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

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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.

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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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CULTURAL DEPARTMENT THE Cultural Department proposes to give the pharmacy student the instruction that will make him a more interesting and responsive person. Though it is not an indigenous part of the college and several of the courses in the past were of poor quality, the department has been enlarged and perfected, and is d estined to play an increasingly important role in the molding of a more competent pharmacist. 1 he English courses attempt to instruct the students in the fundamentals of struc- ture and style in both practical and imaginative writing. The course on contemporary literature aims at encouraging intelligent reading through the study ana criticism of contemporary essays, dramas, novels and poetry. Up to the present the only foreign language offered was German. The course consisted of two years work and strove to give the student a reading knowledge of scientific German. This year Erench is also given. As for mathematics, Mr. Sole conducts during the winter session, a course in plane trigonometry: during the spring term analytic geometry and an introduction to differential calculus are considered. The class oj 58 departs with memories o Mr. Bedford . . . He owes his real distinction to his vivacity and wit. at no time lacking. His force and brilliancy, gaiety and dignity are typical of an early New Eng- land environment. Eminent as its instructor in history, the class regrets that he is not still with them. Mr. MacJimsey . . . Intellectual curiosity may yet guide him to complete his varied ambitions, the highest of which is an etymology of words. A fastidious, competent in- structor as well as a witty conversationalist, he was not immune to the romantic desires inspired by intensive reading of the adventurous Don Juan.