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to  any  student  without  drug-store  experience.  No  such  school  ever 
refused  to  allow  a  student  to  finish  his  course  without  drug-store 
experience.  No  college  requiring  drug-store  experience  for  gradua- 
tion has  ever  refused  to  confer  its  diploma  upon  any  student  who 
finished  his  college  course  first  and  had  all  his  drug-store  experience 
afterwards  as  soon  as  he  could  show  that  he  had  had  it. 
Several  things  are  necessary  to  make  a  school  of  pharmacy  efficient, 
but  drug-store  experience  as  a  graduation  requirement  is  evidently 
not  one  of  them.  It  is  entirely  possible  for  the  poorest  school  of 
pharmacy  in  existence  to  demand  drug-store  experience  for  gradua- 
tion and  for  the  best  school  not  to  require  it.  No  man  who  knows 
enough  about  the  pharmaceutical  schools  of  our  country  to  give  his 
opinion  any  weight  can  deny  that  if  the  line  be  drawn  between 
schools  that  base  their  diplomas  in  part  upon  drug-store  training 
and  schools  that  do  not,  several  of  our  best  schools  will  be  found  on 
either  side  of  the  line  and  several  of  the  weakest  as  well.  It  is, 
therefore,  evident  that  any  pharmacy  law  which  calls  upon  Boards 
to  exempt  from  examination  the  graduates  of  schools  retaining  the 
drug- store  experience  requirement  for  graduation,  and  to  deny  that 
recognition  to  the  graduates  of  all  other  schools,  must  be  regarded 
as  wholly  obsolete,  stupid,  unjust,  in  many  cases  discriminating  in 
favor  of  inferior  schools  and  against  better  schools,  and  thereby 
defeating  its  own  ends. 
The  pharmacy  laws  of  Alabama,  Arkansas,  Delaware,  Florida, 
Missouri,  New  Mexico  and  West  Virginia  are  now  the  only  laws 
which  authorize  the  Boards  to  license  without  examination  the 
graduates  of  any  college  of  pharmacy  prescribing  three  or  four 
years'  drug-store  experience  as  a  graduation  requirement.  But  the 
Boards  of  Florida  and  New  Mexico  refuse  to  license  any  person 
without  examination. 
THE  AMERICAN  CONFERENCE  OF  PHARMACEUTICAL 
FACULTIES. 
SYNOPSIS  OF  THE  PROCEEDINGS,  SEPTEMBER,   I Q06. 
The  seventh  annual  meeting  was  called  to  order  by  President 
Whelpley  at  3.30  p.m.,  September  5,  1906. 
The  following  institutions  were  represented : 
