On motion, duly seconded and carried, the ballot of the Conference was cast by the Secretary for the above named candidates and they were duly declared elected. The following members of the Executive Committee were then duly nominated from the floor and elected by ballot: James H. Beal, George W. Lattimer, James F. Finneran, R. C. Stofer, Dr. A. R. L. Dohme, Fred K. Fernald. Mr. F. E. Holliday then read the report of the Board of Control of the National Wholesale Druggists' Association on the report of the Committee on Prevention of Adulteration, and, after considerable discussion, it was moved, seconded, put to vote and carried that the Conference approve of the report and give its support to the National Wholesale Druggists Association's efforts to secure publicity and uniformity of standards by which the Department of Agriculture determines what drugs shall be admitted to the country under the Food and Drugs Act, and what shall not; and to secure appeal to the courts. To this end Dr. A. R. L. Dohme, Mr. C. Mahlon Kline and Mr. Eugene C. Brokmeyer were appointed a special committee. The special committee on Interpretation and Enforcement of Food and Drug Laws, reported progress, and on motion duly seconded and carried, was continued with instructions to report at the next annual session of the Conference. The Chairman of this Special Committee announced that a meeting of the Committee would be held at the new Raleigh Hotel, Washington, D. C., Wednesday, January 31, at 10 o'clock A. M. The Special Committee appointed at the last annual meeting of the Conference to report on Section 8 of the "Minimum Requirements with which Proprietary Remedies Should Comply in Order to Render Them Safe for Direct Sale to the General Public," as adopted by the American Pharmaceutical Association then reported and recommended that Section 8 be approved with certain eliminations leaving it to read as follows: (8) Incurable Diseases. The preparation must not be advertised or recommended as a cure for diseases or conditions which are generally recognized as incurable by the simple administration of drugs.. Report accepted, recommendation adopted and Committee discharged. Mr. Crounse reported that he had seen Congressman Randall, author of H. R. 18986 to exclude alcoholic liquor advertising from the mails, and that Mr. Randall had accepted the amendment proposed at the morning session by the Conference, and thanked the Conference for its assistance. Mr. Charles J. Lynn, moved that the Executive Committee be instructed to secure a regulation effecting the keeping of proper records of Harrison Act drugs exported, provided the Committee did not find that such regulation already existed. Seconded and carried. Mr. Charles J. Lynn moved the matter of the Conference joining the United States Chamber of Commerce be referred to the Executive Committee with power to act. Seconded and carried. On motion the Conference then adjourned to meet at the call of the President. CHARLES M. WOODRUFF, Secretary. THE NEW BUILDING FOR THE MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF PHARMACY Located in the Heart of the Educational and Scientific Section of Boston OF GENERAL INTEREST Educational Endowments for Pharmacy. Acknowledging the educational worth of all the wonderful temples, sculptures and other works of art through which the ancients have impressed their great characters upon the world, we confess to a liking for the style of monument left in more recent times by those who wish their names and achievements to live after them. The tendency in this country seems to be to give all memorials of whatever nature an utilitarian form, notably the Lincoln Highway. One of the most popular methods of perpetuating one's name is to give materially for the endowment of a college or hospital or some institution, the services of which will reach the masses. The success of our best known universities is largely due to the endowments they have received, but how often has the lack of pharmaceutical college endow ments been deplored. Many large fortunes have been made through the traffic in drug store merchandise, but with one exception there are no pharmaceutical endowments beyond the Fairchild and Plaut scholarships. The Massachusetts College of Pharmacy received a gift of something like $250,000, from Mr. George Robert White, President of the Potter Drug & Chemical Corporation, of Boston, manufacturers of the Cuticura preparations. Through this very generous gift the college is proceeding with the erection of a $100,000 building at the corner of Longwood Avenue and Worthington Street, in the Roxbury district of Boston. The site comprises 75000 square feet, located in the center of scientific and educational institutions, among which are the Harvard Medical and Dental Schools, the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, the Children's Hospital, the proposed Lyingin Hospital, the Angell Memorial Hospital, the High School of Commerce, Simmons College, the Boston Normal School group, and other institutions which unite in forming one of the greatest educational, benevolent and charitable centers in the world. The College has furnished us with the following detailed description: The exterior of the new building will be Renaissance in character, with an imposing central Ionic portico of six columns of Doyle's quarry limestone, each twentyeight feet in height, approached by a monumental flight of granite steps. The lower story will be entirely constructed of heavy rusticated limestone and will carry the two upper stories of red brick laid in broad joints with cornices, window frames, etc., of limestone. The front wall will be set back eighty feet from the line of Longwood Avenue, giving an opportunity for an approach by a fine esplanade paved with large slabs of stone. The interior arrangement is the outcome of some three or four years' study of the College's requirements made by the trustees and the teaching staff, in conjunction conjunction with the architects, and the result of this careful study appears in the striking simplicity of the floor plan. plan. Briefly, the ground floor is devoted. mainly to the two great laboratories, the Pharmacy Laboratory, 65 x 62 feet, and the Chemistry Laboratory, 62 x 58 feet, each 15 feet in height and having accommodations for about 400 students. In connection with these are the balance room, stock rooms, offices for the respective instructors and a general room for men students. The main floor similarly contains the two lecture rooms for pharmacy and chemistry respectively, each with accommodations for 300 students at a sitting, with adjacent offices for the professors, and in addition a main rotunda, vestibule and staircase with floor of honed limestone and walls of Roman travertine, in which are placed tablets of purple Lepanto marble for inscriptions. Opening from this corridor this corridor are the General office, with the Dean's office adjoining, the Library, a homelike room suited for comfortable study and free from any institutional appearance, the Trustees' Room, paneled to the ceiling in quartered oak with architraves and chimney piece of verde antique marble, and large and pleasant quarters for the young women students. Check rooms, store rooms, public telephone booth and all other accessories are to be found on this floor. The main staircase leads to the George Robert White Hall, a beautiful assembly room with a seating capacity for 500, finished and paneled in chestnut, with a handsome stucco ceiling and a great stone chimney piece. At the head of the stairs will be a capacious foyer for the convenience of audiences during intermissions. In connection with George Robert White Hall there are provided a buffet, a room for storing seats when it is desired to clear the floor, ante room facilities for illustrations by films, etc. The upper floor also contains the Materia Medica and Bacteriological Laboratories, an Alumni Room, three class rooms and ample storage facilities. Concrete exit stairways in towers run from top to bottom of the building. The entire construction is fireproof, with steel window sashes and terra cotta and steel floor construction. The equipment includes an air washer, a fan ventilating system with thermostatic control, complete telephone system, indirect lighting, and the latest appliances of every sort. Massachusetts College of Pharmacy is also to be congratulated on the election. of Dean Theodore J. Bradley to the Third Vice Presidency of the American Pharmaceutical Association, to serve for the year 1917-18. The position of Dean of upwards of 300 students is no sinecure, but the varied experience and large responsibilities Professor Bradley has carried since assuming his first teaching position gives proof that he is fully equal to the demands of this large student body, which will undoubtedly increase rapidly with the added facilities which the new college building will afford. Theodore James Bradley was born in Albany, N. Y., in 1874. At the age of 16 years he began his apprenticeship to the drug business, working in the stores of Louis Sautter and Alfred B. Huested at Albany, for a period of five years. He was registered by examination in 1894 and graduated from the Albany College of Pharmacy in 1895 with the degree of THEO. J. BRADLEY, Boston, Mass., During this same period he held many other educational positions which has given him an unusually wide experience in teaching. Among these positions he was Professor of Chemistry at the Albany Medical College for ten years; teacher of science and mathematics in a well known boy's military academy for twelve years; for ten years he was chemist in the laboratories of the State Health and Agricultural Departments, covering a large variety of work in analytical chemistry; was also special examiner in chemistry for the New York State. Civil Service Commission, etc. At present in addition to the deanship and the vice presidency of the A. Ph. A., before mentioned, he is a member of the National Committee on the Pharmaceu tical Syllabus and since 1914 has been its secretary-treasurer, and is also the vice president of the American Conference of Pharmaceutical Faculties. * Charles Holzhauer. In choosing the man who is to preside over its affairs for a twelvemonth, an association having the prestige of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the same time bestows upon the candidate no small honor. It is fitting that Mr. Charles Holzhauer, of Newark, N. J., should be chosen to serve as the next A. Ph. A. President, for he has faithfully upheld the tenets of that organization since 1873. Not only has he been a consistent member, actively helping in association affairs, but he has used his efforts to advance the profession of pharmacy in all directions. He was instrumental in establishing the first Board of Pharmacy of New Jersey and was elected its first President. He has been one of the leading members of the New Jersey Pharmaceutical Association, serving as president in 1881. Of A. Ph. A. offices, he was elected VicePresident in 1905, Local Secretary, 1916, and has been active in committee and section work. Many years after graduation, his alma mater, the New York College of Pharmacy, called him as one of her trustees. His business activities are not wholly confined to pharmaceutical enterprises, as he has large interests in manufacturing industries in his home city, serving as director in several companies. Mr. Holzhauer's successful pharmaceutical career is a striking example of the pharmacist who early unites with his professional associations, gaining a broad viewpoint through contact with others interested in the same work. Mr. Holzhauer is of German nativity. He was born at Cassel in 1848, the youngest of a large family. His parents brought him to this country while but a small child. He was orphaned at the age of 12 and from that time was thrown largely on his own resources. In 1862 he took employment in the drug store of Dr. Marsh in Newark. The store was later sold and the following |