01. 1. (B. f . Alumnt Jnurnal 



Published Monthly by the Alumni Association 

 OF THE New York Collec7E of Pharmacy, Columbia University List? 



JEAN NOT HOSTMANN, EDITOR »OTahr:- 



CONTRIBUTING EDITORS eAtfjJHr- 



M. M. RUSBY €3. C D I E X IVI A IM M. V. A R IM Y 



Address all communications to the C. U. C. P. Alumni Journal, 115-119 West 68th Street, New York. 



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Vol. XXIII. 



MARCH 1916. 



Number 3 



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" WHY" THE JOURNA L? 



** What good is the Journal?" 

 This question is often asked and usually 

 answered. Still the doubter appears in 

 our midst and will not down. We feel 

 that we can safely say without fear of 

 contradiction that any publication in 

 which the members of our Association 

 are personally interested must aid in 

 keeping up that spirit which is so neces- 

 sary to prevent the graduates of any 

 institution from drifting entirely apart. 

 As a rule when the value of an active 

 alumni organization is discussed, the aid 

 it can render to its Alma Mater is the 

 paramount issue. This is as it should 

 be. However, we feel that ofttimes an- 

 other very important feature is lost 

 sight of. li the several thousand gradu- 

 ates of our College, scattered as they 

 are throughout the country, were all 

 firmly united in an active association, 

 they could accomplish much now de- 



sired, that wo^tld not only aid their 

 Alumni Association and their College, 

 but each and every individual as well. 



T. H. 



C OLLEGE IMPROVEMENT S. 



The announcements of improvements 

 and changes in equipment and curriculum 

 as described by Dean Rusby on page 57 

 should prove of more than passing in- 

 terest. 



Probably the most important and far 

 reaching change is the one increasing 

 the entrance requirements beginning 

 with 1918 term from "15" to "30 

 Regents' counts." Applying as it does 

 to all the pharmacy schools in the State, 

 it will serve to keep the latter in the 

 vanguard of those who are ever strivinof 

 to place pharmacy upon a higher and 

 more honorable plane. 



J. H. 



