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not employed in the store for the service students fully. In other words these 



he can render in exchange for the wages schools of pharmacy are conducted in the 



he receives, but that his employer, in- same manner as are other technical and 



stead, consents to take him into the store professional schools of the same grade, 



with the express stipulation that the Students who are employed in stores 



young man shall be given just such cannot, in these schools, keep up with 



work as he requires for purposes of in- their classmates, and they should not at- 



struction. This is impracticable. tempt to attend such schools unless thej^ 



The shop training and practice which divide the courses of study. In other 



an apprentice or clerk gets when he is words, any student who wishes to attend 



regularly employed on full time in a good a school of pharmacy in which the un- 



pharmacy, are not only valuable but ab- divided studies are so arranged as to oc- 



solutely necessary to his complete de- cupy fifty hours weekly, and who at the 



velopment into an accomplished pharma- same time wants to devote a part of his 



cist. But such irregular, interrupted time to wage-earning, can do so only by 



employment as college students can get taking about one-half of the regular 



has no educational value whatever. Be- work in each semester, thus devoting 



sides, we are informed by the annual an- two years to the school work which other 



nouncements of the colleges of phamacy students finish in one year, 



that only "a limited number" of students In colleges of pharmacy giving courses 



can be provided with (partial) employ- of study adjusted to the plan of allowing 



ment in the drug stores during the col- the students sufiicient spare time from 



lege sessions. A system which benefits their school work to enable them to earn 



only "a limited number" of the students their expenses, the average amount of 



is surely [not to be commended. obligatory school school attendance is 



But the language used in the annual less than thirteen hours weekly. Students 



announcement of colleges of pharmacy who desire to devote their whole time to 



which offer to aid their students in their their studies, can, of course, attend these 



efforts to obtain employment during their colleges ; but, if they have good natural 



college attendance, indicates plainly, in ability, they will be able to accomplish 



every instance, that the object in far more than the prescribed curriculum, 



view is not instruction but wages, and and in order to occupy their time they 



in no instance do I find a college an- will be obliged to take up enough of 



nouncement recommending that the the optional or extra work usually 



students secure emploj^ment for the pur- offered. 



pose of rendering their college courses The most important difference between 



more effective. the curriculum which is practicable when 



Several of the American schools of the student devotes his whole time, and 



pharmacy are conducted on the principle the curriculum possible when he devotes 



that the students will devote their time only one-half of his time, is mainly in the 



and attention exclusively to their school laboratory courses. Schools of pharmacy 



work and will not ho. employed in stores occupyingthe whole time of their students 



during the school sessions. These schools devote on an average more than twenty 



provide over thirty hours' instruction hours weekly to laboratory practice, 



weekly, and expect the student to devote while in the other colleges the average 



at least twenty hours more to text-book amount of laboratory work is less than 



study, thus occupying the whole time of .six hours weekly. 



