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Achances  in  Instruction. 
/Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
1       Jan.,  1885. 
siderably  increased.  In  1877  the  present  Operative  Pharmacy  course 
was  inaugurated  ;  the  course  was  optional,  and  at  first  the  number  of 
students  who  accepted  the  opportunities  was  small,  and  the  facilities 
were  limited.  Professor  Maisch  tendered  the  use  of  the  chemical  labor- 
atory on  certain  afternoons,  and  the  course  was  conducted  by  the  Pro- 
fessor of  Pharmacy.  The  examinations  which  had  each  year  increased 
in  severity,  received  in  1877  an  additional  impulse  in  the  inauguration 
of  the  examinations  in  practical  manipulations;  this  advance  Avas  deemed 
necessary,  in  order  that  the  worth  of  the  graduates  of  the  College  should 
be- enhanced,  by  compelling  them  to  pay  especial  attention  to  excellence 
in  conducting  pharmaceutical  operations,  and  it  had  the  effect  of  at 
once  improving  the  practical  worth  of  all  students  who  attended  the 
College.  A  great  advance  Avas  made  in  1878  when  the  graded  course 
of  lectures  was  established.  The  following  extract  from  the  minutes 
of  the  Board  of  Trustees  fully  sets  forth  the  changes  : 
1.  The  instruction  to  the  junior  and  senior  students  will  be  arranged^ 
with  perhaps  slight  modifications,  according  to  the  plan  which  received 
the  sanction  of  the  "  Conference  of  the  Schools  of  Pharmacy  "  in  187G  (see 
"  Amer.  Jour,  of  Phar.,"  1876,  p.  471);  in  the  junior  department,  therefore 
the  elementary  branches  will  be  taught,  which  will  hereafter  be  omitted 
from  the  senior  course,  thus  affording  more  time  in  the  latter  for  necessary 
details  and  a  more  extended  range  of  instruction. 
2.  There  will  be  six  lecture  hours  per  week  for  each  class,  the  same  as  for 
the  undivided  class  heretofore.  The  lectures  to  the  two  classes  will  be  on 
alternate  days  so  as^to  afford  the  professors  ample  time  for  preparing  the 
necessary  specimens,  apparatus  and  experiments  in  illustration  of  the 
lectures. 
3.  Near  the  close  of  February  an  examination  of  the  junior  students  will 
be  held  ;  the  examination  for  the  degree  of  Ph.G.  will,  as  heretofore,  take 
place  early  in  March. 
4.  For  admission  to  the  senior  course  the  juniors  will  be  required  to 
successfully  pass  the  examination  in  each  branch  ;  those  failing  in  one  or 
more  branches  in  February,  will  be  granted  another  examination  towards 
the  end  of  September  previous  to  the  beginning  of  the  lectures.  Students 
who  have  attended  one  course  of  instruction  in  some  other  College  of 
Pharmacy,  before  entering  the  senior  course,  will  be  required  to  prove  that 
they  have  passed,  at  such  college,  an  examination  in  all  the  branches 
taught  to  the  juniors,  or  submit  to  the  examination  in  the  autumn. 
5.  Students  who,  previous  to  the  beginning  of  the  lectures  in  October 
next,  may  have  attended  one  full  course  of  lectures  in  this  or  another 
College  of  Pharmacy,  will  be  entitled  to  admission  to  the  senior  course 
without  previous  examination,  up  to  and  including  the  lecture  course  for 
1880-1881. 
It  will  be  observed  that  the  adopted  modification  will  vastly  increase  the- 
