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and thereby make himself a competent, trustworthy member of a learned 

 profession, with confidence in himself and pride and joy in his work, he is 

 urged to take a few weeks' course in order that he may pass the Board. 

 He is taught that the Board is an end, whereas it is but an incident, and a 

 trifling one. He is filled with the idea that if once he can pass the Board 

 and practice pharmacy legally, it matters not whether he can do it intelli- 

 gently. It robs him of the stimulus to further study or, mayhap, his de- 

 sire to take a college education. This latter, The New Idea sincerely be- 

 lieves, should be the coveted ambition of every young drug clerk, and he 

 should allow no obstacle to seem so great to him as to cause him to give 

 it up. 



Meantime the mockery of education goes on. Unsuspecting students, 

 not knowing the nature or the gravity of their error, deceived by the 

 specious claims of interested promoters, are led to invest their hard-earned 

 savings in the rankest kind of a counterfeit education, and when their 

 eyes are opened to the character of their green goods, it is too late to get 

 their money back. 



The New Idea has no intention whatever of criticising any intelligently 

 prepared and carefully conducted course of home study in pharmacy. 

 These have some value, because while in no way comparable to a course 

 given by even the poorest of pharmaceutical colleges, they are neverthe- 

 less better than the haphazard, hit-and-miss methods of studying in the 

 store too much in vogue. One of these cannot in any way adequately re- 

 place a college education, but at the same time may profitably preface the 

 course given at any college. But the openly avowed cramming concerns, 

 whose only mission is to make the student pass the Board (and inciden- 

 tally charge him a good round fee for it), are deserving of the severest 

 condemnation, as their methods are wrong, and constitute a menace not 

 only to pharmaceutical education but to pharmacy itself. — New Idea. 



"Charity's" Invitation. 



President Erb is sending out (through his secretary, Dr. Gies) the 



following : 



Dear Sir and Fei^low Graduate : 



Enclosed invitation is extended to you and your friends with the promise of a good 

 time. Try to be with us and " root" for the Alumni. 



Yours fraternally, Chas. S. Erb, President. 



Family Re-union and Outing of Charity Lodge No. 727, F. and A. M., 

 at Donnelly's Pleasure Park, College Point, Wednesday, September 5, 

 1900. Boats leave East 99th Street Ferry, N. Y., hourly. Games called 

 at I p. m. Baseball at 2 p. m., "Charity" vs. "Alumni." Dinner at 

 6 p. m. 



