606  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.  {  A  AUJ°st"  i?™' 
Committee  on  Examinations  reported  that  Emil  Albert  Wepfer 
and  Norman  C.  Braker  had  furnished  satisfactory  evidence  of  four 
years'  practical  experience  and  that  they  be  declared  graduates  and 
granted  a  diploma  (Ph.G.)  at  the  next  commencement.  It  was  so 
ordered. 
Special  Diploma  Committee  reported  that  diplomas  were  needed 
for  the  Phar.D.  degree  and  that  some  changes  in  the  wording  was 
necessary.  Approved. 
Mr.  French  read  a  communication  from  the  State  Department 
of  Education,  Albany,  N.  Y.,  dated  March  29,  1918,  as  follows: 
"  I  have  pleasure  in  advising  you  that  the  Board  of  Regents,  at 
their  meeting  held  March  28,  formally  registered  the  Philadelphia 
College  of  Pharmacy  as  an  approved  School  of  Pharmacy. 
Yours  very  truly, 
(Signed)    Augustus  S.  Downing, 
Assistant  Commissioner." 
Mr.  Cliff e  moved  that  the  Special  Committee  on  New  York 
matters  be  discharged  with  the  thanks  of  the  board  for  their  long, 
arduous  and  very  successful  labors.    So  ordered. 
Mr.  French  read  a  letter  from  Mrs.  Wm.  E.  Lee,  Secretary  W. 
O.  N.  A.  R.  D.,  relative  to  granting  scholarships  to  women  students 
and  thus  encouraging  them.  The  subject  was  fully  discussed,  when 
on  motion  the  Committee  on  Scholarships  was  authorized  to  convey 
to  Mrs.  Lee  the  sentiments  of  the  board. 
Prof.  Charles  H.  LaWall  verbally  expressed  his  appreciation  of 
his  election  to  the  Chair  of  Theory  and  Practice  of  Pharmacy. 
A  communication  was  read  from  Prof.  E.  Fullerton  Cook,  ex- 
pressing his  appreciation  of  the  honor  conferred  by  his  election  to  a 
full  professorship. 
A  formal  statement  was  also  read  from  Professor  Cook  giving 
to  the  College,  apparatus,  etc.,  in  the  Pharmaceutical  Laboratory, 
bequeathed  to  him  by  the  late  Prof.  Remington.  This  was  accepted 
with  the  thanks  of  the  board. 
The  request  of  Henry  Morris,  P.D.,  Class  of  191 1,  that  his  name 
on  diploma  be  changed  from  Morris  Hamowitz  to  Henry  Morris  in 
accordance  with  the  decree  issued  by  the  Probate  Court,  State  of 
Michigan,  was  on  motion  granted. 
One  application  for  Life  Membership,  seventy-seven  applica- 
tions for  Active  Membership  and  forty-one  applications  for  Asso- 
