Philadelphia College of Pharmacy - Graduate Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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In 1872 extensive additions had to be made for the accommodation of the students. The laboratory was turned over to the College on Gctober 15, 1872, by the Alumni Association. In 1873-4 the laboratory was also open two days per week from April to june inclusive. In 1876-7 the first evidence appears of the separation of the two departments, Chemistry and Pharmacy, a lesson on Pharmaceutical Manipulations being given one evening a week during the term by Professor Remington. In 1878-9, with the division of the class into juniors and seniors, Professor Remington assumed full charge of the pharmaceutical courses. With the erection of thellarge rear building in 1881, ample facilities wire provided for a chemical laboratory on the iirst fioor, and a p-harmaceutical labora- tory on the second fioor. From this point the development of the laboratories can be given separately. V ' THE CHEMICAL LABORATORY. The new laborato-ry in 1881, containing sixty tables and a small balance room to the south of the main ro-om, was open daily from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. from Qcto- ber to July. A With the session 1882-3 optional co-urses for both junior and senior classes were instituted. - I ' The examination in qualitative analysis as a requisite for graduation, opera- tive in 1883-4, made it imperative to increase the facilities of the laboratory, and twenty tables were arranged against the walls of the laboratory. In 1884-5 it became necessary to dividetthersenior class into two sections, meeting on Thursday and Friday afternoons, and as many as possible of the students who were not emplo-yed in stores were induced to take up individual instruction. during th-e morning hours. In 1886 a dwelling to theno-rth was fitted up as a laboratory for advanced chemical work. In 1887 classes in urinalysis were form-ed, continuing until 1898, when this branchwas embodied in the regular course. In 1892 the annex labo-ratory was razed and r-ebuilt, offering greater facili- ties to special students. A With the enforcement of the three yeans' course in 1895-6, the class course for first year ,students was discontinued. The second year students took up qualitative analysis, practically the same co-urse as was given the senior students under the two years' co-urse, the class being divided into two sections, meeting on Monday and Friday afternoons. The third year students took up quantitative analysis, including gravimetric and volumetric processes and Drug Assays, the 'class being at first divided into four, later into three sections. In 1898-9 gaso- metric-processes and urinalysis were added to- the quantitative course. To pro- vide for this quantitative work most of the tables arranged against the walls of the room were fitted with cases forthe necessary balances. .1 In 19oo it became necessary to provide twenty new tables for the accommoda- tion of the increased number of studentls, the l.aboratory now containing 117 tables : and during the past winter with 'every one of these tables in use there were just sufficient to accommodate the students. it 4 i i I ' 2 2

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QUIZZES. These were early recognized as valuable afljuncts to the lectures and were first conducted! by the Professors, who either appo-inted a special hour, or, what appears to have been the usual custom, conducted a review or quiz on the previous lecture for fifteen minutes before the regular lecture hour 3 these quizzes were especially for the benefit of the Senior students, although junior students had the privilege of attending them. As th-e classes increased rapidly after the removal of the college to its resent' I . . P 'location in 1868, the professors found themselves unable to attend to the quiz work, consequentl.y, in the latter part of the 7O,S, volunteer quiz masters of experi- ence were recognized by the committee on instruction. To illustrate the students' appreciation of quiz work, reference is made to the weekly quizzes of the Zeta Phi Society Corganized in 18545, which were first conducted by its members but later by quiz masters selected by the Society. The division of the class into Seniors and juniors in 1878 was followed in ISSO by quizzes for both classes authorized by the Alumni Association 3 this con- stituted the corner-stone of our present system and was followed in 1881 by the College Reviews conducted by the Assistants to the Professors. In 1886-7 the Alumni Quiz and College Reviews were combined under the business manage- ment of the Alumni Association and conducted by the Assistants to the Pro- fessors. -The quizzes until 1895-6 were optional, and to induce students to take them the Alumni Association offered free membership to those students taking thc Senior quiz, an arrangement co-ntinued after the consolidation of the quizzes, anfl which is still in force, although with the advent of the three years' course in 1895-6 full charge of the quizzes was assumed by the College and the quizzes made compulsory, this allo-wed the division of th-e class into sections for much more effective wo-rk. Prio-r to 1895-6 the class had been divided into sections meeting at 5 and 9.45 P. M., but this resulted in the early section being attended by a small number of students, the great majority taking the late quiz making it impossible to do effective work. In 1899-1900 a collection of official specimens was placed in the reading room so as to be accessible at all times to the students and to enable them to spend many otherwise wasted minutes to advantage. Up to IQO3-O4 quizzes were conducted only upon lecture subjects, in that year the quizzes were extended to the laboratory subjects Analytical Chemistry and Pharmacognosy. ' LABORATORY I NSTR U CTION. VV ith the organization of the Alumni Association Q1864j began a movement for the raising offunds for the equipment of a chemical and pharmaceutical laboratory. In 1870 a portion of the present chemical lecture room and a one- story skylight-ed annex to the east of this room were equipped as a laboratory. In 1870-I this was opened two days per week from 9 A. M. to 3 P., M. on Wednesdays for analytical chemistry, and on Fridays for pharmaceutical chemis- try, the course extending from October to March. In 1871-2 the laboratory was open daily from 9 A. M. to 2 P. M., and five months' daily practice in the laboratory was credited to the requirement of prac- tical experience necessary for graduation. 21

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TH E PHARMACEUTICAL LABORATORY. As has been stated, the instruction' in this department was given from 1870 to I88I in the chemical laboratory. ' In 1876-7 a course on Pharmaceutical Manipulations was given one evening per week. ' In 1877-8 an examination in this branch was required for graduation. In I878-U full charge of the pharmaceutical instruction was giv-en to Pro- fessor Remington. . The new laboratory erected in 1881 co-ntained 96 tables. l Instruction was given junior students one afternoon CThursdayj per week, senior students two afternoons fMonday and Wednesdayj per week, ' Exraminations were required of junior students for advanced standing, begin- ning with 1881-2. - -' 1 -The laboratory was opened in 1887-8 to students daily from 9 A. M. to I2 M for individual instruction. . With the building operations in 1892 an annex laboratory was made avail- able, giving 58 tables more. ' In 1894 it became necessary to put in the main laboratory 35 extra tables, With the three years' course attendance became obligatory in this- laboratory in the first and third years, the former class in two sections meeting on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, the latter class on Wednesday forenoon. In 1903-4 an optional course on dispensing was introduced and 40 of the tables fitted specially for the purpose. This in 1904-5 becam-e part of the supple- mentary third year course, the class for this being divided into two sectio-ns meeting on Monday and Wednesday mornings, and 18 a-dditional tables were appropriated. A A THE MICROSCOPICAL LABORATORY. This branch of instruction also originated with the Alumni Association com- mencing with the session of 1882-3. The Association controlled the instruction in this department until. 1894, when the College took charge of it and equipped a laboratory, taking in the -entire fourth fioor of the rear building, and capable of accommodating one hundred stud-ents at a time. . Junior and senior courses, using the simple and compound microscope re- spectively, were established with required examinations. ' With the three years, course in 1895-6 this laboratory work became compul- sory in the first and second years: the classes being divided into twosections and meeting on Tuesday and Thursday and Monday and Friday afternoons respecg tively. Spring courses covering th-e regular work were also given in 1896 and in 1897, with the advantage to the student of wo-rking with fresh specimens, which were not obtainable during the regular course. In 1899-1900 special optional courses were inaugurated in bacteriology. study of powdered foods and drugs, fungi and fungous diseases, morphology and physiology, and systematic botany. In the supplementary course of 1904-5, the course of the first and second years was supplemented in the third year by work selected from the above optional courses, the third year class being divided into two sections, meeting on Monday and Wednesday mornings. , Field wot k in botany, started as an adjunct to the lectures in materia medica and botany in 1867, is still continued during the Spring and Summer months. 23