C. U. C. p. ALUMNI JOURNAL 



227 



Be it resolved, that every person apply- 

 ing for registration as a pharmacist under 

 this Act on and after July ist, 1918, must 

 present a certificate of graduation from an 

 approved School of Pharmacy, giving noL 

 less than a two-year course before gradua- 

 tion, and be it further 



Resolved, that a School of Pharmacy, in 

 order to be approved by this "Board," must 

 have in the judgment of the "Board" proper 

 facilities and equipment for instruction in 

 laboratory and classroom in the above-men- 

 tioned branches and must require that the 

 students shall have at least one year 

 of High School instruction or its equiva- 

 lent before entering upon the course in 

 Pharmacy. 



"What's the matter with Jersey?" 

 Nothing', except that she and the mem- 

 bers of the Board of Pharmacy and the 

 members of The N. J. P. A., who now 

 see in sight the successful end of the 

 long fight for higher standards, are to be 



congratulated. 



J. II. 



Increased Requirements. 



Apropos of the foregoing it might 

 not be out of place to say to the future 

 pharmacists and "pharmasisters" that 

 the New York State Board of Pharmacy 

 has ruled that after January, 1917, a 

 candidate for license must receive at 

 least 75 per cent, in each subject. 



At the Colleges, the passing mark is 



usually 60 per cent. Many coitld do 



better, but they do not try. When these 



youth fuls appear before the Board they 



will then realize — too late, of course — 



that they have made a serious mistake. 



We would not be at all surprised if the 



passing mark in college examinations 



will in the near fuuire be similaily 



raised, thus making greater efforts still 



more necessary. 



J. H. 



College Orchestra. 



In another article in this issue, men- 

 tion is made of the performance, at the 

 LI'niversity Smoker, of the C. U. C. P. 

 Orchestra. 



To the uninitiated the above will re- 

 ceive nothing but passing notice, but to 

 those acquainted with college afifairs and 

 conditions it represents a wonderful step 

 to that ever elusive goal — College Spirit. 

 To hear the students singing the Colum- 

 bia songs was enough to stir every one 

 present. Even the janitor of the build- 

 ing joined in. It reminded the older 

 men present of the good times they had 

 at the "Student Nights" — an institution 

 apparently forgotten — when every one 

 present, led by the orchestra, would join 

 in the singing of the college songs. 



Organizing an orchestra at the College 

 of Pharmacy is not as easy as might be 

 imagined. Senior and Junior students 

 attend on alternate days, so if rehearsals 

 are held on Senior days the Junior stu- 

 dents must ask their employers for time 

 off or else do as some of them do: ask 

 that their dinner hour be so arranged 

 that it will be at the same time as the re- 

 hearsal and then go without their dinner. 



If the rehearsals are held on Junior 

 days, as the majority of them are, in 

 addition to the foregoing, it cannot start 

 until 6:00 P. M., as the Accounting 

 Course is given from 5 :oo P. M. to 

 6:00 P. M. 



Rehearsals are held at least twice a 

 week. The music is not studied so much 

 for public appearance and rendition as 

 for the mutual benefit of the members. 



George Schneider, who is assistant in 

 the Department of Analytical Chemistry, 

 is conducting the orchestra. The per- 



