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same  degree.  Touching  the  contention  of  our  own  Professor  Rem- 
ington that  P.  D.  as  an  abbreviation  legitimately  applies  only  to 
the  degree  Doctor  of  Pharmacy,  and  that  its  use  as  indicating  any 
other  degree  is  clearly  a  species  of  larceny,  so  to  speak,  Dr.  Wall 
tells  his  readers  that  "  No  institution  can  claim  exclusive  right  to 
an  ambiguous  initial  abbreviation  for  any  particular  study  .  .  . 
and  if  there  are  any  who  feel  aggrieved  at  the  resulting  ambiguity 
they  can  use  correct  academic  syllabic  abbreviations  for  their  own 
degrees." 
Authorities  contend  that  in  the  beginning  there  was  but  one 
degree  conferred  in  pharmacy,  that  of  Ph.G.  meaning  that  the 
bearer  of  the  same  had  been  graduated  by  a  college  of  pharmacy, 
or  indicating  merely  the  fact  that  the  owner  had  completed  a  certain 
prescribed  course  in  pharmacy  of  which  his  diploma  bore  evidence 
and  the  symbol  Ph.G.  was  the  sign  thereof.  Hence  rightly  con- 
strued the  title  Pharmacy  Graduate,  or  its  symbol  Ph.G.,  is  not  in 
any  sense  to  be  considered  as  a  degree.  So  far  as  I  have  been  able 
to  consult  authority  on  the  subject  of  degrees  in  pharmacy  there  are 
but  three  that  carry  the  right  to  attach  to  one's  name  with  any 
real  meaning,  these  are  Bachelor,  Doctor,  Master.  Bachelor  of 
Pharmacy  means,  just  as  the  term  bachelor  does  when  applied  to 
an  unmarried  man— an  incomplete  man — so  Bachelor  of  Pharmacy 
means  an  incomplete  pharmacist.  Thus  it  would  seem  that  when  a 
student  has  graduated  from  a  limited  prescribed  course  of  study 
in  pharmacy  he  should  be  granted  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Phar- 
macy, Ph.B.  instead  of  as  is  now  the  practice  the  term  Graduate 
in  Pharmacy,  or  Ph.G.  When  a  student  has  attained  to  the* posses- 
sion of  this  inferior  degree,  and  has  succeeded  by  right  thereof  in 
becoming  registered  as  a  pharmacist  on  the  roll  of  the  State  Board 
of  Pharmacy  he  should  earnestly  strive  at  as  early  a  stage  in  his 
career  as  possible  to  arrive  at  the  top  by  fitting  himself  through 
study  and  experience  and  the  taking  of  a  post-graduate  course  to 
earn  that  highest  degree  in  his  profession  that  can  be  reached  in 
course,  Doctor  of  Pharmacy. 
The  degree  Master  of  Pharmacy  should  never  be  conferred  upon 
any  one  who  has  merely  spent  a  few  terms  in  a  College  of  Phar- 
macy, but  should  by  all  means  be  sacredly  reserved  and  held  invio- 
late for  conferring  upon  such  good  men  and  true  as  have  by  signal 
service  rendered,  unselfishly,  and  for  the  good  of  their  fellows, 
earned  the  right  of  recognition  and  to  have  that  honorable  title 
