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of  this  committee  showed  also  that  of  the  students  in  pharmacy  in 
the  conference  schools,  58  per  cent,  were  high  school  graduates ;  but 
these  statistics  did  not  include  the  New  York  schools  wrhich  reported 
the  State  Pharmacy  Certificate  for  their  students,  and  not  amount 
of  secondary  education  in  high  school  years. 
The  Fairchild  Scholarship  Examination  Committee  reported  that 
the  action  taken  last  year  at  the  Indianapolis  meeting  had  converted 
the  Scholarship  into  a  Research  Fellowship,  and  that  provision  had 
been  made,  in  conformity  with  last  year's  action,  to  grant  the  Fair- 
child  Scholarship  (or  Fellowship)  on  the  following  basis: 
1.  That  it  be  limited  to  graduates  from  a  pharmacy  course  de- 
siring to  return  to  college  for  post-graduate  instruction. 
2.  That  it  be  granted  to  the  candidate  best  equipped  for  research 
work. 
3.  That  this  ability  be  determined  on  evidence  of  research  work 
previously  performed  by  the  candidate  and  embodied  in  a  thesis,  in 
a  paper  published  in  a  pharmaceutical  or  other  scientific  journal,  or 
in  an  unpublished  paper,  but  in  the  latter  case,  the  certificate  of  the 
dean  of  the  college,  to  the  effect  that  the  paper  records  work  per- 
formed by  the  candidate,  must  be  provided. 
4.  That  the  documentary  evidence  with  reference  to  research 
work  performed  by  the  candidate  be  graded  on  the  basis  of  50  credit 
units ;  that  the  candidate's  pharmaceutical  scholastic  record  be  rated 
on  the  basis  of  40  credit  units,  and  his  non-pharmaceutical  scholastic 
record  (above  high  school  grade),  at  10  credit  units. 
The  opening  session  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association 
was  held  Tuesday  evening,  April  13,  and  was  well  attended.  Prof. 
J.  U.  Lloyd  pronounced  a  most  eloquent  invocation,  after  which 
President  A.  R.  L.  Dohme  read  his  address,  an  able  and  interesting 
one,  dealing  in  the  main  with  the  subject  of  the  proposed  federation 
of  the  various  pharmaceutical  organizations. 
The  National  Association  of  Boards  of  Pharmacy  held  several 
interesting  sessions,  and  one  joint  session  with  the  Conference  of 
Pharmaceutical  Faculties.  The  resolution  of  special  interest  was 
to  the  effect  that  steps  be  taken  to  determine  upon  a  minimum  stand- 
ard for  colleges  and  for  pharmacy  courses  with  the  view  to  recog- 
nition of  colleges  by  the  National  Association  of  Boards  of  Pharmacy. 
The  Executive  Committee  of  the  National  Drug  Trade  Con- 
ference held  a  meeting  on  August  13  and  decided  to  call  upon  the 
