University of Washington - Tyee Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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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

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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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PAGE 16 School Of L aw Assault ami battrry. l)rokiMi jaw. We ' re tlic lioys of the Vashin;;-1( ii law. Wl ' ] knew it Well, when till- ciii-tairi I ' osr on till ' lirst iioiniiiatiiiji- assembly of tin- ycai ' . that the School of Law had foiue back to life. It was a mei e handful of students sit- ting about the wielders of the bow that produced mournful sounds on the bass viol, but that handful represented the mighty laws reasserting themselves as the cream of the school. It brought us back to the days when such an assembly was incomplete without the bass drum in the hands of Ed Frank- lin seconding every nomination or punctuating each sentence. It was a real rejuvenation, too. It happened that the greater percentage of those who were fortunate enough to get an early discharge from the servic- consisted of lawyers, wiiich was ac- counted for. perhaps, by their talking ability. The new home on the top floor of Commerce Hall awaited them. While there were only twelve students enrolled in the department during the war, conditions were almost normal at the beginning of the third quarter of 1919. Picking up the old tradition of senior law canes is accredited to thr mm that came back after their term of service. The mustaches that usually went with these sticks were not forthcoming, however, and it is rumored that natuif would not have it thus with this class. At any rate, the senior law feels lost without his cane, and the mahogany stick with the wiiite initials ami the let- ters Senior Law, 1919, is his most prized possession. There were more women in the School of Law in 191!) than at any jirevious time. Almost two dozen members of the female sex aspired to become up- holders of our legal .statutes, and indications point to an increase next yeai. The department organizations became active and the Washington Law Asso- ciation began a brilliant career. The honor Iratiinities I ' hi Delta Phi. Phi Alpha Delta ami Phi Delta Delta also resumed tiieir activity. Ldici iiii Thrrc on Commrrcr Strps