THE  AMERICAN 
JOURNAL  OF  PHARMACY 
THE  SIXTY-EIGHTH  ANNUAL  MEETING  OF  THE 
AMERICAN  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION. 
The  1920  meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association, 
held  in  the  New  Willard  Hotel,  in  Washington,  May  6  to  May  10, 
is  now  an  event  of  the  past.  The  Capitol  city,  always  beautiful, 
looked  at  its  best  with  the  bright  foliage  of  the  full  spring  time  en- 
riching the  landscape  view.  With  ideal  weather  and  an  attentive 
local  committee  under  the  able  chairmanship  of  Samuel  L.  Hilton, 
determined  to  make  every  one  enjoy  himself  or  herself  to  the  utmost, 
another  memorable  cycle  in  the  history  of  American  pharmacy  was 
completed.  The  space  at  our  command  will  not  permit  of  a  re- 
count of  much  that  occurred  and  so  we  can  only  here  record  some 
of  the  occurrences  that  impressed  themselves  upon  the  writer  as  the 
high  spots  of  the  convention. 
Wednesday,  May  5,  the  day  immediately  preceding  the  opening 
of  the  A.  Ph.  A.  meeting,  was  devoted  to  meetings  of  the  collateral 
associations,  the  National  Association  of  Boards  of  Pharmacy  and 
the  American  Conference  of  Pharmaceutical  Faculties.  Probably 
the  most  important  action  considered  by  the  latter  body  was  the 
recognition  of  the  fact  that  two  years  for  the  instruction  in  the  course 
for  pharamacy  students,  as  outlined  by  the  Syllabus,  was  totally  in- 
adequate. The  conclusion  arrived  at  was  that  commencing  with 
1925  this  should  be  lengthened  to  a  three-year  course  of  instruction. 
Thoughtful  pharmacists  long  ago  realized  that  a  sound  professional 
superstructure,  the  pharmaceutical  education  now  necessary,  could 
not  be  erected,  even  with  the  improved  foundation  assured,  in 
two  years  of  collegiate  instruction.  It  appears  to  us  as  a  rather 
anomalous  position  that  this  conference,  many  of  whose  leading 
