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supposed to supply the demand for new be as carefully planned as to the proper 



trained workers in a certain industry, as sequence of subjects as are the other 



the old workers pass away, and industry lectures of the course and each expert 



is now instinctively turning to the col- should deal with that particular subject 



lege for recruits with which to fill vacan- which constitutes his daily work, 

 cies as they occur. Then the individual manufacturing 



The phrase "supposed to supply the concern should invite students of the 



demand" is used advisedly since it is fre- four-year course to visit those parts of 



quently asserted by manufacturers that the works where secrecy of manipula- 



colleges do not properly supply such a tion is not a factor. There are of course 



demand. This is the crux of the situa- in each plant certain phases of manufac- 



tion. Do the colleges supply the de- ture that should be respected as of pri- 



mand? Can the colleges train men ac- vate character, but there is much more 



ceptably for industrial pursuits? that could be shown freely to students 



The answer to this query is an em- with no loss to the manufacturer and 

 phatic "yes" provided the course offered with great gain to those who are about 

 fulfills two requirements: (i) Is its to embark in industrial lines, 

 scope broad enough as to time devoted It may be immediately said that the 

 to it and as to curriculum followed? (2) two ideas suggested above are already in 

 Is it a course designed to fit practical vogue, that lectures on industrial sub- 

 men to practical work? As to the first jects already obtain, that industrial ex- 

 requirements, the four year course lead- cursions are a part of the regular curri- 

 ing to the Bachelor of Science in Phar- culum of many colleges. This is largely 

 macy offered by our college and by true in chemistry courses, but as yet not 

 some of her sister institutions comes up so true as far as pharmaceutical manu- 

 to the suggested norm. As to the prac- facturing lines are concerned. Further- 

 ticability of these courses, that is the more, what is required is a true co- 

 problem underlying the entire subject of operation between such concerns and the. 

 co-operation of the colleges and the in- pharmaceutical colleges in recognition by 

 dustries, for if the course is to meet with the industries that the work of the col- 

 the approval of the industries, it be- leges is primarily a service for the indus- 

 hooves the industries to co-operate in try in providing future employees and 

 making the course just what they would in this spirit, the industries should not 

 have it. merely permit such co-operation as is 



The industries and the technical men suggested above, but should enthusiastic- 

 connected therewith can help the col- ally assist the colleges in training these 

 leges immensely in making the four-year young people for industry's future use. 

 course a practical one. In the first place Assuming all this is done, will the 

 there should be in such a course aside product of the four-year course be so 

 from the fundamental lectures by regu- trained that it will be of real service to 

 lar members of the faculty, a series of industry? The instant answer is, that 

 lectures on strictly technical subjects the product will be as well prepared to 

 given by men who are actively connected meet the acid test of industrial activity 

 with the industries. This series should as the graduate of a four-year medical 



