574  Chairman  s  Address  on  Education.  {K^d^£*w&: 
colleges  requiring  a  full  high-school  course ;  and  Ohio  and  Indiana 
have  decided  not  to  give  "  experience  "  credit  to  graduates  unless 
they  are  from  institutions  which  demand  one  year  of  high-school 
work,  and  which  have  courses  conforming  to  certain  prescribed 
curriculum  standards.  When  we  consider  these  several  advances  ; 
when  we  realize  that  they  are  all  along  new  lines  of  progress ;  when 
we  recall  that  we  have  a  "  Conference  of  Pharmaceutical  Faculties  " 
which  is  now  beginning  to  exert  a  standardizing  influence;  and 
when  we  remember  that  a  "  National  Association  of  Boards  of  Phar- 
macy "  was  established  at  Kansas  City  last  year,  an  association 
destined  to  be  of  signal  service  in  this  new  era  of  higher  educational 
requirements — when  we  consider  these  various  phenomena  we  shall 
make  no  mistake  by  harboring  in  our  breasts  the  keenest  and  most 
sanguine  hope  for  the  future. 
Already  the  effects  upon  our  educational  system  in  pharmacy  have 
begun  to  be  apparent  and  salutary.  Colleges  have  here  and  there 
elevated  and  strengthened  their  courses  and  increased  their  entrance 
requirements,  while  the  work  of  discriminating  between  the  school?, 
and  putting  the  stamp  of  approval  and  recognition  upon  the  better 
and  the  more  efficient  institutions,  has  been  given  a  headway  which 
must  seem  ominous  to  the  colleges  whose  work  falls  below  the 
standard.  In  New  York  State  the  four  colleges  of  pharmacy  have 
made  their  entrance  requirements  and  their  curriculum  standards 
conform  to  the  demands  of  the  prerequisite  law.  In  Ohio  some  if  not 
all  of  the  many  pharmaceutical  schools  in  the  State  have  likewise 
effected  the  improvements  made  necessary  by  the  resolutions  of  the 
Board  of  Pharmacy.  And  the  New  York,  the  Pennsylvania,  and 
the  Ohio  Boards  have  all  issued  lists  of  colleges  whose  graduates, 
and  whose  graduates  only,  will  be  given  recognition  under  the  new 
order  of  things.  There  are  over  eighty  schools  of  pharmacy  in  this 
country,  and  yet  the  New  York  list  contains  but  sixteen  of  them, 
the  Ohio  list  seventeen,  and  the  Pennsylvania  list  the  twenty-one 
colleges  comprising  the  membership  of  the  Conference  of  Pharma- 
ceutical Faculties.  Before  other  schools  can  secure  place  upon  the 
rolls  of  honor,  and  make  it  possible  for  their  graduates  to  obtain 
recognition  in  these  three  States,  they  must  conform  to  the  standards 
and  come  up  to  the  scratch  line. 
There  is,  we  must  remember,  still  another  agency  operating  to 
standardize  our  colleges  of  pharmacy  and  to  separate  the  more 
