ADecimbef,hitoom*}      Chairman  s  Address  on  Education.  573 
been  limited  to  the  impetus  given  the  graduation  prerequisite  move- 
ment.  Several  boards  of  pharmacy,  realizing  that  the  time  has 
come  for  advances  all  along  the  line,  have  increased  their  require- 
ments with  a  clear-sighted  courage  which  should  win  our  support 
and  admiration.  The  Ohio  Board  has  led  the  way  by  resolving 
that  hereafter  no  candidate  shall  be  given  "  experience  "  credit  for 
time  spent  in  college  unless  that  college  insists  upon  one  year  of 
high-school  work  or  its  equivalent  as  an  entrance  requirement,  and 
unless  it  exacts  80  per  cent,  of  attendance  upon  two  distinct  college 
years  of  not  less  than  twenty-six  weeks  each.  The  Indiana  Board 
has  passed  resolutions  of  practically  the  same  import,  with  the  addi- 
tional provision  that  "recognized"  colleges  must  give  work  enough 
to  render  it  impossible  for  the  student  to  be  employed  in  a  store 
contemporaneously.  The  Arkansas  Board  has  resolved  that  in  the 
future  all  candidates  for  examination  must  have  had  a  general  edu- 
cation equivalent  to  that  demanded  as  an  entrance  requirement  by 
the  graded  high-schools  of  the  State  ;  and  the  Oklahoma  Board, 
which  registers  candidates  upon  diplomas,  has  decided  that  only 
those  colleges  will  be  thus  accredited  which  require  a  full  high- 
school  training  or  its  equivalent  as  an  entrance  standard,  and  which 
have  courses  comprising  two  school  years  of  not  less  than  twenty 
weeks  each.  These  four  boards  have  rendered  a  distinct  service  by 
showing  what  can  be  done  intelligently  and  fairly  without  waiting 
for  the  slow  and  snail-like  progress  of  legislation  ;  and  every  sincere 
friend  of  pharmacy  now  looks  to  the  boards  of  other  States  to  follow 
in  the  path  which  has  been  blazed  by  these  pioneers. 
One  other  educational  advance  of  the  season  has  yet  to  be  re- 
corded. The  Michigan  pharmacists,  after  years  of  agitation  and 
trial,  have  secured  the  enactment  of  a  law  which,  among  many  other 
excellent  features,  provides  that  all  future  candidates  for  the  Board 
examination  must  have  had  a  general  education  representing  two 
years  of  high-school  work. 
What  then,  to  recapitulate,  has  the  last  year  registered  in  the  way 
of  educational  progress  ?  Pennsylvania  and  Wisconsin  have  estab- 
lished the  graduation  requirement,  following  in  the  footsteps  of  New 
York  and  Hawaii ;  Michigan  has  established  a  preliminary  standard 
of  two  years  of  high-school  work;  Arkansas  has  established  the 
grammar-school  standard  ;  Oklahoma  has  declared  that  it  will  here- 
after register  upon  diploma  only  those  graduates  who  come  from 
