Am.  Jour.  Pharm.  | 
January,  19 18.  ' 
Editorial. 
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As  the  sum  of  human  knowledge  increases,  in  proportion  is  in- 
creased the  educational  requirements  for  the  student.  The  school 
must  be  prepared  to  advance  its  curriculum  and  the  student  must 
devote  more  time  and  energy  to  acquiring  the  broader  education 
required.  It  is  to  be  expected  that  future  progress  will  demand 
more  thorough  pharmaceutical  education  and  necessitate  the  adop- 
tion of  more  modern  methods  of  instruction  with  better  laboratory 
facilities  and  equipments.  The  amount  of  the  instruction  as  well 
as  the  quality  thereof  that  will  henceforth  be  considered  essential 
cannot  be  compared  with  that  in  vogue  a  quarter  of  a  century  ago 
or  with  that  acceptable  at  the  present  time. 
The  cost  of  buildings  and  the  maintenance  of  schools  has  also 
very  materially  advanced  and  the  extension  of  curricula  and  the 
adoption  of  improved  methods  have  all  been  factors  that  have  added 
to  the  expense  in  the  management  of  educational  institutions.  It 
is  now  generally  conceded  that  the  fees  charged  to  the  student  in 
technical  and  professional  schools  are  sufficient  to  pay  only  a  moder- 
ate portion  of  the  actual  expenses  incurred  in  his  education,  and 
that  the  average  student  in  attendance  could  not  pay  a  fee  equiva- 
lent to  the  cost. 
This  deficit  must  be  provided  for  and  will  necessitate  some 
changes  in  the  policies  of  the  financial  management  of  such  educa- 
tional institutions  as  are  not  protected  by  state  or  national  aid. 
Ample  endowments  for  educational  purposes  must  be  available  if 
pharmacy  schools  outside  of  state  universities  are  to  continue  and 
pharmacy  is  to  advance  and  assume  its  proper  position  with  the 
other  medical  professions.  The  schools  that  have  heretofore  carried 
on  their  important  duties  to  pharmacy  cannot  be  expected  to  main- 
tain their  prestige  and  standing  without  endowments  that  will  assure 
the  income  necessary. 
That  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  has  been  able  to 
maintain  its  commanding  position  in  pharmaceutical  education  for 
nearly  a  century  while  relying  for  financial  support  upon  the  fees  of 
its  students  and  the  voluntary  contributions  of  its  members  is  a 
unique  and  anomalous  experience,  testifying  alike  to  the  economic 
and  conservative  management  and  to  the  loyalty  and  professional 
spirit  and  ability  of  its  faculty.  This  experience  cannot  be  dupli- 
cated and  to  longer  continue  this  rather  precarious  condition  is  to 
jeopardize  the  prestige  and  the  future  prosperity  of  this  dear  old 
