742  Dawn  of  a  New  Era  in  Pharmacy.    {  AmN0°^^'i^f rm' 
adequate  and  comfortable  quarters  for  its  work  and  its  faculty  and 
curriculum  expanded  to  meet  the  demands  of  the  awakening  interest 
in  pharmacy  and  therapeutics.  The  allied  branches  of  the  work — 
general  chemistry,  industrial  chemistry,  physiological  chemistry,  bac- 
teriology— have  equally  been  provided  for  and  at  the  same  time 
measures  have  been  taken  to  raise  the  general  standard  of  educa- 
tional pre-college  work,  which  has  already  brought  to  the  institu- 
tion a  class  better  equipped  for  the  work  than  ever  before.  To  sup- 
ply a  broad  and  thorough  basic  education  as  a  preparation  for  our 
professional  courses,  instruction  in  the  languages,  in  mathematics, 
and  in  business  methods,  has  been  provided,  in  order  that  the  grad- 
uate shall  go  forth  well  equipped  for  work  in  the  world  and  with 
a  foundation  that  makes  possible  successful  life  work  whether  it  be 
in  pure  pharmacy  or  its  business  branches,  such  as  the  retail  drug 
business  or  the  great  manufacturing  houses  or  in  the  work  of  pure 
research  whether  it  be  botany  or  chemistry  or  physiology  or  bac- 
teriology. It  will  be  the  effort  of  the  College  to  provide  instruction 
in  its  regular  and  post-graduate  work  which  will  enable  its  students 
to  successfully  enter  the  fields  of  life  work  in  the  many  splendid 
openings  existing  today  as  real  pharmacists,  as  analytic  chemists,  as 
directors  of  great  sanitation  problems,  as  research  workers  either 
independently  or  in  the  great  laboratories  of  our  educational  and 
industrial  institutions,  to  be  directors  and  assistants  in  the  bacterio- 
logical and  biological  laboratories  of  educational  institutions,  of  gen- 
eral and  municipal  governments,  in  the  great  drug  manufacturing 
laboratories,  to  carry  on  work  of  this  kind  in  pharmacies  and  drug 
stores  which  maintain  laboratories  great  or  small  and  to  be  the  skilled 
assistants  of  physicians  in  those  important  branches  of  their  prac- 
tice involving  all  that  pertains  to  the  chemical,  bacteriological,  bio- 
logical examinations  of  their  patients  and  which  the  physician  has 
not  the  time  and  often  not  the  technical  skill  to  perform. 
A  glance  shows  the  vast  importance,  the  numerous  splendid 
openings  for  the  work  contemplated  by  the  present  organization  of 
the  College.  It  must  not  be  overlooked  also  that  the  pre-professional 
work  to  be  obtained  in  this  College  provides  the  best  possible  basis 
for  those  who  intend  ultimately  to  study  and  practice  medicine.  In 
fact  it  must  be  apparent  that  no  medical  man  can  hope  to  enter  on 
his  profession,  equipped  for  research  and  scientific  medical  attain- 
ment without  the  basal  information  given  in  the  work  of  this  school. 
The  fact  that  medicine  and  pharmacy  have  grown  apart  during 
