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

  • Edward Kremers
Date:
1934
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Credit: The old Northwest territory and pharmaceutical education / [Edward Kremers]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of Illinois rose to the occasion and gave their state university the support which it needed to step into the very forefront of state univer¬ sities. Hence it was not a mere farmer’s college with which the Chi¬ cago College of Pharmacy became affiliated, first in name only, later in reality. If so far I have emphasized pharmaceutical education by the state in opposition to that by an apothecaries’ guild or old line college, it remains to be pointed out that pharmaceutical education by the state is not cut out in accordance with the same pattern everywhere. Restrict¬ ing ourselves again to the states carved out of the old Northwest Terri¬ tory, we find that in Michigan the school of pharmacy is located on the University campus, not at Lansing, the home of the State Agricnl- tural College. Both Ohio and Wisconsin have no separate agricultural colleges. In Indiana, pharmacy is not taught at Bloomington, the seat of the State University, but at Lafayette, the home of Purdue University, the Indiana land-grant college. Lastly, in Illinois, the School of Phar¬ macy is not associated geographically with either Letters and Science, or Engineering and Agriculture at Urbana, but forms part of the state’s Medical Center in Chicago. From the point of view of organization, four of these schools have separate faculty organizations; the Wisconsin course constitutes only a subdivision of the College of Letters and Science. Though on the college campus, Purdue and Ohio have separate buildings, and Michigan and Wisconsin are housed together with the chemistry departments of their respective universities. Illinois, a hun¬ dred miles and more away from the Urbana campus, occupies several buildings of the so-called Medical Center in Chicago. It must become apparent, therefore, that the mere surroundings o! these schools will tend to variations in the curricula and that the courses offered by the several states will not all be alike. This difference has been emphasized by the attitudes of the men who were the intellectual founders. The differences between Michigan and Wisconsin reflected, as has already been pointed out, the differences in the mental attitudes of Prescott and Power. In this connection, I should not fail to point to the differences engendered by the general attitude of the pharmacists of the state, more particularly as this manifested itself in the actions of our state associations and later of the alumni of the several institu¬ tions concerned.
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