Columbia University College of Pharmacy - Apothekan Yearbook (New York, NY)

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PHARMACY Upon the Pharmacy Department falls the task of preparing the seniors for their last hurdle— the State Board Examination. To ac- complish this the department has divided its work into three divi- sions—manufacturing, dispensing, and theoretical. In the manufacturing laboratory the students are required to prepare many of the official chemicals and gelenicals. This year the work was performed in the large rather than the small labs, and the change enabled the students to work and breathe at the same time. PROF. C. P. W ' IMMER Also, the practice of making students hand in notebooks at the end or the year was discarded; reports were written as the preparations were completed and these reports were the subjects of individual criticism by Professor Carter. The dispensing laboratory aims to turn out a student who can properly compound a maximum number of prescriptions in a minimum amount of time. It s cardinal principle is practice makes perfect and it envisions a pharmacist who is accurate, neat and prompt. When this division gets through with the student even the most formidable pill mass offers him little difficulty. The theoretical courses offered are exceedingly important— and dull. It is rather unfortunate that a man as ingenious as Professor Wimmer must confine his talents to leaching the dullest of these, pharmaceutical jurisprudence and theory of pharmacy. We hesitate to speculate as to the added difficulties there would have been had the lectures been given by a less competent man. — - J I ' U- — H i fli A P g raT PP ' f 9 - jfc J| fc; ■ 1 ' «te»» L. — ?„ . m € , M . w 18

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lecturers . . . Cut out the undertones ... let me do the talking . . . my door is always open to any student . . . Dr. H. Randolph Halsey . . . the man who was born with a corn-cob in his mouth ... as a zoologist, worms, parmecia and hydra are tops ... an authority on the love life of a night blooming earthworm . . . Professor Harry Taub . . . our pal and favorite professor ... a regular fellow if ever there was one ... 1 remember when it happened to me once ... he ' s got a story complex . . . you know what kind of stories . . . Professor Franchon Hart . . . the only woman in the faculty ... an authority on bacteriology ... a wonderful research worker. Instructors: Mr. P. ... the people s choice for Clark Taylor . . . chyme marches on (with due respects to Morton Slavin) . . . Mr. Victor Lewitus . . . Vic ... he is always on the run in business and in fun . . . sometimes gets an awful inferiority com- plex . . . thinks everybody else is inferior to him ... Mr. Samuel Zweig ... an ambitious young instructor who is going places . . . loves to ask you the botanical origin of drugs with psychical effects ... Mr. Bernard L. Blumberg ... a practical bacteriologist . . . still remembers that he was once a student. Lab. Assistants: Edward Kohen . . . not Cohen . . . why don ' t you go on a diet and quit eating our hearts out? . . . James Wood ... a wee bit of Scotch . . . quiet . . . very nice . . . always willing to oblige. Miscellaneous: Minnie ... an alley cat . . . probably obtained from the species Felina Minniepuss . . . not more than 8% foreign organic matter attached ... an efficient mouse catcher . . . Mickey . . . her husband . . . very- jealous . . . the solution of the garbage problem.

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Professor Lascoff . . . His many years of practical experience make him well equipped to lecture on economics ... has a sense of humor. Professor Dorfman . Requires that every pill made in the laboratory bounce ... In his one-hour-a-weelc Latin class, he insists on covering three years ' work in one, and wonders wriy students cannot master declensions, verbs, and vocabulary. Professor Brown . . . Since attend- ance is compulsory. Professor Brown always breaks the bouse record— still waiting for Lou Mannas emulsion to crack. Professor Wimmf.r . . . Lectures on all those pbarm- acy subjects requiring only memory . . . and. remarkably enough, remembers even-thing himself . . . regardless of bells, dismisses bis classes when they cry We ' ve bad enougb! Professor Carter . . . Affected several innovations on pharmacy teaching procedure. Cordial and respected ... the handsomest of the professors. Mr. Amsterdam . . . cleared up tbe misunderstanding of the storage of whisky by stating that tbe reason is not prohibition as many people believe . . . favorite pastime is leading our basketball team. Mr. Miale ... a favorite instructor . . . seriously believes tbat students should have a chance to pass every course . . . always ready to help you suspend a lotion. Mr. Blum ... a man of few words, his vocabulary consisting mainly of No more labels or weighing papers today. and What are you looking for? . . . Tbat material is on your desk! ' Mr. Jock Williamson ' ... tbe man wbo replaces all of your broken beakers or percolators . . . when you sign on the dotted line.