Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
Sept.,  19 18. 
Editorial 
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consideration  as  to  its  feasibility.  Who  shall  determine  the  lines  of 
demarcation?  The  assumption  on  the  part  of  the  university  faculties 
that  they  alone  represent  professional  pharmacy  is  pure  assumption. 
Unfortunate  indeed  would  be  the  attempt  on  the  part  of  these  in- 
terests to  differentiate  between  schools  of  pharmacy  and  to  estab- 
lish as  a  standard  for  a  college  of  pharmacy  affiliation  with  a  uni- 
versity. 
A  common  pedagogic  error  is  for  the  teacher  to  imagine  that 
he  is  the  creator  of  the  finished  product.  All  that  he  can  do  is 
to  lay  an  educational  foundation  and  then  the  application,  the  am- 
bition and  the  innate  ability  of  the  individual  determines  the  success 
of  his  future  career  and  his  professional  standing. 
The  teaching  ability  of  the  faculty,  the  equipment  of  the  college 
and  its  facilities  for  imparting  collegiate  instruction  in  pharmacy  in 
course  and  for  post  graduate  study  are  better  criteria,  than  mere 
association  or  affiliation  with  a  university,  for  determining  the  fea- 
sibility of  its  giving  higher  pharmaceutical  education. 
The  judgment  of  the  teacher  may  be  perverted  by  his  zeal  and 
ardor  for  a  new  order  of  things,  but  an  opinion  based  upon  expe- 
rience and  the  established  records  of  accomplishments  is  far  safer 
to  determine  the  practicability  of  any  proposition.  The  lives  of 
many  of  those  to  whom  we  have  accorded  honor  as  the  past  and 
present  leaders  in  American  pharmacy  and  as  the  foremost  teachers 
in  our  schools  of  pharmacy  are  worthy  of  careful  study  in  this 
respect.  Moreover,  many  of  those  to-day  sitting  in  the  foremost 
rank  of  pharmacy  are  living  examples  of  the  possibility  for  study, 
for  research  and  for  self -development  afforded  by  a  college  of  phar- 
macy not  associated  at  any  time  with  a  university. 
This  address  is  well  worth  the  most  careful  perusal  and  study  of 
every  pharmacist  and  druggist  and  without  at  all  minimizing  the 
importance  of  the  subjects  treated  therein,  the  writer  would  suggest 
that  after  this  has  been  done  that  each  reread  that  logical  pharma- 
ceutic classic  by  Dr.  James  H.  Beal,  "  Facing  the  Facts. 
Above  all,  let  those  wdio  are  striving  for  the  true  advancement 
of  pharmacy,  its  evolution  and  elevation  on  an  appropriate  basis, 
fully  recognize  th^t  too  radical  movements  cannot  succeed  and  that 
we  are  inhabitants  of  the  Earth  in  an  age  of  practical  usefulness  and 
that  pharmacy  will  be  gauged  by  the  public  in  accordance  with  its 
fulfillment  of  its  assigned  field  in  the  social  economy. 
G.  M.  B.. 
