in the Proceedings of the American 

 Pharmaceutical Association are worthy 

 of very careful reading, not only because 

 of the discussions on this subject during 

 the past year, but it seems to strike a key 

 that makes even the adamantine structures 

 of pharmaceutical schools tremble a little 

 at this time. Of the fourteen men who 

 discussed the paper but four consid- 

 ered the matter favorably or worthy 

 of the consideration that Professor Oldberg 

 had put upon the subject. Another 

 matter of considerable interest in this 

 section as indicating "the signs of the 

 times" is the sense of our National 

 Organization as expressed in the motion 

 of H. R. Slack, that "graduates in phar- 

 mac}^ be compelled to pass the examina- 

 tions of boards of pharmacy before being 

 registered." This seems to bring the 

 matter of education to this point, viz.: 

 (t). Colleges must be so provided as to 

 give the required amount of theoretical 

 and practical instruction, and (2). The 

 Boards of Pharmacy are to consider the 

 matter of "shop training," experience 

 and qualification to practice pharmacy. In 

 another portion of The Alumni Journai, 

 we publish the papers of H. R. Slack and 

 L. E- Sayre which are of interest in this 

 connection. 



