The old Northwest territory and pharmaceutical education / [Edward Kremers].

  • Edward Kremers
Date:
1934
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    encyclopedias and textbooks, but were based on laboratory experimen¬ tation. The other state to which I desire to draw your attention for a few moments is Illinois, the last of the states of the old Northwest to come into the fold, as it were. The Chicago College of Pharmacy had been organized in 1859. The Civil War had prevented a healthy develop¬ ment and the great fire of 1871 had given it a temporary setback. Like other Chicago institutions it recovered after the fire but, unlike the city at large, made but little progress. Chicago had developed into the metropolis of the Great Lakes country. Not only was it the largest port for graiir—it was an important drug center. The traveling repre¬ sentatives of its wholesale drug firms made propaganda for the Chicago College of Pharmacy and secured positions as clerks for the appren¬ tices of small towns throughout the Northwest who wanted to sup¬ plement their meagre apprenticeship by drug store experience in a large city. When as late as 1899 the Chicago delegation to the American Pharmaceutical Association met at one of the railway sta¬ tions, Prof. Hallberg remarked that the Chicago College of Pharmacy was going to have a large class that fall. When asked how he could know in advance, his reply was that in a Sunday paper he had counted seventy want ads for clerks by Chicago druggists. The prospective student came to Chicago not only because of the larger drug store experience to be gained, but because he could earn his way through college while clerking at the same time. However, the Chicago College was not the only beneficiary of this advantageous situation. In 1886 several dissatisfied members of the faculty had seceded and established a rival “school” in connection with Northwestern University. However, the school was not placed on the Evanston campus, but in the very heart of the business district ol Chicago. The nature of the affiliation is well characterized by the agreement that a druggists’ board of trustees was to have charge ol the curriculum whereas the Lmiversity controlled the finances. With the secession of the Illinois School of Pharmacy as an affilia¬ tion of Northwestern University, the financial situation of the older Chicago College of Pharmacy did not prosper. Failing an endowment, affiliation with a larger institution was sought. To become a part ol Lake Forest University was not only proposed but actually planned.