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course is to grapple with the problems boratory, it usually turns to some college 

 of the healing art. If this answer meets instructor for aid. Again, the modern 

 with the comment that young M. D. is so teacher is keenly desirous of domg re- 

 green that actual experience in hospital search work but is hampered by two facts 

 work is now deemed almost essential be- (a) the scramble for a living takes most 

 fore the young doctor goes into general of the time of a man of family; (b) the 

 practice, the writer will be more than interruptions that come in the daily rou- 

 satisfied, since such a rejoinder brings tine of a successful teacher is scarcely 

 squarely before us that phase of co- conducive to the patient, painstaking, 

 operation between the industries and the steady application so essential to the suc- 

 colleges which is still in the experimental cess of an investigation. Examples could 

 but which if properly handled wall prove be cited of teachers, who, desirous of 

 of as great value to the public and to the conducting important investigations, 

 embryo industrial chemist as the now have paid private research workers out 

 well-established custom of hospital in- of their non-too-large income in order 

 terneship is to the embryo physician. that their ideas of routine teaching 

 The phase I have in mind is the sys- might be developed. The two needs of 

 tem of industrial fellowships instituted industry just outlined and the research 

 by the late Robert Kennedy Duncan, de- instinct of the teacher can be blended to 

 veloped to the largest extent so far at the great advantage of the student, by 

 the Mellon Institute of Industrial Re- the ideal co-operation between industry 

 search at Pittsburgh and now gradually and colleges in the shape of industrial 

 becoming a factor in a number of col- fellowships. 



leges. The industrial concern needs a young 



The general subject of industrial fel- man of college training but wants one 



lowships is beyond the limits of this arti- with some manufacturing experience, 



cle, but how the plan can be employed in "We have no time to break in green 



pharmacy colleges to bring about a real graduates," the works' manager tells the 



co-operation between these institutions teacher to whom he applies. At the same 



and pharmaceutical industries is the rai- time that same concern most likely has 



son d'etre of this paper. some problem that should be worked out. 



The situation is something like this : Why should not a compact be made be- 



Industry makes use of the colleges in tween the management of the works, the 



two ways. First, it turns to the college teacher of the college and the graduate? 



for trained employees ; second, it fre- The industrial concern establishes an in- 



quently calls the teachers of the colleges dustrial fellowship which is awarded to 



in consultation on some knotty manufac- the graduate in question. He becomes 



turing problem. Such problems usually nominally an employee of the manufac- 



require careful, patient investigation ; re- turing concern although most of his work 



quires months of work that may or may for the year will be under the teacher of 



not lead to satisfactory results. Such the college. It might prove, however, 



problems therefore do not belong to the highly desirable to have part of the 



ordinary factory laboratory and if the work carried out under actual conditions 



concern does not possess a research la- in the works, but that is a mere detail. 



