Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-13
NEW CREIGHTON SCHOOL OPEN
College of Pharmacy is Doing Busi-
ness as an Active Department
of the Great University,

The College OF Pharmacy is the latest ad-
dltlon to the group of colleges composing
the Creighton university. 1t has been in
successful operation four years, known as
the Omaha College of Pharmacy. 1t has
been steadily growing under the manage
ment of the present dean, Edmund Thorp,
NJ. S. Phi. G., who is a firm believer in hard,
thorough and practical work by the stu
dents.
In the main class room, which also con-
talns the deans office, the walls are lined
with shelves containing the official drugs
recognized in the United States phaTma-
copoeia. These are for the use Of the
students who are expected to familiariZe
themselves with them and be able to iden-
tify them. Crude drugs, such as roots
barks and flowers are provided and the
student is required to reduce them to prac-
| tical use, and become acquainted with their
physical properties and their drug value
Each student is required during his course
| to manufacture from crude materials a
| set OF one hundred samples fit to be used
| by any pharmaceutical chemist. A prize
| of considerable value is awarded for the
| best set Of samples
The study of botany Of physics chemis-
| try and the laboratory work of the Junior
year is done in the splendidIy equipped
| laboratories Of the Dental college on the
third floor of the building.
The studies in quanttative analysis, phar-
macy, materia medica and the manufac-
ture of chemicals by the members OF the
senior year are accomplished on the ground
floor which contains a pharmaceutical lab
oratory to accommodate sixty students.
Each is supplied with locker and drawers,
gas and water, and with set Of working
materials.
In the Junior year there are FIVE courses
followed and each course in turn is finished
before another is begun. First, qualita-
tive analysis, pharmacy and Latin, Cphar-
maceutical and medically Second: physics
Latin and pharmacy. Third: organic and
inorganic chemistry Fourth physiology
and pharmaceutical chemistry and prob
lens, Fifth: experimental chemistry and
qualitative analytical chemistry. In tho
senior year the courses are: First manu-.
featuring chemistry and dispensing Sec
ond: quantitative chemical analysis, drug
assaying physiological chemistry uranal
ysis and toxicology. Third materlo
medica and therapeutics and the fourth il
pharmacy. Beside these courses, there are
classes in commercial training, special lee
lures in materia medica, anaethetics ant
first aid In emergencies bacteriology, toxi
cology and pharmaceutical Jurisprudence.
THE average age Of our students is q ;
says Dean Thorp, "a time Of life. I'believt
when a man is best fitted for hard menta
study. We have two young women thl,
year in the senior class, and seven in tht
Junior. There are more women this yea
in the Creighton College of Pharmacy thar
in any other college Of pharmacy In tn,
United States They take TO pharmaceutical
work and are very successful in It. They
are delicate OF touch in experimental worl
and possess accurate and analytical minds
Prospects for this year are very en-
coura ging. On opening day we had fifty
one students and that means about two
thirds Of our fun attendance, but with tn,
new superior facilities il would not be sur
prlsing If we reached the hundred mari
this year"