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Editorial. 
f  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
January,  19 19. 
Special  Training  gave  us  to  understand  that  schools  of  pharmacy 
would  receive  the  same  treatment  as  is  accorded  to  other  institu- 
tions of  learning,  and  that  no  special  privileges  would  be  extended 
to  them  as  it  was  not  within  the  province  of  the  committee  to  grant 
special  privileges.  The  published  regulations  on  Student  Army 
Training  Corps  fully  cover  the  requirements  demanded  of  any 
educational  institution  before  they  can  secure  the  Student  Army 
Training  Corps  unit.  First:  The  institution  must  require  for  ad- 
mission to  its  regular  curriculum,  graduation  from  a  standard  four 
year  secondary  school  or  its  equivalent.  Second :  It  must  originally 
provide  a  general  curriculum  covering  at  least  two  years  of  not  less 
than  32  weeks  each.  Third:  It  must  have  a  student  attendance 
sufficient  to  maintain  a  section  of  a  Student  Army  Training  Corps 
Unit  of  a  strength  of  at  least  one  hundred  men.  Colleges  connected 
with  universities  that  have  an  S.  A.  T.  C.  unit  may  secure  these 
privileges  even  though  they  do  not  have  one  hundred  students. 
"Any  college  of  pharmacy,  as  I  understand  it,  that  meets  these 
requirements  may  have  a  Student  Army  Training  Corps  Unit. 
"  The  committee  made  it  clear  that  they  do  not  consider  it  neces- 
sary that  there  be  organized  vocational  units  in  colleges  of  pharmacy. 
"The  committee  asked  the  men  called  in  conference  to  prepare 
and  submit  to  them  a  curriculum  for  colleges  of  pharmacy  that  in 
their  opinion  would  meet  the  present  war  needs.  The  curriculum  to 
he  approved  or  disapproved  by  the  Educational  Committee,  and  if 
approved,  to  be  used  as  a  sample  curriculum  to  be  sent  to  all  colleges 
of  pharmacy  that  wish  to  maintain  a  Student  Army  Training  Corps 
Unit.  "  V ery  truly  yours, 
"  C.  B.  Jordan." 
Previous  to  the  receipt  of  the  above-mentioned  zvire  from  Wash- 
ington on  September  26,  I  had  not  attended  nor  been  invited  to 
attend  any  conference  concerning  this  matter. 
When  I  received  this  wire,  I  assumed  that  the  invitation  came 
to  me  because  I  am  President  of  the  American  Conference  of 
Pharmaceutical  Faculties,  and  so  wired  Dr.  Koch  asking  whether 
the  A.  C.  Ph.  F.  would  pay  my  expenses  to  the  meeting  and  stating 
the  time  and  place  of  the  meeting.  While  returning  from  the 
Washington  Conference,  I  stopped  in  Pittsburgh,  September  30,  and 
had  an  interview  with  Dr.  Koch  in  which  I  gave  him  a  report  of 
this  conference. 
