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'  registered  '  college  before  he  may  appear  before  the  board  of  phar- 
macy in  this  State  for  examination.  .  .  .  While  the  rescinding 
of  the  registration  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  by  the 
New  York  regents  was  consummated  as  long  ago  as  December,  the 
Circular  has  refrained  from  saying  anything  about  it,  until  it  could 
go  into  the  matter  thoroughly,  and  it  believes  that  the  article  given 
in  its  new  columns  this  month  will  be  really  news  to  a  large  majority 
of,  if  not  practically  all,  its  readers.  That  it  will  be  read  with  a 
variety  of  emotions  by  druggists  throughout  the  country,  we 
cannot  doubt ;  for  even  if  no  one  else  were  affected,  the  thousands 
of  graduates  of  the  Philadelphia  college  scattered  throughout  the 
country — teachers,  board  members,  heads  of  large  manufacturing 
and  wholesale  establishments,  physicians,  leading  druggists  and 
citizens,  authors  and  editors — will  learn  of  the  situation  in  which 
their  alma  mater  finds  herself,  with  sorrow,  resentment,  misgivings 
or  otherwise,  as  the  matter  chances  to  strike  them.  Some  there 
will  be — indeed  we  happen  to  know  that  some  there  are — who  will 
long  for  a  return  to  the  good"  old  days  of  the  college  when  entrance 
requirements,  wrhile  perhaps  not  so  high  as  at  present,  were  really 
what  they  seemed,  when  the  diploma  was  a  true  label  for  the  grad- 
uate, when  thoroughness  was  paramount,  and  when  theatrical  show 
was' taboo." — Druggists'  Circular,  Editorial,  April,  1913. 
The  decision  of  the  board  of  regents  of  New  York,  as  outlined 
in  the  above  fragment  of  an  editorial  in  the  long-established  Drug- 
gists' Circular  of  New  York  City,  together  with  the  detailed  article 
on  the  subject  in  the  same  number  of  the  Circular,  will  strike  the 
majority  of  the  pharmacists  of  America  a  stunning  blow.  Whilst 
the  different  Boards  of  Pharmacy  and  Medicine  have  been  sup- 
pressing many  institutions,  more  or  less  prominent,  regardless  of 
their  professional  affiliations  or  ideals,  and  as  a  rule,  basing  their 
action  upon  what  in  the  opinion  of  many,  was  mere  "  theatrical 
show  in  education  "  as  a  standard  of  excellence,  those  concerned  in 
the  greater  institutions  have  seemingly  felt  little  interest  in  the 
matter.  As  a  parallel  to  this,  one  may  well  turn  to  JEsop,  and  read 
the  fable  of  the  blacksmith  and  the  lion.  Note  how  the  lion  sub- 
mitted to  the  paring  of  his  claws  and  the  extraction  of  his  teeth, 
one  by  one,  and  then  see,  in  the  end,  how  the  great  beast,  rendered 
harmless  and  defenseless,  was  treated  by  his  adroit  antagonist. 
Men  there  are  who  will  say  that  the  examining  boards  of  the  dif- 
