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

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FINE ARTS DEPARTMENT The curriculum of the College has been so de- signed to offer the profes- sional pharmacist not only an education in pure science courses, but also as wide a cultural background in liberal arts courses as is possible. Thus, not limiting the scope of education along one track. Today the graduate in his establishment as a profes- sional man must come in contact wiih all types of people. His knowledge must contain a basic training for his understanding of worldly problems. The University has endeavored to provide this education in the form of five liberal arts Courses required for the B. S. in Pharmacy. When we neophyte phar- macists entered the Phar- macy School in September 1938, everything was looked upon with a serious attitude — this lasted two weeks. The third week saw us hiding the desk from the instructor and entering the C.C class twenty minutes lale via the windows! The vast set of notes that we took in this course was found to be the best ever written — they made the most heat in the furnace down in the basement. The following term the Board of Trustees elected to keep the course another year. When C.C. mid-year rolled around back in ' 38, crib sheets were starting to come into style. The outcome of the exam was that Wozniak was the only one receiving a mark lower than ninety-five percent. So good was Sol Leder- man ' s sheet, that Luthin threw away his notes and forever after used Sol ' s crib sheet. The course in English turned out to be a bleeder — commonly called hemo- pheliac or strictly 86. Every Friday we were required to write a five hundred word essay on some topic of the day in the newspapers. Everything was run- ning along swell until we picked on Boner ' s daily periodical. However, the course wasn ' t too tough and even Klein and Schein made it after only one make-up exam. The other course taken during the freshman year was German. This was a very comprehensive — we mean expensive course in that we were required

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Now stop fooling around and see if you know what the incompatability is in this prescription. No — no, this colorless green solution is not the result oi a dirty cork. Don ' t you fellows ever use your heads? Blackman, — leave the room! All right Waldgreen — you can follow him. Now to get back to this colorless green solution. Here ' s the reaction. The Antimony and Potassium Tartrate is split up by the alkaline Rhubarb and Soda to form Antimony Sodate and Potassium Rhubarbate. The former settles out on top and the latter precipitate settles to the bottom. The color of the center solution is caused by the diffusion of the light rays from the electric bulb which intersperse every third particle and cause a phenomenon known as Frohlich ' s Syndrome. It is very simple and if you had read your assignment you would have had had no diffic ulty. I don ' t like to bawl you men out at every session we have. It is a waste of precious time. Starting next month we will have bawlings out twice a month because we are a little behind in our work. Now just a word about your pills. The National Pill Manufacturers Associa- tion has just set down new standards for pills. Uncoated pills must rebound two feet when dropped from a height of twelve feet at standard temperature and pressure. Chocolate coated pills must rebound the same distance but the effect upon hitting the surface must be that of a sharp staccato and not a dull thud. Pills of a soft consistency when shot against a wall of solid granite with a standard putty blower must stick to the wall for three minutes. After which time the said pill must show an indentation of not less than two millimeters caused by the pressure of the blow. Get back to your desks now . . . AND DON ' T THROW ANY LABELS IN THE SINK! Seriously, we are indebted to Dr. Brown and Mr. Miale for excellent train- ing in dispensing pharmacy. The course was extremely well planned and covered every conceivable aspect of what the pharmaceutical graduate should know about dispensing pharmacy. ■ The combination of these pharmacy courses has certainly found its mark, for we feel confident that our pharmaceutical education will thoroughly en- able us to cope with all future pharmacy problems. Sitting.- Dr. L. N. Brown, Prof. C. P. Wimmer, Prof. H. M. Carter, Prof. F. D. Lascoff Standing: Mr. T. P. Miale, Mr. H. J. Amsterdam

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to buy three textbooks and two pamphlets. Our instructor, Sigfried Muller was a quiet chap with an accent as heavy as heavy magnesium carbonate. His daily five minute quiz was a race by all to see who could copy the fastest in the class. Pete Britsakis flunked all these quizzes because he sat between Salvucci and Hooi. Salvucci never came until nine-thirty A.M. and Hooi wrote in Chinese. All in all, the course was liked by all, that is, all who attended class. When the freshmen came back in Sept. 1939 as sophomores, we hit the toughest year in school. Physics knocked the stuff out of everybody. With Professor Farwell, physics prof., yelling about the two humped exam curve and Mr. Liberman begging us to hand in our analytical samples, we became a little groggy. The class attended two physics lectures weekly at Pupin labs. The lecture hall was divided in two sections. The pharmacists in the marihuana section and the lawyers, engineers, pre-meds in the other. J. Tarrington Buckley was the most brilliant student in the class ... he consistently got over 38% in his exams. In the lab section of the course we carried out experiments described in the lectures. We then wrote up the experiments and handed them in to be checked. When Peckerman handed in his report it looked like the Rosetta Stone and Schein ' s appeared to be an Ethiopian translation. Freitag ' s and Coller ' s were usually duplicates. This course ended in havoc for many. After two or three tries Peckerman, Coller and Mancuso finally made the grade. The final liberal arts course taken was Math. Our class received instruction under Mr. Sole who has since left the College. Instruction is now given by Mr. Levi. We started off with trigonometry and ended up with calculus. Probabil- ities were discussed in the course and this started Sternberg off on Little Joe. Since then many more athletes have joined in the game of African Dominoes. Through the very capable teaching of Mr. Sole a Phi Beta Kappa man, we all passed the MU exam. Upon completion of the liberal arts courses offered, this class seriously be- lieves them to be of great value for future use in our practice of pharmacy. We consider ourselves fortunate to have been tutored under so capable and learned a group of men. Mr. R. H. Luthin. Mr. J. L. Harlan, Mr. A. H. Ingenhuett, Mr. H. Levi