THE MICHIGAN DAILY i I II ( _ __ _ __ _ __ _I___ _ __ _ 0 . 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. (Continued from page 5) 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,