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are  too  many  textbook  pharmacists  and  too  few  college  pharmacists. 
He  felt  that  there  was  great  need  for  more  personal  contact  between 
the  pharmaceutical  instructor  and  the  pharmaceutical  student,  that 
there  should  be  a  direct  study  of  many  of  the  problems  concerning 
pharmacy  and  that  individual  textbook  review  could  not  possibly 
give  the  kind  of  training  which  pharmacy  demands  today.  The 
college  of  pharmacy,  he  felt,  should  represent  a  collection  and  a 
cooperation  of  students,  including  the  instructors  and  professors, 
all  of  whom  should  work  together  as  scholars  for  the  solution  of 
the  problems  of  the  profession. 
In  commenting  on  the  duties  of  the  student,  Dean  Sayre  called 
attention  to  the  fact  that  their  studies  should  not  end  with  gradua- 
tion but  rather  that  they  should  continue  as  long  as  the  individual 
carried  on  pharmaceutical  work.  The  pharmacy  students  of  today 
will  take  positions  in  the  future  along  commercial  and  professional 
lines,  he  said.  They  will  handle  the  pharmaceutical  legislation  in 
the  days  to  come. 
Dean  Sayre  referred  at  some  length  to  the  extensive  discussions 
of  the  present  time  concerning  higher  educational  requirements  for 
pharmacists.  He  stated  that  college  work  was  essential  and  referred 
to  Professor  Newcomb's  reports  on  the  conventions  of  the  A.  C.  Ph. 
F.,  N.  A.  B.  P.,  and  the  A.  Ph.  A.,  which,  he  stated,  truly  indicate 
that  all  pharmacists  are  gradually  coming  to  recognize  that  the  re- 
quirement of  college  work  would  be  advantageous  to  pharmacy. 
The  question  as  to  whether  or  not  drug  clerks  are  scarce  was 
discussed.  Dean  Sayre  asked  whether  or  not  the  scarcity  of  clerks 
was  due  to  our  present  educational  requirements,  and  in  answering 
he  stated :  "  I  am  inclined  to  believe  that  it  is  not  high  requirements, 
perhaps,  so  much  as,  maybe,  it  is  low  requirements  that  are  pro- 
mulgated and  fostered  by  certain  individuals  and  institutions.  The 
'  short  course '  and  makeshifts  for  an  education  tend  to  lower  the 
vocation  so  that  young  men  of  ability,  who  might  be  attracted  to  it, 
are  rather  repelled. 
"  Recently  it  happened  that  a  drug  clerk,  who  has  had  consider- 
able experience  as  a  clerk  in  Kansas,  came  into  my  office.  I  asked 
him  to  express  his  views  as  to  the  cause  of  the  scarcity  of  drug 
clerks.  He  remarked  that  it  was  his  experience  that  young  men 
were  being  discouraged  from  entering  the  pharmaceutical  profession 
because  of  the  fact  that  standards  were  so  low  that  the  business 
was  not  attractive  to  them.    The  output  from  the  short-course 
