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THE A L UMN1 JO URN A L . 



West. When will we in the East awake 

 out of our lethargy and see that the sons 

 and daughters are ascending the hilltops 

 carrying the hopes of pharmaceutical 

 education ? When will we see that in 

 laboring for the things that glitter we 

 are securing the things that must soon 

 vanish ? When will we learn that qual- 

 ity is more desirable than quantity and 

 that requirements which bring numbers 

 are not likely to develop efficient men ? 



There is probably no city in the world 

 where so much wealth is concentrated as 

 in New York City, and there is probably 

 no place where such generosity is shown 

 in the support of institutions of educa- 

 tion as in New York City. It is highly 

 probable that if the College of Pharmacy 

 of the City of New York really wanted a 

 Pharmaceutical Fellowship, that her 

 Board of Trustees and others would be 

 able without much difficulty to secure a 

 fund of a thousand dollars annually and 

 so be able to provide two fellowships an- 

 nually for able and deserving students. 

 It the Trustees doubt this then there is 

 no question (for very able educators have 

 repeatedly called attention to this) that 

 it would be far more profitable for the 

 College of Pharmacy of the City of New 

 York to provide a fellowship with its 

 prize money rather than divide it among 

 the prize men. The hundred dollar prize 

 is very insufficient for further study to 

 any of the prize students, and the writer 

 is never aware of any prize student of 

 any institution that used the money 

 either for the benefit of his alma mater 

 or his profession, but he has seen it re- 

 peatedly bestowed upon " the falsely 

 ambitious student" and "superficial 

 student," whose only merits were their 

 ability to cram so many lectures or do 

 in a similar manner a certain amount of 

 practical work. 



A fellowship in the College of Phar- 

 macy of the City of New York would re- 



turn in many times its value to the in- 

 stitution in the course of ten years and 

 would be of far more lasting value to the 

 college and her students than all the 

 prize money, which is unquestionably 

 wasted so far as its object is concerned. 

 Some may commend prizes as being an 

 incentive to the class for study. This 

 motive is a wrong one and is at the least 

 a weak commendation. The arguments 

 in favor of Pharmaceutical Fellowships 

 are well known to the readers of The 

 Alumni Journal for they have been 

 well presented by Prof Kremers and 

 Prof. Patch in these columns. The require- 

 ments for a fellowship have been ably 

 prepared by E. L. Patch in his recom- 

 mendation to the American Pharmaceu- 

 tical Association last September, and we 

 reprint them again, with some modifica- 

 tions, as showing along what lines re- 

 quirements should be based : 



THE CANDIDATE. 



First. — He must be an honor graduate 

 (not necessarily a number one man) of 

 the College of Pharmacy of the City of 

 New York. 



Second. — He must pass a good physi- 

 cal examination. 



Third. — He must be free from the im- 

 pairment caused by indulgence in the use 

 of tobacco, alcoholic beverages or any 

 other vice that hinders the highest pos- 

 sible physical development and the se- 

 verest training of the body and mind. 



Fourth. — He shall present to the Ex- 

 amining Board an original paper involv- 

 ing the results of personal observation or 

 experience in some department of in- 

 vestigation of value to pharmacy. This 

 paper shall be published if considered 

 worthy. 



Fifth. — He shall pass a satisfactory ex- 

 amination in Mathematics, Geography, 

 American History, Botany, Theoretical 

 Pharmacy, Chemistry, and L,atin of 

 Pharmacy and Medicine. 



