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schools  was  filling  the  vacancies,  discouraging  good  education  and 
training. 
"This  young  man  had  come  from  'filling  in'  a  position  in  one 
of  the  stores  in  a  lively  town  of  the  state.  On  leaving,  the  pro- 
prietor told  him  that  he  had  never  had  a  clerk  with  whom  he  was 
satisfied  until  he  had  hired  a  college  man.  A  few  days  before  this 
young  man  left  the  store  referred  to,  the  proprietor  told  him  he  was 
very  glad  to  have  had  him  because  it  had  taught  him  how  valuable 
a  trained  college  pharmacist  was  to  a  store. 
"This  testimony,  it  should  be  said,  was  not  prompted  by  any 
views  expressed  by  myself." 
Furthermore  Dean  Sayre  said  that  college  education  is  neces- 
sary in  order  that  our  after  lives  may  be  satisfactory  to  ourselves. 
He  urged  college  men  to  continue  their  pharmaceutical  activities 
through  alumni  association  work.  He  stated  that  in  Kansas  there 
were  1,000  pharmacists  who  had  never  taken  college  work  and  that 
these  men  had  soon  come  to  be  at  a  disadvantage  with  the  college 
men,  and  that  college  men  are  usually  well  rounded  and  broad  com- 
mercially and  scientifically.  The  results  of  an  investigation  concern- 
ing the  location  and  occupations  of  1,000  graduates  of  the  University 
of  Kansas  were  discussed  and  he  stated  that  the  college  men  carry 
on  a  great  diversity  of  work  and  that  they  were  uniformly  suc- 
cessful. 
Dean  Sayre  discussed  the  college  curriculum  in  relation  to  the 
students,  stating  that  the  college  should  be  broad  and  that  it  should 
attempt  to  educate  and  train  young  men  and  women  for  whatever 
locations  they,  as  pharmacists,  may  find  themselves  in  the  future. 
He  strongly  urged  students  with  special  likings  to  take  advanced 
work  along  these  lines.  Students  who  follow  specific  lines  are  more 
likely  to  meet  with  exceptional  success,  he  declared. 
Close  acquaintanceship  among  students  was  recommended  and 
the  value  of  such  comradeship  was  emphasized  by  reminiscent  re- 
marks concerning  the  time  when  the  speaker  was  a  student  at  the 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  where  lasting  friendships  were 
formed  with  such  men  as  Maisch,  Procter  and  Parrish.  Following 
this  thought  further  the  value  of  association  with  men  of  national 
reputation  was  emphasized. 
Dean  Sayre  expressed  the  hope  that  what  he  had  said  would  not 
be  taken  in  any  way  as  an  attack  upon  short-course  schools  but 
rather  it  was  his  belief  that  such  courses  should  be  lengthened  to  a 
