ANNOUNCEMENT FOR 1918-19 The demand for properly qualified pharmacists was never so great as it is today. Not onl are salaries higher than ever before for those employed as clerks, but there are more opportunities for advancement. The demand, however, is for good men, those having business capacity, industry, integrity, and a good pharmaceutical education. There is no likelihood that there will be any material change in this respect, unless it be to intensify the present demand for the kind of pharmacists now most needed. Employers are looking for men who have a college education, and the supply is not equal to the demand. Furthermore, the nationa! and state pure food and drug laws call for such constant care in the making of pharmaceuticals, such vigilance in the examination and testing of drugs and chemicals, that no drug store can be considered properly equipped that has not in it at least one person who is capable of applying the tests of the Pharmacopoeia. And these laws have come to stay. They may be-probably will be-modified, but they will never be repealed, because the people demand them. Pharmacists must adjust themselves to public sentiment, and the public expects pure drugs and medicines and competent persons to manufacture and dispense them. The necessary knowledge of the sciences on which the art of pharmacy is based, and the technical skill required to practice that art, are best acquired-most economically learned in a college of pharmacy. The time has gone by when any considerable amount of teaching is done in the drug store. Little, if any, didactic instruction is presented to the junior clerk, and not much technique is acquired. The demands of trade and the somewhat factory-like method of doing the technical work of the laboratory and prescription counter are alike illy adapted to the purpose of imparting instruction. In many drug stores but little manufacturing is done. In still more, practically no drug testing or assaying is thought of, and even where this is done, the facilities for doing it are usually limited, and the work is done by the proprietor or his chief clerk, no pains being taken to teach the juniors how to do it. Clerks are hired to do certain work whereby they can add to their employer's revenue, and they are paid in money, not in teaching. Usually the employer considers what he can get from an employee, not what he can give to him, either by verbal instruction, manual training, or ethical culture. And so, while there is more need than there ever was of scientific knowledge and technical skill on the part of the pharmacist, he has less opportunity for obtaining these in the daily routine of pharmacy. The college is more than ever a necessity. Without its aid it is impossible for a young man to fit himself in a reasonable time to meet the demands made upon him. When the California College of Pharmacy was established in 1872 it was not so much needed as it is now, because public sentiment did not demand so high a degree of qualification as is now expected. Now it is a necessity that a pharmacist have a scientific pharmaceutical education, such as he cannot obtain by working in a drug store without college instruction. It is this kind of instruction that the California College of Pharmacy is prepared to give. For a third of a century it has been doing its work, earnestly and honestly trying to help young people to become pharmacists in the true sense of that term. Affiliated with the University of California, its internal management and nearly all its teaching have been conducted by practical and experienced pharmacists of progressive tendencies. For years it has contended for better educated and better trained pharmacists, and it has no thought of giving up this contention. And inasmuch as the feeling in favor of demanding a college diploma of every applicant for examination by the state boards is growing so rapidly that several states have enacted laws imposing this condition, it is incumbent upon all students of pharmacy to observe the signs of the times and govern themselves accordingly. The College premises are admirably adapted to the purpose for which they were planned. The building is situated near Golden Gate Park, is spacious, conveniently arranged and well lighted. It consists of three floors, two 50 by 150 feet, and one 50 by 100 feet, entirely devoted to pharmacy, also a basement, 50 by 150 feet, for recreation. It comprises two general lecture halls, each capable of seating one hundred and fifty students; five laboratories-the Chemical, the Pharmaceutical, and the Pharmacognostical, Chemical Research, and the Bacteriological; also review class rooms, museum, library, and the students' study room; besides offices, women's room, cloak rooms, store rooms, etc., and rooms reserved for students' use. The subjects taught are chemistry, pharmacy, botany, materia medica, pharmacognosy, physiology, toxicology, and bacteriology. The teaching includes the technique of the microscope, spectroscope, polariscope, and other instruments of precision, as well as the manipulations involved in chemical and analytical work, and in operative pharmacy. Courses of lectures are also given in pharmacal jurisprudence and the business side of pharmacy. Courses of Instruction and Degrees.—(a) The completion of the two years' course in pharmacy, based upon the foundation of satisfactory completion of two years of high school work or its equivalent, leads to the degree of Graduate in Pharmacy (Ph.G.). The hours of instruction are from 8 A.M. to 12 M. daily, during which hours each student is expected to be in attendance. (b) The degree of Pharmaceutical Chemist (Ph.C.) is awarded upon completion of a three years' professional course in pharmacy; that is, a course based upon satisfactory completion of four years' standard high school preparation, or its equivalent, and including three years of work in pharmacy of collegiate grade. (c) The degree of Bachelor of Pharmacy (Phar.B.) is conferred upon completion of the four years' professional course based upon satisfactory completion of four years' standard high school preparation, or its equivalent. Drug Store Experience.-The California College of Pharmacy no longer demands drug store experience as a condition of graduation. Not that it does not believe in the value of such experience, but because the college should not be held to account for any experience, information, etc., which candidates for graduation may receive outside. The degree is based entirely upon the instruction given and work done at the college. A Course in Pharmacy Preparatory to the Study of Medicine.-Those of our graduates who have become practicing physicians are unanimous in declaring that their course in pharmacy has been of great value to them in their medical practice. As drug store experience is no longer demanded as a condition of graduation, persons intending to study medicine can now receive their pharmaceutical diplomas on the completion of their course in this college. Present Aims and Purposes.-The California College of Pharmacy provides systematic instruction in subjects pertaining to pharmacy, and has, from the first, kept abreast of the best pharmaceutical schools in this country. It has not sought to secure the greatest number of students, but to do the greatest amount of good. It has created a sentiment among pharmacists in favor of higher education. It believes that the pharmacist should be possessed of some culture before he enters upon his special training, and therefore urges him to complete his high school course, if possible, before entering college. Extra Instruction.-For the benefit of those students who are conditioned, or who from any cause do not make satisfactory progress in any subject, arrangements have been made whereby they can receive special assistance in those studies in which they are deficient. The hours of instruction are set for a time that does not interfere with the regular college work. A nominal charge is made for this special instruction. Special Students.-The advantages of this college are offered to those persons who may wish to receive instruction and perform the laboratory work, but who do not wish to take the regular course, or to comply with all the conditions required to obtain a degree. They can enter as special students in any or all of the subjects taught, by paying the fees for such as they take. San Francisco as an Educational Center.-San Francisco as an educational center has few equals in the United States. In addition to its excellent grammar and high schools, seminaries, and academies, it has many institutions for academic, scientific, and technical instruction. Besides several large libraries, supported by subscription, it has a most excellent free library, which is used by all classes of citizens. There are also manufacturing establishments, such as acid works, pharmaceutical and serum laboratories, glass works, oil and paint factories, etc., which the students are privileged to visit in company with the professors. The Library Committee will be pleased to receive donations of books pertaining to pharmacy and the allied sciences. Climatic Conditions. It is never too hot or too cold in San Francisco to work with comfort. There is no exhaustion or sickness due to heat or cold; malaria and zymotic diseases are rare. The new and commodious building erected by the state for the College of Pharmacy is a delightful place to work in, being spacious, light, airy, and well ventilated. The view from the laboratories is unparalleled, overlooking Golden Gate Park, the Golden Gate, and Mount Tamalpais. Boarding and Lodging.-Board and lodging can be obtained in San Francisco for from twenty-five to thirty dollars a month, and restaurants abound in which meals can be had from twenty-five to fifty cents. Single furnished rooms may be had, without board, for from eight to ten dollars per month. Employment. There are about three hundred and fifty drug stores in San Francisco and vicinity (Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda, San Rafael, etc.), and of late years practically all who wish to do relief work while attending college have done so, receiving fair compensation for the services rendered. In this way some students earn their board and carfare and others a less amount. The Dean keeps a register for the purpose of bringing employers and employees together. The Directors Scholarship of a full year's tuition in the graduate class is awarded each year to the senior student who, in the judgment of the Faculty, is most likely to do the best research work in one or more of the subjects taught in the college. Applications for this scholarship must be made to the Dean not later than the first Thursday in December. REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION A. FOR THE DEGREE OF GRADUATE OF PHARMACY 1. Applicants must be at least seventeen years old, except in the case of graduates of high schools, of accredited schools, of normal schools, or of other institutions of a grade equal to the above, who may be admitted at sixteen years of age. (While it is advisable that students shall have had one or two years' practical training in a drug store before entering the college, it is not required.) 2. Applicants will be accepted who bring any of the following credentials: (a) Certificates of graduates from high schools. (b) Diplomas of graduation from schools or academies accredited by the State University. (See Circular of Information of the University of California.) (c) Certificates of sufficient standing in other institutions of collegiate grade. (d) Diplomas from normal schools of this or other states. (e) First-grade teachers' certificates of this or other states. 3. Applicants who do not present any of the foreging credentials will be examined in the following branches: (a) English. Grammar and composition. (b) Geography. (c) Freehand Drawing or Modern or Ancient History. (d) Arithmetic. Fundamental rules; fractions; common and deci mal; denominate numbers, percentage; proportion; weights and measures, metric, apothecaries', and avoirdupois. (e) Algebra, to quadraties with one unknown quantity. (f) Latin. Elementary. The applicant will be expected to be able, to translate simple Latin sentences into English, and vice versa, and to analyze grammatical forms; or, read pharmaceutical Latin, interpreting its abbreviations. (g) Geometry. Elementary, including mensuration of solids. |