Am.  Jour.  Pharm.  \ 
January,  19 19.  ' 
Editorial. 
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Now,  Mr.  Editor.,  if  I  had  anything  to  conceal,  as  is  implied  by 
your  editorial,  would  I  have  notified  Dr.  Koch  of  the  time  and  place 
of  this  meeting  prior  to  the  holding  of  the  meeting  or  would  I  have 
stopped  on  my  return  trip  and  reported  this  meeting  to  him?  If 
you  wish  confirmation  of  the  above  facts,  address  Dr.  Koch. 
From  the  above,  it  is  plain  that  your  accusations  and  implica- 
tions of  unfairness  on  our  part  are  false. 
It  is  a  well-known  fact  that  many  of  our  larger  and  older  col- 
leges of  Pharmacy  do  not  require  high  school  graduation  or  :ts 
equivalent  for  entrance  and  hence  were  not  meeting  the  require- 
ments of  the  War  Department  for  the  organization  of  Student 
Army  Training  Corps  Units.  Naturally,  the  Committee  on  Edu- 
cation and  Special  Training  desired  at  this  conference  representa- 
tives of  colleges  of  Pharmacy  that  zvere  meeting  their  requirements. 
Yet  they  did  have  at  this  meeting  representatives  of  colleges  that 
are  not  connected  with  Universities  and  were  not  meeting  the  re- 
quirements, and,  from  the  report  in  the  Journal  of  the  A.  Ph.  A.,  it 
is  plain  that  at  least  one  dean  of  a  large  and  important  proprietary 
college  was  invited  to  attend  this  meeting. 
We  are  accused  of  unfairness  because  we  were  invited  to  attend 
this  conference  and  some  of  the  other  colleges  were  not.  In  other 
words,  we  are  unfair  because  our  requirements  meet  those  demanded 
by  the  War  Department  and  we  were  ready  to  "  deliver  the  goods  " 
when  the  government  needed  them.  This  attitude  seems  to  me  to 
be  the  limit  of  "  narrowmindedness." 
When  you  wrote  your  editorial,  did  it  occur  to  you  that  there 
were  fifteen  colleges  of  Pharmacy  connected  with  Universities  that 
were  not  notified  of  this  meeting  and  were  not  invited  to  send  dele- 
gates to  it?  If  this  were  a  deliberate  attempt  to  favor  those  col- 
leges connected  with  Universities,  why  were  these  fifteen  institutions 
ignored?  The  Committee  on  Education  and  Special  Training,  evi- 
dently, had  a  definite  work  they  wished  accomplished  and  for  this 
purpose  it  was  not  necessary  or  feasible  to  have  representatives  of 
all  the  colleges  of  Pharmacy  called  into  this  conference  and  hence 
they  selected  a  few  of  each  type  of  college  to  assist  in  preparing 
the  program  for  Pharmacy  Colleges. 
You  speak  of  "fractional  spirit"  in  the  conference.  I  can  assure 
you  that  no  one  wishes  to  keep  fractional  spirit  and  discord  out  of 
the  conference  more  than  I  do,  and  I  regret  exceedingly  that  you 
rushed  into  print  before  knowing  the  facts,  because  it  is  just  such 
