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Editorial. 
|Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
January,  19 18. 
will  and  contrary  to  their  judgment  and  knowledge  to  commit 
adulteration  of  drugs  as  defined  and  forbidden  by  an  established 
law.  G.  M.  B. 
EDUCATIONAL  ENDOWMENT. 
At  the  last  annual  convention  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association  there  was  a  noted  awakening  to  the  importance  of  en- 
couraging research  and  investigation  as  a  means  of  advancing  the 
profession  of  pharmacy.  This  was  ably  presented  by  the  President 
of  the  Association  and  likewise  in  the  instructive  address  of  the 
President  of  the  Conference  of  Pharmaceutical  Faculties.  Pharma- 
ceutical research  and  the  necessity  for  its  endowment  became  thus 
a  leading  topic  and  happily  the  movement  for  the  founding  of  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association  Research  Fund  was  in- 
augurated. 
Without  in  the  least  minimizing  the  importance  of  this  move- 
ment in  behalf  of  professional  pharmacy  or  modifying  the  views 
and  personal  interest  then  manifested,  the  writer  fears  that  in  this 
attempt  at  top-building  the  solidity  of  the  foundation,  which  de- 
mands first  consideration,  may  be  overlooked. 
Research  and  original  investigations  must  necessarily  become 
the  province  of  the  professor  and  of  the  postgraduate  student,  and 
rightly  the  thought  was  impressed  at  Indianapolis  that  each  teacher 
in  a  school  of  pharmacy  should  be  expected  to  make  annually  one 
or  more  contributions  to  the  sciences  and  literature  associated  with 
pharmacy.  These  plans  provide  for  the  adornment  of  the  upper 
stories  of  the  building  of  professional  pharmacy  and  the  need  for 
such  improvement  is  recognized  and  encouraged. 
However,  the  needs  of  the  beginner  in  pharmacy,  the  student, 
the  undergraduate  in  our  pharmaceutical  schools  is  even  more  im- 
portant, and  the  education  of  these  should  be  established  on  a  safe 
and  strong  foundation.  The  students  of  today  are  to  become  the 
pharmacists  of  the  future  and  the  leaders  of  the  profession  in  the 
next  generation.  It  behooves  pharmacy,  therefore,  to  give  timely 
consideration  to  the  educational  needs  of  the  initiatives  so  that  a 
body  of  fundamentally  well-grounded,  capable  graduates  may  be 
prepared  to  assume  the  burden  and  carry  on  the  ideals  and  upbuild- 
ing of  the  superstructure  that  we  are  now  planning. 
