Dentistry is given in the special announcement of the School. Address the Director, Dr. A. H. Peck, 92 State street, Chicago, Ill., or the Registrar of the University, Urbana, Ill. THE SCHOOL OF PHARMACY (For Faculty of School of Pharmacy, see p. 28.) HISTORY The Chicago College of Pharmacy is a corporation which was founded by prominent pharmacists of Chicago and vicinity in 1859 for the purpose of advancing the practice of pharmacy. One of the first steps taken was the establishment of a school of pharmacy. At that time there was no school of the kind west of the Alleghany Mountains. Members and friends contributed money, books, apparatus, and supplies; teachers were secured and a course of lectures was instituted in November, 1859. The first class, of but two students, was graduated in 1861. The war caused a suspension of the teaching, and the school was not reopened until 1870. The great fire, in 1871, destroyed the equipment, but pharmacists throughout Europe and America extended help to the institution, furnishing an excellent library and outfit of apparatus, which became the nucleus of the present complete equipment. In 1872 the instruction was resumed for the second time and has since continued without interruption. "The Pharmacist," a monthly journal published by the College, from 1866 until 1886, did much to advance the interests of pharmacy in the West. In 1880 the members and graduates of the College took an active part in the formation of the Illinois Pharmaceutical Association, which, in the following year, secured the passage of the pharmacy law. The twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the College was signalized by the completion and occupation of a building in which ample space for many years' growth was provided. The better accommodations gave an impulse to better work. Up to this time instruction had been given mainly by means of lectures, laboratory work being entirely optional. Laboratory courses in pharmacy, chemistry, and vegetable histology were now made obligatory. A laboratory devoted entirely to prescription compounding was established in 1892. The excellence of the equipment in this department won for the College a medal and diploma at the World's Columbian Exposition. The College was formally united with the University May 1, 1896, and is now conducted as the technical "School of Pharmacy of the University of Illinois." In the management of the School the Trustees and officers of the University have the assistance of an advisory board of pharmacists elected by the registered pharmacists of the state through the Illinois Pharmaceutical Association. The School is situated near the business center of Chicago. In addition to the larger amphitheater, known as "Attfield Hall," which has a seating capacity of three hundred and fifty, the building occupied has a smaller hall especially fitted for lectures and demonstrations in chemistry, and capable of seating one hundred and fifty persons. The chemical and pharmaceutical laboratories, as well as the microscopical laboratory and the dispensing laboratory, are commodious and well appointed. The courses of instruction, covering two terms of seven months each, extending from September to April, inclusive, afford opportunities for a thorough technical training, such as is necessary for the successful practice of pharmacy. The subjects taught are pharmacy, chemistry, botany, physiology, and materia medica. The system of teaching includes lectures, demonstrations, recitations, written and oral examinations, as well as individual instruction in actual work in operative and dis pensing pharmacy, analytical chemistry, use of the compound microscope, etc. Much time is devoted to laboratory practice. REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION Applicants for admission must be at least sixteen years of age and must furnish evidence of their ability to prosecute the work of the course successfully. The preliminary education should be equivalent to that required for entrance to a good high school. Students who have pursued courses of study in other colleges of pharmacy, or at the University, will be given credit for such portions of their work as are equivalent to the work required by this School. REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION The candidate for the degree of graduate in pharmacy must be twenty-one years of age, must have had four years' practical experience in pharmacy, including the period of attendance at School, and must have attended two full courses of instruction, the first of which may have been in some other reputable college or school of pharmacy. He must have attended regularly the laboratory and lecture courses of this School, must pass the examinations, and must not have been absent more than five times during the term from either laboratory exercises or lectures in any department. The candidate for the degree of graduate in pharmacy, who presents himself for final examination before he has attained the age or practical experience required, will, if successful, receive a certificate of having finished the course, and will be awarded his diploma when the requirements of age and experience are complied with. Persons competent to fulfill the general requirements of admission to the University may be granted credit upon the |