University of Washington - Tyee Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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Coll ege of PlouiiHj Lditrl for an Addition to thr Gardi ' ns IF a tew men do not feel more soli- citous for the aches and pains of their fellows, all the pills and powders henceforth may conform to the fads and fancies of the feminine r- awHL .T ,H Y B MK ' •I ' lZ— l concocters — for half of the druK H Hj - - 4 ■J r S i mixers down in the t ' hem Shack are I H f . j E fli H I Kirls. Charles Willis Johnson, dean of the college, ascribes this phe- nomenal fact to the very unusual opportunities in pharmaceutical vo- cations offered at the present time. Whatever the cause, the fact remains, there are twenty-six wo- men in this college, ferreting out the time-old secrets, bitter and sweet, liquid, solid, and gas. And what more deadly combination than a woman with a secret? The College of Pharmacy was organized in 1S94 for the purpose of offering to young men and women an opportunity to become well-trained practical pharmacists. Not content with turning out mere practical pharmacists, Dean Johnson and Arthur W. Linton have this year introduced into the department a four-year combined scientifie and business course- salesmanship, advertising, business law and banking— which Is to fit the taker for a responsible position in either retail or wholesale pharmacy. The triangle is now complete — woman, a secret and a head. Death stalks just four years hence, friends, in 1923! All this fatal experimentation on .soups, soaps and sudden suicides takes place in the Chem Shack, alias Bagley Hall. On the second floor, where preside Dean Johnson and Mr. Linton, are the labs for drug assay, food analysis and prescription practice. In spite of their distance from the campus hub, the druggists manage to be heard now and then at bomb-making season, and have even been known to break into bold red type in the middle of a calm night. Bagley Hall is three tiers tall, fire- proof, color and all, just peeping over the green rise as one looks south from Denny Hall. There, in acid eaten garb, the ' alf and ' alfs juggle fragile tubes of poison: with calm fortitude they analyze deadly fumes and tamp the high explo- sives. Scorched eyelashes and ridged fingers they scarcely notice. In fact the only thing that does create an anxious frown is a quizz, and it is said that some can even maintain composure at the appear- ance of a blue book. In a model prescription pharm- acy toil the curers or killers of man. How do they know what plants are poison and which are PAGE 14

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Man-h April .Mav .Tun 19 — Women ' s ensemble choi-us I ' eeital. 19— Y. W. C. A. eleetioii. 21-25 — Examinations. 22 — Graduation exereises. 25 — Winter quarter ends. SPRING quartp:r 31 — Registration. 1 — Registration. 2 — Classes begin. 5 — Junior Girls vaudevill 7 — Assembly for Mrs. Lucinda Prince. 11 — Soph Glee. 12 — County Fair. 18 — Junior Jinx. 21— The Debutante. 23 — Nominating assembly. 25 — Campus Day. 25 — Varsity nine defeats Pullman. 26 — Varsity nine defeats Pullnian. 30 — Election. 3 — Crew race with Stanford and California 10— Cadet ball. 24 — Junior Day. 30 — Homecoming Day. 31 — Homecoming Da.v. 10 — Exams begin. 14 — Class Day and President ' s i-eception. 15 — Uaccalaureatt Sunday. 16 — Comnu ' iicenn-nt and Alumni Dav. JMM Ajini :■-.. r.ir- PAGE 13

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Pharmacy good for pills and soap? Samples of bottled, dried, crude and refined, druga, commercial and biological products by the hundreds line the shelves of the materia medica room. And then just below Bagley Hall and the Jim Hill statue are the real live specimens, medicinal plants, growing in an artistic and harmless looking garden, supervised and managed by Mr. James Thompson, specialist from the Bureau of Plant Industry of tlie United States De- partment of Agriculture. More than five acres does this garden cover with its digitalis field, its peppermint, and a host of other plants only a pharmacist would dare attempt to remember. The aim of this intensive work on the part of the government and the uni- versity is to cultivate medicinal plants on a commercial scale. Quantities of digitalis were produced in this garden last year, and shipped for war uses. A new field house and a co-operative green house have also sprung up since Air. Thompson ' s arrival. So important has been the work of the College of Pharmacy in the recent war that research and experimentation have been quickened, a greater interest has been created commrcially, and many more men and women are entering the field. Of tlie many who left the department to enter the service, practically all went into some branch of the medical department, where their invaluable practical knowledge made them doubly useful. Great as was their need in time of war, still greater is that need in time of peace, and the rapid expansion of the College of Pharmacy is proof of that realization. Shimjh- Kiln w ill ' k 1 ;.( uf AnijiUra Planln PAGE 16