ANNOUNCEMENT FOR 1924-25

The demand for properly qualified pharmacists was never so great as it is today and it is steadily increasing. Not only 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. Employers are looking for men who have a college education, and the supply is not equal to the demand. Furthermore, the national and state pure food and drug law calls 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. These laws have come to stay. They may be-probably will be-modified, but they will never be repealed, because the people demand pure drugs and medicines and that competent persons manufacture and dispense them.

There is a distinct advantage in studying pharmacy in a large city where the student can gain wide experience. 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 offered to the junior clerk, and he does not acquire much technique. The demands of trade and the somewhat factory-like method of doing the technical work of the laboratory and prescription counter are alike ill 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 ever for 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 Without its aid it is impossible for a young man to fit himself in a reasonable time to meet the demands that will be made upon him.

more than ever a necessity.

The California College of Pharmacy was established in 1872. For half a century it has been earnestly and honestly trying to help young people to acquire a scientific pharmaceutical education and thereby 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 many 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 on an eminence overlooking the City of San Francisco and Golden Gate Park, with the Pacific Ocean to the west. It 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, the forward space of which, consisting of a laboratory and stock rooms, is devoted to practical pharmacy. It comprises two general lecture halls, each capable of seating one hundred and fifty students; six laboratories-the Chemical, the Pharmaceutical, the Dispensing, the Pharmacognostical, the PostGraduate, and the Bacteriological; also a museum and library, besides offices, women's room, locker room and store rooms. The Dispensing Laboratory, together with the necessary stock rooms have been installed. It is the purpose of the college to thus strengthen the practical side of pharmacy by instruction and dispensing practice.

The subjects taught are chemistry, pharmacy, botany, materia medica, pharmacognosy, physiology, and toxicology. The teaching includes the technique of the microscope, spectroscope, 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 the laws of pharmacy, first aid, home and community hygiene, and commercial pharmacy.

Courses of Instruction and Degrees.-(a) The completion of the two years' course in pharmacy, based upon the foundation of satisfactory completion of four 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 present and to maintain an attendance of at least ninety per cent. (b) The degree of Pharmaceutical Chemist (Ph.C.) is awarded upon completion of a three-year professional course in pharmacy; that is, a

course based upon satisfactory completion of four years' standard high school preparation, or its equivalent, and including the completion of three years of collegiate pharmaceutical work.

(c) The degree of Bachelor of Pharmacy (Phar.B) is conferred upon completion of the four-year 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 medical practice.

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 get 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 requires him to complete his high school course 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 will be made whereby they may 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 charge is made for this special instruction.

Special Students.—The advantages of this college are offered to qualified persons who may wish to receive instruction and perform the laboratory work but do not wish to take the regular course, or to comply with all the conditions required to obtain a degree. Such persons, when accepted by the Dean, may enter as special students in any or all of the subjects taught by paying the fees for such courses as are taken, but may not be candidates for a degree.

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, academies, and extension courses of the University, it has many institutions for academic, scientific,

and technical instruction. Besides several large libraries and museums, supported by subscription, it has an excellent public library. There are also manufacturing establishments, such as acid works, pharmaceutical and serum laboratories, glass works, acid, soap, chemical, oil, and paint factories, etc., which the students are privileged to visit in company with the professors.

The Library Committee of the College of Pharmacy 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 the City of San Francisco, the Pacific Ocean, Golden Gate Park, the Golden Gate, and Mount Tamalpais.

Boarding and Lodging.-Board and lodging can be obtained in San Francisco for from forty to fifty dollars a month, and restaurants abound in which meals can be had from fifty cents upward. Single furnished rooms may be had, without board, 'for from ten to twenty-five dollars per month.

Employment. There are about five hundred 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 third-year 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 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

1. The minimum age at which applicants will be admitted is sixteen years. (While it is advisable that students shall have had one or two years' practical training in a drug store before entering the college, this is not required.)

2. Applicants will be accepted who bring any of the following credentials:

(a) Diplomas of graduation from accredited high schools or other accredited secondary schools in California or from schools of equal standing elsewhere. (A list of the accredited high schools of California may be obtained by addressing the Recorder of the Faculties, University of California, Berkeley, California.)

(b) Diplomas of graduation from approved normal schools of this state or other states or countries.

(c) Evidence of satisfactory standing in institutions of higher education, following graduation from high school or normal school.

(d) Certificates of matriculation and satisfactory standing in schools of pharmacy which are members of the American Conference of Pharmaceutical Faculties.

Students may be suspended or expelled for irregular attendance or objectionable conduct, in which case no fees will be refunded.

3. In the case of applicants who are unable to present credentials as above-evidence of satisfactory matriculation examinations in the preparatory subjects constituting a standard high school course of four years should be presented. The subjects to be presented should be arranged in advance with the Recorder of the Faculties at Berkeley; these subjects will depend upon the applicant's high school training, his age, and proposed course of study.

Examinations are held by the University in January and August of each year. For further information address the Recorder of the Faculties, Berkeley.

SUMMER SESSION

At present there is opportunity during the Summer Session for students to do systematic work in certain subjects, including elementary chemistry, physics, mathematics, drawing, general botany, and commercial subjects. Further information will be found in the Announcement of the Summer Sessions, published annually in January, to be obtained from the Dean of the Summer Sessions, 105 California Hall, Berkeley, California.