THE NEW YORK JOURNAL OF PHARMACY 



The Eighty-fifth Session of the New 

 York College of Pharmacy, Columbia 

 University, opened on Monday, Septem- 

 ber 21. 



The registration books for the Thurs- 

 day evening course under the direction 

 of Professor Mansfield have not been 

 opened at this writing, but from the num- 

 ber of communications received in regard 

 to this work, we are led to believe that 

 every seat will be occupied. Special drop 

 lights for the desks in the pharmacognosy 

 laboratory have been installed so that the 

 microscopic work may be pursued as 

 well as by daylight. 



The re-arrangement and addition of 

 desks in the dispensing laboratory has 

 increased our capacity in that room by 

 132 students. 



Most of the gas lights in the building 

 have been removed and high powered 

 electric Tungsten lamps substituted. 

 Painters, masons, electricians, roofers, 

 etc., have been busy all summer in the 

 building and returning students will find 

 many improvements. 



The fall supplementary examinations 

 have been held and many deficiencies 

 have been made good by men from all 

 classes. 



Mr. Roon of the Department of 

 Pharmacy has plans under way to make 

 this a big year for the student organiza- 



tions. iMany of the members of last 

 year's successful Glee and Mandolin 

 Clubs and of the Orchestra have re- 

 turned to College which gives these 

 organizations a good start for the coming 

 year. 



On Tuesday evening, October 20, the 

 first stated meeting of the College will be 

 held in the lecture hall, at which time 

 an interesting lecture on Stock Keeping 

 in the retail drug business will be given 

 by a well known New York pharmacist 



Our Professor Arny is busily engaged 

 in the preparation of a new edition of hi? 

 book. 



During the summer months the librar} 

 was entirely renovated, the lighting facil- 

 ities having been markedly improved 

 There has recently been installed a 

 crystal show-case for the exhibition of 

 the rare books which the library pos- 

 sesses and it is planned to make sys- 

 tematic exhibits of these books under 

 the proper subject, such as botany, phar- 

 macy and medieval chemistry. The 

 back numbers of the Chemisches Cen- 

 tralblatt which have been ordered to 

 complete our files of this journal have 

 been held up by the war. 



It reflects great credit on the College 

 and it will please the many friends of 

 John A. Stefifens, Phar. D., '10, to hear 

 that he has been elected to the Phi 



