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Technical  Education  and  Metrics.    {  Am.  jour.  Pharm. 
<-       April,  19 17. 
The  third  and  most  important  type  of  cooperation  is  one, 
which,  as  explained  at  some  length  by  the  writer  in  a  special  article 
on  the  subject,  is  based  on  the  establishment  of  industrial  fellowships 
in  pharmacy  along  the  lines  instituted  by  the  late  Robert  Kennedy 
Duncan  and  now  seen  in  its  fulness  at  the  Mellon  Institute  at  Pitts- 
burgh. 
Reduced  to  its  simplest  terms,  the  idea  is  this :  You  manufac- 
turers turn  to  the  colleges  for  young  men  to  break  in  for  service 
your  plants ;  you  manufacturers  have  problems  requiring  research 
that  some  of  us  teachers  might  aid  you  solve.  Why  would  it  not  be 
feasible  to  turn  such  problems  over  to  those  of  our  colleges  of  phar- 
macy providing  suitable  technical  courses  ?  Let  the  proposition  take 
the  shape  of  an  industrial  fellowship;  that  is,  let  the  teacher  select 
some  likely  graduate  to  carry  out  the  laboratory  work  under  his  su- 
pervision. The  expense  of  the  research  to  be  borne  by  the  interested 
manufacturer.  Such  an  Industrial  Fellowship  would  perform  the 
triple  service  of  (a)  encouraging  research,  (b)  trying  out  for  you 
a  likely  employee  without  wasting  the  time  of  your  own  force  in  the 
experiment,  (c)  training  the  aforesaid  likely  employee  in  the  very  lines 
in  that  he  would  be  of  most  service  to  you.  If  Duncan's  industrial 
fellowship  idea  has  proven  of  distinct  value  in  the  chemical  industry, 
there  is  no  reason  why  the  same  idea  could  not  be  applied  with  great 
success  in  a  true  cooperation  between  the  Association  of  Manufac- 
turers and  the  Colleges. 
I  am  present  with  you  this  morning  not  merely  to  convey  the 
greetings  of  the  Conferences  of  Faculties,  but  also  as  a  representa- 
tive of  the  newly  organized  American  Metric  Association.  This 
Association  was  formed  on  December  27,  last,  and  the  best  proof  of 
your  interest  was  shown  in  the  appointment  by  your  executive  board 
of  Mr.  George  Simon  to  represent  the  Association  of  Manufacturers 
on  that  occasion.  Nor  do  I  need  to  take  much  of  your  time  in  tell- 
ing you  the  advantages  of  the  metric  system.  From  the  days  when 
Dr.  Squibb  marketed  his  pharmaceutical  products  in  metric  pack- 
ages, to  the  present  time,  when  many  of  you  prepare  metric  price 
lists  for  export  business,  manufacturing  pharmacy  has  been  far- 
sighted  enough  to  see  that  the  sooner  we  become  a  metric  country 
the  better. 
At  this  time  I  wish  to  thank  the  representatives  of  the  Associa- 
tion of  Manufacturers  in  the  Drug  Trade  Conference  for  their  coop- 
eration in  securing  the  endorsement  of  the  new  A.  M.  A.  by  that 
body. 
