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Correspondence. 
/Am.  Tour.  Pharm. 
<■      Sept.,  1918. 
"  That  it  be  the  sense  of  the  Conference  that  Mr.  Fairchild  could 
render  the  greatest  service  to  pharmacy  by  offering  the  scholarship 
to  a  graduate  pharmacy  student,  in  order  that  he  might  pursue  some 
research  problem  for  one  full  school  year,  in  the  school  of  his  choice  ; 
and  further,  that  this  scholarship  be  awarded  on  the  basis  of  the 
applicant's  scholastic  training,  his  standing  as  an  undegraduate  phar- 
maceutical student  and  upon  his  fitness  to  do  research." 
The  committee  to  whom  the  matter  of  formulating  a  definite 
plan  for  awarding  the  Fairchild  Scholarship  was  referred  consists 
of  H.  C.  Christensen,  chairman,  4149  Vincennes  St.,  Chicago,  111. ; 
Prof.  J.  W.  Sturmer,  145  N.  10th  St.,  Philadelphia;  Dr.  George  C. 
Diekman,  115  West  68th  St.,  New  York,  and  Dr.  R.  A.  Lyman,  c/o 
The  University  of  Nebraska,  Lincoln,  Neb. 
The  committee  has  decided  that  in  making  the  award : 
The  ability  of  the  candidate  to  perform  research  work  be  given 
a  value  of  50  credit  units ;  the  pharmaceutical  scholastic  record  a 
value  of  40  credit  units ;  and  the  non-pharmaceutical  scholastic 
record  (above  high  school  grade)  a  value  of  10  credit  units. 
Further,  that  the  candidate's  ability  to  perform  research  work 
be  determined  upon  evidence  of  research  work  previously  accom- 
plished, and  that  such  evidence  may  take  the  form  of  a  thesis  pre- 
sented at  a  college  of  pharmacy,  or  a  paper  covering  research  work 
carried  out  at  a  college,  but  in  the  latter  case  it  should  be  accom- 
panied by  a  certification  from  the  dean  that  the  paper  represents  the 
student's  individual  work.  A  published  paper  covering  research 
work  performed  by  the  candidate  subsequent  to  his  graduation  may 
also  be  accepted  as  evidence — at  the  discretion  of  the  committee. 
The  committee  reports  further : 
"  It  is  to  be  clearly  understood  that  this  procedure  does  not  nec- 
essarily represent  the  views  of  the  members  of  this  Committee  on 
Examination  on  the  larger  problem  of  the  awarding  of  the  scholar- 
ship, but  is  merely  a  practical  plan  decided  upon  the  basis  laid  down 
at  the  Indianapolis  meeting  last  year." 
Schools  or  colleges  of  the  American  Conference  of  Pharmaceu- 
tical Faculties,  therefore  having  a  candidate  to  present  for  the  Fair- 
child  Scholarship,  should  at  once  send  his  credentials,  etc.,  to  Chair- 
man H.  C.  Christensen,  4149  Vincennes  St.,  Chicago,  so  as  to  reach 
him  not  later  than  October  1,  in  order  that  the  award  may  be  made 
soon  thereafter. 
