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relied upon for a quick report on a blood 

 count or a smear examination, while he 

 is waiting- at the bedside of the patient. 

 Through this work the pharmacist and 

 the physician will be in constant com- 

 munication with each other. The phy- 

 sician will cease to look condescendingly 

 upon the pharmacist as a plain dealer in 

 drugs with some quasi-professional pre- 

 tentions, but will consider him a man of 

 equal professional standing, whom he 

 can consult on matters pertaining to 

 medicine ; particularly on clinical diag- 

 nosis. 



What a Student Thinks of the 

 C, U. C. P. Alumni Journal. 



New York, September 6, 1916. 



To THE Editor of the C. U. C. P. Alumni 



Journal : 



You will pardon me for this long letter, for I 

 have to express my appreciation of your splendid 

 work in building up the good name and signifi- 

 cance of the "Alumni Journal." 



If you remember, at the time I subscribed for 

 it, I did so, because the first issue in your 

 editorship won my liking. You promised some 

 new improvements then, which were to come 

 in the following months. 



Since that time nine months passed, you ful- 

 filled your promises and I read every new issue 

 of the Journal with gi-owing interest. 



I love this paper and it always struck me 

 strange when I found that some of my fellow 

 students did not show the same interest in sub- 

 scribing for or reading the same. 



As a true friend of the Journal, I investigated 

 for the reasons and found that in the majority 

 of cases they really did not know what the 

 "Alumni Journal" means to the student, to the 

 alumni and to the institution as a social organi- 

 zation ; they didn't know what it means to be 

 scientifically and literary, an adherent part of 

 their Alma Mater; they didn't know in most of 

 the cases what valuable information they missed 

 by not reading the Journal (about the A. Ph. A. 

 organization, Hager; Dr. Ballard's most inter- 

 esting article, Mr. Hynson's talk about com- 

 mercial Phcy., etc.). In one word, they didn't 

 know how valuable is the Journal in itself, and 

 they didn't know all these, because they were 

 not told in words about these. The Journal was 

 not advertised, well among the students. 



This is a very true statement. 

 And this must be remedied. 



For the Journal has such a purpose, which 

 needs publicity. And it needs it iu such a large 

 measure that anybody, who takes interest in its 

 progress, must see. 



In Europe an Alumni Journal is the forvmi ; 

 it is the connective between the profession, the 

 college and the evercoming fresh element ; it is a 

 social training for those who need it ; it is a 

 general information bureau ; it is an emtiloy- 

 ment office ; it is the tribunal in every case. 



I admit that it cannot serve in general as 

 many purposes here for the simple matter that 

 the profession is not entire yet on the main 

 Questions of education and pharmaceutical leg- 

 islation. Nevertheless it can serve all these 

 purposes toward its members or its readers. 

 And I cannot find words to express all I hope 

 from a strong Alumni Association brought to- 

 gether and held in one bunch by a proper 

 Journal which cares for the ethics in pharmacy 

 as well as for commercial development. 



For instance, the main problem of the pro- 

 fession is the standardization of education and 

 with it in connection the elimination of unedu- 

 cated helps in standardized pharmacies. This 

 goal can only be reached by a strong profes- 

 sional body composed of graduates in pharmacy, 

 united for the purpose of improving the ethics 

 and restoring the old glory of pharmacy, when 

 it was spoken of yet as custodian of health and 

 sciences. To do this they must show a marked 

 supremacy in knowledge and business abilities 

 above those who did not have a college train- 

 ing. This is the purpose where the alumni 

 association comes handy to those who have 

 hardships in going on a straight line, who need 

 encouragement, who need a true adviser and an 

 able friend. A strong alumni association is 

 not only the backbone of this helpless body of 

 starting drug clerks, but it is the outside fame 

 of the college, it is the rainbow, the colors of 

 which represent the composition and value of 

 the education given in that college. 



In building up a strong alumni association, 

 the Journal is the most potent factor, but only 

 then, when its seeds of good advisers fall into 

 the fertile soil in the heart of the first year 

 student. If the start is right, the end is always 

 promising. 



I see the good intention and extreme effort 

 of the Journal in this regard. I appreciate its 

 work and it is not immodesty but true friend- 

 ship when I give a few suggestions as to how 

 to enlarge the number of subscribers among the 

 students, especially among the first year stu- 

 dents. 



First, by repeated advertising through the 

 faculty and able members of the other classes 

 a considerably larger number of subscribers 

 may be secured. 



Second, if in every issue one or more articles 

 are inserted from the teachers in the different 



