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C. U. C. P. ALUMNI JOURNAL 



C O-OPERATION OF THE COLLEGE AND THE INDUSTRIE S 



By H. V. Arny. 



In this article Doctor Arny discusses in his usual direct and forceful 

 manner a question which will continually become of greater importance. 

 Pharmaceutic progress demands that the colleges and manufacturing 

 industries unite to supply those particularly trained workers necessary 

 for the future success of both professional and commercial pharmacy. 



During the past winter, the New York 

 section of the American Chemical So- 

 ciety has held an exceedingly interesting 

 series of meetings at which was discussed 

 the burning question of chemical pre- 

 paredness and particularly that phase of 

 the subject concerning the possibility of 

 a closer co-operation between the uni- 

 versities and those industries based upon 

 chemical reactions. Much of value was 

 deduced from this discussion, not the 

 least of which was the appointment of a 

 permanent committee primarily designed 

 to bring into being an actual co-operation 

 of the character desired. 



The object of this paper is not how- 

 ever the presentation of a resume of the 

 discussions just mentioned. What in- 

 terests us far more is the question of 

 co-operation of pharmaceutical manu- 

 facturers and pharmaceutical colleges ; 

 notably our own institution. 



That co-operation of this character is 

 desirable ; that it would be advantageous 

 to both parties is scarcely debatable. In 

 the Chemical Society discussion, there 

 was not one voice raised in dissent to 

 the proposition that both industry and 

 education would be tremendously bene- 

 fited by friendly and virile co-operation. 

 Such a co-operation exists, in fact, in 

 many of our institutions of pharma- 

 ceutical instruction, whose instructors act 

 as consultants in manufacturing con- 



cerns. But the problem is a broader one 

 than the utilization of the theoretical 

 knowledge of the teacher by the manu- 

 facturing plant, satisfactory though this 

 arrangement frequently is to both par- 

 ties to the arrangement. It goes beyond 

 the narrow question as to an individual 

 instructor augmenting his income by be- 

 ing of service to a certain manufacturer. 

 The real problem is, how can our phar- 

 macy colleges co-operate with those 

 manufacturing concerns allied to phar- 

 macy, so that the alliance will be bene- 

 ficial not merely to the colleges and to 

 the industries, but chiefly to those who 

 are preparing themselves for a manu- 

 facturing career. The sole excuse for 

 the existence of any college is that it fits 

 men to follow a certain calling and that 

 in logical sequence provides the public 

 with men armed in that particular line 

 of work. Industry's interest in the col- 

 lege is primarily based upon the fact that 

 in these days of specialization few em- 

 ployees have the opportunity of learning 

 all parts of a particular industry by 

 working in the plant. Here is where the 

 college steps in and tries to train the 

 prospective industrial in the fundamental 

 principles of that particular calling as 

 well as presenting to him a general sur- 

 vey of the practical aspects of manufac- 

 turing processes employed in that indus- 

 try. In short, the technical college is 



