484  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.     { A™c^ber,Pimm' 
In  connection  with  this  proposition  Dr.  O.  A.  Wall,  of  St.  Louis, 
read  a  paper  in  which  he  asserted  that  the  compulsory  requirement 
of  preliminary  education  was  un-American  and  unfair  to  a  large 
number  of  the  young  men  of  our  country,  he  deplored  the  drifting 
of  colleges  of  pharmacy  from  the  teaching  of  commercial  branches 
of  pharmacy  into  an  ultra  scientific  field. 
Dr.  Taylor,  of  New  York,  called  attention  to  what  he  considered 
to  be  inaccuracies  in  the  paper  presented  by  Dr.  Wall  and  expressed 
the  opinion  that  the  requirements  contained  in  the  original  proposi- 
tion were  reasonable  and  readily  attainable. 
The  proposition  was  further  discussed  at  some  length  without 
reaching  a  definite  conclusion  when  adjournment  was  called  for. 
Second  Session,  Tuesday,  September  4,  1906. — The  section  was 
called  to  order  on  Wednesday  morning  when  the  chairman  announced 
that  the  committee  directly  in  charge  of  the  programme  of  this  sec- 
tion had  recast  several  of  the  propositions  and  desired  to  present 
them  in  this  revised  form. 
This  being  agreed  to  the  secretary  was  requested  to  read  the 
propositions,  as  follows : 
(1)  No  person  shall  be  licensed  to  practice  as  an  assistant  phar- 
macist who  has  not  attained  the  age  of  twenty-one  years. 
(2)  The  pharmaceutical  training  and  experience  required  for  the 
licensing  of  assistant  pharmacists  should  together  occupy  not  less 
than  four  years,  all  of  which  may  consist  of  drug  store  practice,  or 
may  consist  of  three  years'  drug  store  practice  and  one  academic 
year's  work  in  a  pharmaceutical  school,  or  of  two  years'  drug  store 
practice  and  two  academic  years'  work  in  a  school  of  pharmacy. 
(3)  No  person  should  be  licensed  as  a  registered  pharmacist  and 
given  the  right  to  conduct  a  pharmacy  who  has  not  served  at  least 
two  years  as  an  assistant  pharmacist. 
(4)  The  pharmaceutical  college  training  and  drug  store  experience 
required  for  the  licensing  of  registered  pharmacists  should  together 
occupy  not  less  than  five  years,  of  which  not  less  than  three  years 
should  be  drug  store  experience,  and  graduation  from  an  approved 
school  of  pharmacy  should  be  required  of  all  candidates  lor  license 
as  registered  pharmacists. 
(5)  All  candidates  for  license  to  practice  pharmacy  should  be 
required  to  pass  such  examinations  as  may  in  the  opinion  of  the 
Board  of  Pharmacy  be  deemed  necessary.    Due  credit  should  be 
