540         Education  and  Legislation  in  Pharmacy.    { ANOvlmber,hi906?' 
right  kind  in  a  pharmacy  of  the  right  kind.  There  is  not  to  my 
knowledge  any  respectable  school  of  pharmacy  in  this  country  that 
does  not  unequivocally  subscribe  to  that  proposition.  But  no 
diploma  of  any  school  or  college  of  pharmacy  entitles  its  holder  to 
practice  pharmacy.  It  takes  a  license  from  the  Board  of  Pharmacy 
to  do  that.  It  is  not  in  any  sense  the  duty  of  any  educational  insti- 
tution to  accept  the  responsibility  for  any  drug-store  training. 
The  Boards  should  thoroughly  understand  this  question. 
Twenty  years  ago  there  were  only  twelve  schools  of  pharmacy  in 
this  country.  All  but  one  of  them  required  drug-store  experience 
for  graduation.  Now  only  four  of  those  twelve  schools  refuse  to 
confer  a  pharmaceutical  degree  without  that  requirement.  These 
four  are  the  Chicago  College  of  Pharmacy ;  the  Louisville  College 
of  Pharmacy;  the  National  College  of  Pharmacy,  of  Washington 
City ;  and  the  Howard  University  School  of  Pharmacy,  also  of 
Washington. 
Among  the  pharmacy  schools  which  formerly  required  drug-store 
experience  for  graduation  and  which  abolished  that  requirement  in 
1893  or  alter  that  year,  we  have:  California  College  of  Pharmacy, 
New  York  College  of  Pharmacy,  Maryland  College  of  Pharmacy, 
Brooklyn  College  of  Pharmacy,  the  Universities  Wisconsin,  Kansas, 
Minnesota,  Northwestern,  Ohio,  Vanderbilt  and  several  other 
institutions. 
New  York  is  the  only  State  in  which  any  legally  binding  and  fixed 
standards  of  efficiency  are  prescribed  governing  the  recognition  of 
pharmaceutical  schools.  Twenty-eight  schools  are  registered  in  New 
York  as  complying  with  those  standards.  Only  one  of  those  twenty- 
eight  schools  confers  no  degree  without  the  drug-store  experience 
requirement. 
The  American  Conference  of  Pharmaceutical  Faculties  embraces 
twenty-six  schools.  Of  these  twenty-six  the  only  ones  that  do  not 
confer  any  pharmaceutical  degree  without  the  drug- store  experience 
requirement  for  graduation  are  the  Chicago  College,  the  Louisville, 
the  National,  and  Oklahoma  University — four  in  ail. 
Among  the  colleges  which  confer  at  least  one  pharmaceutical 
degree  without  the  drug-store  experience  while  requiring  it  for  at 
least  one  other  degree  we  find  :  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy, 
Massachusetts  College,  St.  Louis,  Pittsburg,  and  others. 
Not  one  school  or  college  of  pharmacy  has  ever  refused  admission 
