THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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. CATHERINE REIGHARD
alias Maid, attendant to the multi-
farious wants of the greedy 0'Money"
east.
L. L. LANGWORTHY
alals Tabouret, an upholsterer, who
also has his weather eye open for
"Money."
G. F. McGRAW
who takes the part of Lake, a servant.
LOUISE ROBSON
alias Georgina, who is pretty and ae-
complished, but her father's worldli-
ness has spoilt her nature.
Miss Robson will debut in student
dramatics this year. Only from re-
hearsals can we judge her merit, but
if that be a fair test, there will be no
fault with the work of Miss Robson,
whom the Comedy club elected as the
fit person for one of the most difficult
and at the same time, cleverest of
the parts of "Money."
which these antecedent players have
done in giving to "Money" the popu-
larity which it justly deserves. The
costuming will follow that of the first
players, the staging and scenic effects,
under the direction of Mr. Bert St.
John of Detroit, will be made to cor-
respond with the original. Elaborate
scenic effects will be furnished in part
by the Whitney Company of Detroit,
and in part they are being designed
by local artists especially for the
Comedy club.
One of the =most active agencies for
making anything that is dramatic,
"go" around here, is the personality
of Mr. Bert St. John the popular De
troiter whose able coaching and know-
ledge of dramatic technique, and stage
management puts the professional
finish to any amateur production which
he directs. In particular, has he been
behind the Comedy club this year. His
counsel and suggestions have meant
improvement at each rehearsal for the
past three weeks.
MARTIN BRIGGS
alias Stout, a parvenu- nouveau riche
type of the bourgeois who suddenly
finds himself in the upper circle, and
who talks an. dreams political econ-
omy.
Mr. Briggs is another of the finds
of the Comedy club this year. His is
an individuality in interpretations
which past experience in dramatic
entertainments has taught him.
LAWRENCE CLAYTON
alais Graves, who has pessimistic ten-
dencies, and who claims that if he had
been bred a hatter, little boys would
come into the world without heads.
As a master in German dramatics,I
Mr. Clayton is known to us, from his
excellent interpretation of the lead-
ing part in the German comedy last
year. Rumor has it that in rehearsals
he is the "big find" of the Comedy
club this year.
HAROLD PILGRIM
alais Grab, a publisher of poems,
whose obsequiousness to -the newly
rich Evelyn increases directly as the
weiglt of the latter's pocket book.
"MONEY" BELONGS TO HIGH
ANCIENT ORDER OF COMIC.
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production of "Money" which will be
put before the local public, all effort
will have been put upon reproducing
as faithfully. as possible the work
of Pharmacy
PRACTICE OF PHARMACY WAS.
KNOWN TO THE ANCIENTS
The practice of pharmacy dates back
to four or five thousand years before
Christ, at which time it was closely
related to the religion and supersti-
tions of the age. And it is surprising
that even in the present enlightened
century we find some of those same
superstitions handed down. It was
customary then to wear amulets to
guard against the evil spirits which
were supposed to infest, one when ill;
today some wear beads to cure goitre,
and a bag of asafoetida around the
neck to keep away dyphtheria. These
are nothing more than the relics of
six thousand years ago.
Later came the alchemist who was
an outgrowth of the pharmacist if not
also a pharmacist. The alchemist was
looking for the philosophers' stone, a
thing capable of turning baser metals
into gold; and the pharmacist' was
looking for the Elixir of Life, a thing
to renew the youth and make it pos-
sible for one to live forever. There
are men today who are looking for
this Elixir of Life and there are those
who claim to have it and do sell it, too.
As pharmacy became more of a sci-
ence it drew away from its supersti-
tions and its alchemy and took up the
compilation of facts upon which it is
based. In this search for knowledge
many of the most important discov-
eries have been made, an example of
which is the discovery of glycerine by
Scheele in 1779 and the discovery of
morphine by Serturner in 1805.
As the science became older it ex-
panded and branched out from the
retail drug business into other chan-
nels. The first and most logical was
pharmaceutical education, for as
pharmacy advanced it became neces-
sary to train men to fill the constant-
ly growing number of positions in the
retail business. And there are at the
present time a number of states which
require that before one can become
a pharmacist he must have attended
a recognized school of pharmacy. Of
course these schools must have com-
petent teachers and there is an ever
growing, demand for men of proper
training and education to enter this
particular field.
Next came the pharmaceutical man-
ufacturers to supply the demand of
the retail pharmacist for certain ma-
terials and preparations which in-
volved such expensive operations as to
be almost prohibitive on the small
scale. With the beginning of pharma-
ceutical manufacturing began a de-
mand for men to fill important posi-
tions, a demand which is apparently
never satisfied and is becoming more
and more a demand for men wit).
greater education in pharmacy and
chemistry. Men can hardly expect
to fill these positions after having
completed a two year course and so
it is that more students are taking
four, five and seven year courses in
pharmacy, as they do in some of the
other professions.
During the growth of these various
divisions of the retail business, the re-
tail business itself has not been at a
standstill by any means. In most ev-
ery city will be found two types of
stores. The one catering only to the
needs of physicians and the filling of
prescriptions, the other carrying many
side lines; nevertheless in both should
be men of intelligence. People have a
right to expect that when they make
a purchase in a drug store, the person
Gal 2-SUPP Brown
waiting on them can talk knowingly
of the value and use of the article,
be it only a cake of soap. The hours
of work are being shortened, there is
a greater demand for college gradu-
ates and the salary is increasing.
L1GAL REQUIREMENTS
TO PRACTICE PHARMACY.
Registered Pharmacists must be
twenty-one -years of age,:must have
had four years' practical , experience
in pharmaceutical work in the place
where drugs, medicines and poisons
are dispensed and retailed, and pre-
scriptions compounded, and must pre-
sent evidence that they have com-
pleted tenth grade work in the public
schools, or its equivalent. The time
spent at a college is deducted from
the four years' experience required
provided the work amounts to not less
than fifteen hours of laboratory work
and not less than ten hours of other
instruction weekly, during two full
collegoate years of nine months each.
Registered druggists, must be eigh-
teen years of age, must have had two
years' practical experience of the
same nature as above, and must pre-
sent evidence of having completed
tenth grade studies in the public
schools or its equivalent. Not more
than one year of attendance at a
school of pharmacy of the grade stated
above is deducted from the practical
experience required of registered drug-
gists. The full time spent at this
School of Pharmacy is, however, de-
ducted from the experience required.
This provision enables graduates of
the two year course to secure regis-
tered druggists license at once. All
candidates must pass the examination
of the Board of Pharmacy.
When this state law was framed,
the School of Pharmacy was given the
opportunity of inserting a clause
which would have permitted its gradu-
ates to register without examination,
but Dr. Prescott declined, stating that
if our graduates could not pass the
examination we wanted to know it.
,ou,t
The Aristolochite.
The Aristolochite is an honorary so-
ciety. It is purely a student organiza-
tion, but to become a member the can-
didate must have the approval of the
faculty of the School of. Pharmacy.
HIGH POSITIONS
HELD BY ALUMNI
The influence which this school has
had on pharmaceutical education may
be best illustrated by noting the posi-
tions held by some of its graduates,
as shown by the following list:
The following are deans or direc-
tors of colleges and schools of phar-
macy: E. R. Miller, Ph.C., B.S., De-
partment of Pharmacy, Alabama Poly-
technic Institute; Homer C. Wash-
burn, Ph.C., B.S., School of Pharmacy,
Mercer University, Ga.; Charles B.
Jordan, Ph.C., B.S., M.S., School of
Pharmacy, Purdue University, La-
fayette, Ind.; Charles C. Sherrard,
Ph.C., Tri-State College of Pharmacy,
Angela, O.; A. W. Linton, Ph.G., B.S.,
School of Pharmacy, Valpariso Uni-
versity, Ind.; Wilbur J. Teatus, Ph.C.,
M.S. (Mt. Union) College of Phar-
macy, State University of. Iowa; Wil-
bur F. Jackman, Ph.C., B.S., Depart-
ment of Pharmacy, University of
Maine; Ernest R. Crandall, Ph.C.,
Kansas City College of Pharmacy; C.
H. Stocking, Ph.C., B.S., School of
Pharmacy, Oklahoma University;
Charles O. Hill, M.S., Ph.C., Depart-
ment of Pharmacy, University of Ten-
nesee; Charles W. Johnson, Ph.C.,
B.S., Ph.D., College of Pharmacy, Uni-
versity of Washington; Raphael del
Valle, Ph.C., B.S., College of Phar-
macy, Puerto Rico.
The fact that this school of phar-
macy prepares its students for re-
sponsible positions in life may be
seen from the positions held by those
who have graduated during the past
ten years.
Retail pharmacists, 108; in phar-
maceutical journalism, 2; teachers of
pharmacy and kindred subjects, 23;
in manufacturing houses as chem-
ists, 16; as manufacturing pharma-
cists, 8; chemists in state laboratories,-
8; chemists in government labora-
tories, 5; city chemists, 2; chemists
in agricultural experiment stations,
2; chemists in other industries, 7,