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Henry  Kraemer  of  the  University  of  Michigan  was  president  of 
the  Conference  for  1917-1918  and  presided  at  all  sessions  of  the 
meeting.  In  his  presidential  address  he  discussed  several  topics  of 
interest  and  importance  to  pharmacy  and  colleges  of  pharmacy,  the 
most  prominent  of  which  was  a  strong  plea  for  two  distinct  classes 
of  drug  stores,  the  commercial  and  the  professional,  with  corre- 
sponding courses  in  colleges  of  pharmacy,  one  preparing  for  the 
practice  of  commercial  pharmacy  and  the  other  for  the  practice  of 
professional  pharmacy.  F.  J.  Wulling,  of  Minnesota,  read  a  paper 
supporting  the  plea  of  President  Kraemer  for  two  kinds  of  phar- 
macies. 
After  consideration  of  recommendations  made  by  President 
Kraemer,  the  conference  adopted  the  following  resolutions : 
1.  That  a  special  committee  of  three  be  appointed  by  the  incom- 
ing president  to  consider  and  report  on  the  question  of  the  estab- 
lishment of  two  distinct  classes  of  pharmacies,  namely,  the  com- 
mercial drug  store  and  the  professional  pharmacy,  this  committee 
to  work  with  a  corresponding  committee  of  the  National  Association 
of  Boards  of  Pharmacy,  if  such  a  committee  is  appointed  by  that 
organization. 
2.  That  a  committee  be  appointed  by  the  incoming  president  to 
work  out  methods  of  presenting  the  advantages  of  pharmacy  as  a 
calling  to  high-school  students  of  the  country. 
3.  To  continue  the  agitation  for  the  standardization  of  degrees 
granted  by  colleges  of  pharmacy. 
The  report  of  Secretary-Treasurer  T.  J.  Bradley  showed  that 
the  conference  now  has  forty-six  member  schools,  and  that  the 
finances  of  the  organization  are  in  a  prosperous  condition,  there 
being  a  balance  of  slightly  more  than  a  thousand  dollars  in  the  treas- 
ury, with  all  bills  paid.  On  recommendation  of  the  secretary-treas- 
urer it  was  voted  to  request  that  the  proceedings  of  the  joint  ses- 
sion of  the  conference  and  the  Association  of  Boards  of  Pharmacy 
be  published  in  the  Journal  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Asso- 
ciation. 
Chairman  J.  A.  Koch  made  a  report  for  the  Executive  Committee, 
in  which  it  was  shown  that  58  per  cent,  of  the  new  students  matricu- 
lated in  191 7  in  the  colleges  of  pharmacy  of  the  country  were  grad- 
uates of  high  schools,  or  had  an  equal  or  better  preliminary  educa- 
tion, and  that  the  other  42  per  cent,  of  the  new  matriculants  had 
