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THE ALUMNI JOURNAL. 



It will be remembered that at the meet- 

 ing in Chicago a committee was ap- 

 pointed to consider the resolution offered 

 by C. S. N. Hallberg. This committee 

 consisted of S. A. D. Sheppard, Wm. 

 Simon and C. M. Ford. Their report is 

 as follows : 



At the meeting of the Section on Phar- 

 maceutical Education and L^egislation in 

 Chicago last year, the undersigned were 

 appointed a Committee to consider and 

 report on the following resolution: 



''Resolved, That the following conditions 

 shall determine what constitutes recognized 

 Colleges of Pharmacy, that is, the requirements 

 for graduation are: (i) Age, 21 years; (2) 

 Experience in pharmacy four years, including 

 time at college ; (3) Two courses of at least 

 six months each, extending over more than one 

 year." See 1893 Proceedings, page 277. 



As sooa as the Committee began to consider 

 carefully the character and full scope of this 

 resolution, they realized that action upon it 

 might be very far reaching in its effects, upon 

 both the American Pharmaceutical Association 

 and the Pharmaceutical Schools of the country. 



They therefore requested that they might 

 have a year in which to consider the matter 

 before making their report. And now that 

 they are about to present that report, they 

 confess to a feeling of deeper anxiety concern- 

 ing the matter than they did a year ago, and 

 they urge the Association to be very careful in 

 its actions on the subject. 



While many of us have very strong convic- 

 tions in regard to the matters referred to in 

 this resolution, we must for the moment allow 

 these convictions to remain unexpressed, and 

 strive to answer the following, which is the 

 only real question now before us : What 

 position should the American Pharmaceutical 

 Association take in regard to Prof. Hallberg's 

 resolution ? 



The connection between the Association and 

 the schools and colleges is one entirely of 

 courtesy, and in no case one of judicial 

 authority. Nevertheless, the connection is a 

 very strong one, and the Association on the one 

 side or the schools on the other, can very 

 materially help or retard the good work that 

 all are doing in the cause of pharmaceutical 

 education. Now, what action can the Associa- 

 tion take on this subject that will give the most 

 help to pharmaceutical education, as repre- 



sented in this country to-day ? It would seem 

 to be for the best that the Association should 

 be a common meeting giound for all ; that 

 there should be at all times on this common meet 

 ing ground such full and friendly discussion of 

 methods as shall stimulate, benefit and teach, 

 without producing friction or bitterness of 

 feeling. 



It is very plain that the Association has no 

 judicial rights to exercise. While most of the 

 active workers in the schools are members of 

 the Association, they are members simply in 

 their personal capacities, and not by virtue of 

 their connection with their schools. Nor 

 can it be said that the Association is an 

 Association of schools. .It is simply a body 

 made up of individual members. Therefore, 

 it would seem that the American Pharma- 

 ceutical Association has no right to set itself 

 up as a judge of what should be considered a 

 regular, or recognized, or reputable, or good or 

 bad college of pharmacy. Should the colleges 

 and schools of this country, acting in concert, 

 present tte question to the Association for 

 answer, then we might, very properly, take a 

 decided position in regard to it. But for us 

 voluntarily to pass a resolution of such a strong 

 and positive character, censuring the course 

 pursued by pharmaceutical schools standing 

 high in the work of pharmacy, would, in the 

 judgment of your Committee, be very doubtful 

 policy. 



The Committee, however, believe that the 

 position of the Association is such that resolu- 

 tions of a suggestive or advisory character, if 

 passed by a two-thirds or three-fourths vote, 

 may be of great help to the various schools, 

 because such resolutions would probably ex- 

 press the prevailing opinions of the majority of 

 the best men engaged in our line of work in 

 this country, and the American Pharmaceutical 

 Association is practically the only medium 

 through which such information can be ob- 

 tained. 



Your Committee, therefore, recommend that 

 the resolution offered by Prof. Hallberg be not 

 adopted. 



They also recommend that the Association 

 adopt one of the following resolutions, pro- 

 vided that three-fourths of all the votes cast 

 shall be in the affirmative: 



FIRST RESOLUTION. 



Resolved, That it is the sense of the American 

 Pharmaceutical Association that the cause of 

 pharmaceutical education would be advanced, 

 should all pharmaceutical schools that confer 



