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 an excellent free library, which is used by all classes of citizens. There are also manufacturing establishments, such as acid works, pharamaceutical 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 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 thirty to thirty-five 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 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 January.

THE FAIRCHILD SCHOLARSHIP.

"The Fairchild Scholarship is to be awarded on the basis of a competitive examination to candidates who are high school graduates and who have successfully finished their first year's work in a school or college of pharmacy or department of pharmacy of a university, member of the American Conference of Pharmaceutical Faculties. Each school, college or department of pharmacy is allowed and limited to two candidates."

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.

(f) Certificate of having completed satisfactorily the second year's course in a high school in this or other states.

3. Applicants who do not present any of the foregoing 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 decimal; denominate numbers, percentage; proportion; weights and measures, metric, apothecaries', and avoirdupois.

(e) Algebra, to quadratics 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.

The subject matter covered by the entrance examinations in the California College of Pharmacy is as follows:

English.-Reading and writing English correctly, giving attention to composition rather than to grammar, as we care little for the technical grammar. Text-book-California State Series Advanced Grammar.

Geography. Physical rather than political geography, giving attention to the physical features of the continents and their effects upon the climate, and consequently, upon the vegetable and the animal life. Textbook-California State Series Advanced Geography.

Drawing.-The ability to draw simple objects, as chair, book, box, leafy branch of a tree, or leaf, etc. No book required.

Arithmetic. The announcement speaks fully on this subject. Proportion, percentage, fractions, and metric as well as English systems are of special importance. Text-book-California State Series Advanced Arithmetic.

Algebra. The four fundamental operations, addition, substraction, multiplication and division, together with factoring and fractions. Textbook-Wentworth's Algebra.

Latin. The announcement speaks fully on this subject. mentary Latin book.

Any eleGeometry. The measurement of lines, angles, surfaces and solids. Usually given under the heading of "Mensuration." Text-book-California State Series Advanced Arithmetic, or any other Advanced Arithmetic.

A condition could be carried in any two of the above named subjects, said condition to be removed during the first year.

An applicant who fails to pass the entrance examination may be conditioned in not more than two subjects, in which he will be re-examined after three months. Should be again fail, his fees will be refunded, except that the sum of twenty-five dollars will be retained, which will be placed to his credit if he should return to the college and pay the balance of his fees within two years.

Applicants who desire to be matriculated without examination for the course leading to the degree of Graduate in Pharmacy may present their credentials to the dean at any time before the opening of the college on September 2, 1920. All others will present themselves for examination at the college on Thursday or Friday, August 26th or 27th, at 9 a. m.

Beginning with the college year 1922-23, the minimum requirement for admission to the two-year course leading to the degree of Graduate in Pharmacy will be graduation from an accredited high school of California or the educational equivalent thereof.

(Present requirement is completion of two years of high school work. Proposed change is in accordance with a resolution adopted by the American Conference of Pharmaceutical Faculties.)

B. FOR THE DEGREES OF PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMIST (PH.C) AND
BACHELOR OF PHARMACY (PHAR.B.)

Applicants will be matriculated who have received a degree in Letters or Science, or who have been matriculated in the University of California, or who present a diploma from an accredited high school or other institution whose credentials will be accepted for entrance to the College of Letters and Science of the University. Such diplomas or credentials should be presented to the Dean before August 5, 1920. Those who cannot present such credentials are required to take the entrance examinations at Berkeley. Applications by mail for examination permits should be sent to the Recorder of the Faculties at Berkeley. These permits must be secured in advance.

Matriculation examinations at Berkeley will be held from Thursday, August 5, to Thursday, August 10, 1920.

The examinations will be prepared and conducted by such officers as may be appointed by the departments.

COURSES OF INSTRUCTION, 1920-21

CHEMISTRY

FIRST YEAR

Inorganic and Didactic.

Professor GREEN.

The course of instruction begins with the phenomena of changes, physical and chemical. The lectures are followed by experiments by the student in the laboratory, illustrating the principles and facts spoken of.

Theory is considered when the student lays the foundation of simple chemical knowledge through experiments which he is taught to carry out. The construction of chemical formulae is then dwelt upon, and is followed by stoichiometry. In the course of study, the groups typified by the elements hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, chlorin, and carbon are described, with their compounds. Then follows the chemistry of the metals, with their oxides and salts. They are taken up in the order of their analytical classification, with this exception, that the alkalies and alkali earths are mentioned first. The chemistry of inorganic materia medica is made a feature.

Organic and Didactic.

SECOND YEAR

Professor GREEN.

This course in organic chemistry consists of a series of lectures, together with laboratory work. The subjects are the aliphatic hydrocarbons of the paraffin, olefine, and the acetylene series. Also the derivatives of the open-chain hydrocarbons, viz., the halogen derivatives, alcohols, ethers, sulphur derivatives, aldehyds, ketones, acids, esters, amins, amids, carbohydrates, carbonic acid, and cyanogen derivatives.

The course is continued so as to include the cyclic hydrocarbons and derivatives. These comprise the phenols, cresols, diatomic phenols, likewise the aromatic aldehyds, ketones, and acids; in fact, cyclic compounds of pharmaceutical interest claim the greatest attention. The organic bodies containing nitrogen are then considered, especially the alkaloids. This course includes the study and classification of the modern synthetic remedies.