PUBLISHED BY THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 

 OF THE COLLEGE OF PHARMACY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. 



Vol. f. 



New York, September, 1894. 



No. 5- 



A PLEA FOR PHARMACEUTICAL FELLOWSHIPS. 



BY PROF, DR. EDWARD KREMERS. 



standard of pharmaceutical education ; 

 also that it is the duty not only of the 

 druggists to educate themselves, but that 

 in the interest of self-defense it is the duty 

 of the State to demand higher education 



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]~\URING the past year several phar- 

 *^ maceutical journals have called 



attention to the desirability^ of endowed 

 colleges of pharmacy that should be in- 

 dependent of the tuition fee paid by stu- 



dents. It was stated that such schools 

 would be placed in a position to materi- 

 ally raise the status of pharmaceutical 

 education. It is noteworthy that such 

 endowed colleges were not spoken of as 

 isolated professional schools, but as part 

 of larger and broader educational institu- 

 tions. In fact, the success of a school of 

 pharmacy which is an integral part of 



of its professional men, and to offer such 

 education at its centres of learning, its 

 State universities. 



II such editorials accomplish this end 

 they will have achieved much. It is 

 doubtful, however, whether they will 

 secure endowments for chairs in phar- 

 macy of which mention was made. It is 

 furthermore very doubtful, whether a 



one of our largest State universities was multiplication of schools or colleges of 



mentioned as having been demonstrated 

 beyond all question. Such utterances 

 are certainly remarkable signs of the 

 times. Furthermore, the following sen- 

 tence : "This elevation has merely kept 

 pace with public sentiment among phar- 

 macists. // has followed rather than led 

 the sentiment^ certainly is very quicken- 

 ing after the sickening effusions of self- 

 laudation with which we were flooded 

 only a short time ago." 

 1**^ Editorials of such character may do 

 much to bring about a more general 



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pharmacy in this country is desirable. 

 On the conti ary, such a duplication of in- 

 struction within a State or even a city is 

 by many considered as being decidedly 

 detrimental to advancement in the proper 

 direction. If a new school offers a better 

 course than the already existing one is 

 willing to aspire to, great advantages 

 may be gained, but even then they are 

 accompanied with a loss or a scattering of 

 energy and apparatus which is greatly to 

 be deplored. 



A common and apparently practical 



recognition of insufficiency of our present plan to secure an endowment is to per- 



(') Amer. Druggist and Phavm. Record, 1893. p. 2S7. SUadc SOmC perSOU Or a SOCicty of pCrSOUS 



