494  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  {^pimbefS?1' 
BETTER  EDUCATION  IN  PHARMACY. 
By  J.  B.  Nagelvoort. 
The  latter  gentleman  advocated  a  high  standard  for  the  persons  engaged  in  the 
responsible  positions  of  the  business.  Both  papers  were  received  and  referred 
to  the  Publication  Committee.  Considerable  discussion  followed.  All  agreed 
that  store  experience  was  necessary  for  success  in  business.  Prof.  Prescott 
discussed  the  advantages  and  disadvantages  of  obtaining  the  store  experience 
before  and  after  college  training.  He  believed  it  would  be  best  for  the  student 
to  pass  from  the  High  School  into  the  College  of  Pharmacy  without  interrupt- 
ing his  habits  of  study,  and  stated  that  the  graduates  of  the  University  of 
Michigan  School  of  Pharmacy  thought  experience  in  the  store  after  graduation 
produced  better  results  than  experience  gained  before  attending  college.  Mrs. 
Miner  thought  college  work  and  store  experience  should  be  alternated,  the 
apprentice  serving  at  least  a  year  before  attending  college  instruction.  Prof. 
Caspari  thought  the  practical  experience  a  student  would  get  in  the  laboratory 
of  a  college  preferable  to  that  which  he  would  acquire  in  a  store.  Prof.  Old- 
berg  held  the  same  opinion,  and  thought  a  student  could  readily  obtain  store 
experience  after  graduation.  Messrs.  Mayo,  Hurty,  Whelpley,  Hallberg  and 
McGill  also  participated  in  the  discussion,  which  served  to  bring  out  the  com- 
plexity of  opinion  on  the  subject  of  applying  pharmaceutical  education. 
Adjournment  was  moved  and  carried. 
The  second  session  of  the  Section  on  Pharmaceutical  Education  and  Legisla- 
tion met  at  3.30  p.m. 
The  reading  of  the  minutes  of  the  first  session  was  dispensed  with. 
Nominations  for  officers  during  the  ensuing  year  being  again  open,  and  no  one 
else  having  been  nominated,  Prof.  Beal  withdrew  his  name  for  chairman,  in  order 
that  Prof.  Hallberg  might  be  unanimously  elected.  Prof.  Beal  was  then  nomi- 
nated for  secretary,  and  Dr.  Bartley,  who  had  been  nominated  at  the  previous 
session,  withdrew  in  order  that  Prof.  Beal's  election  might  also  be  unanimous. 
Prof.  Hallberg  read  a  report  on  the  registration  statistics  of  the  United  States, 
which  showed  that  fifty  per  cent,  of  the  applicants  for  registered  pharmacist's 
license  in  1894  had  successfully  passed  the  examinations  ;  that  sixty-six  per 
cent,  of  those  taking  the  assistant's  examination  had  been  granted  certificates  ; 
and  that  the  whole  number  of  pharmacists  registered  during  1894  was  3,500. 
The  matter  of  regulating  graduation  requirements,  which  the  Association  had 
undertaken  last  year  at  Asheville,  and  which  they  sought  to  facilitate  by  send- 
ing out  a  sheet  asking  the  opinion  of  colleges,  was  laid  on  the  table  by  a  vote  of 
the  session.  Some  of  the  members  present  expressed  their  hopes  that  the  As- 
sociation would,  in  the  future,  leave  such  matters  alone.  Mr.  Sheppard  recom- 
mended some  requirements  which  would  guarantee  to  State  Boards  that  appli- 
cants for  licenses  had  been  afforded  some  actual  practice.  The  recommenda- 
tions were  amended  somewhat  by  Prof.  McGill.  They  were  then  to  the  effect 
that  an  applicant  far  a  pharmacist's  license  must  have  an  academic  education 
equal  to  that  required  for  entrance  to  a  high  school,  must  have  attended  for  six 
months  a  college  of  pharmacy,  receiving  during  that  time  both  didactic  and 
laboratory  instruction,  and  must  show  evidence  of  having  had  thirty-six  months 
of  practical  experience  exclusive  of  the  time  spent  at  college. 
Mr.  Ebert  moved  that  the  recommendations  be  referred  to  the  state  associa- 
tions, and  it  was  so  ordered. 
