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lower  its  own  standard  among  educational  institutions  but  will  also 
lower  the  standing  of  the  degree  as  given  by  other  colleges.  I 
therefore  hope  that  the  institution  which  has  already  announced 
its  intention  of  so  doing  will  recognize  this  fact  and  withdraw  its 
offer  to  grant  this  degree,  or,  increase  its  requirements  to  meet 
the  recognized  standard. 
Turning  now  to  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Pharmacy,  on  the  one 
hand  we  have  a  degree  which  has  been  granted  for  two  or  three 
years  of  work  in  pharmacy,  and  on  the  other,  we  find  the  Educa- 
tional Department  of  the  State  of  New  York  endeavoring  to  elevate 
this  degree  to  the  highest  position.  This  I  believe  to  be  an  im- 
possible task,  for  it  would  be  hard  to  conceive  of  anyone  being 
willing  to  work  six  or  seven  years  for  a  degree,  that  has  already 
been  given  for  two  or  three  years  of  work.  Should  an  unsophisti- 
cated person  start  out  on  such  a  course  he  would  doubtless  find 
out  sooner  or  later  that  he  had  made  a  mistake  and  then  he  would 
work  for  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Philosophy.  We  believe  that 
the  degree,  Doctor  of  Pharmacy,  has  already  fallen  into  disrepute. 
One  college  that  formerly  gave  the  degree  has  announced  that 
the  degree  will  no  longer  be  given.  Professor  Jordan  has  very 
ably  pointed  out  the  fact  that  the  abbreviation,  Pharm.  D.,  is  so 
similar  to  Ph.  D.  that  by  dropping  the  "  arm."  it  becomes  identical 
with  the  latter.  This  might  lead  to  dishonesty  on  the  part  of 
unscrupulous  persons  or  to  humiliation  for  the  conscientious.  In 
view  of  the  above  facts  I  offer  the  following: 
Resolved.  That  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Pharmacy  be  not 
granted  by  members  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Conference. 
Resolved,  That  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Science  be  not  given 
for  less  than  four  full  years  of  collegiate  work,  requiring  not  less 
than  120  hours  of  credit,  an  hour  of  credit  being  understood  to  be 
one  hour  of  class  work  or  two  hours  of  laboratory  work  each  week 
for  16  or  18  weeks. 
LANDMARKS  OF  PHARMACY.1 
By  Charles  H.  La  Wall. 
A  landmark,  aside  from  its  concrete  meaning  of  a  "boundary 
mark  to  a  tract  of  land,"  is  a  word  used  figuratively  to  indicate  a 
distinguishing  characteristic,  variation  or  event ;  "  that  which  marks 
*Read  at  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Pennsylvania  Pharmaceutical  As- 
sociation, June,  1913. 
