Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-12
HOWARD BUILDING
BEING RENOVATED
Third and Fourth Floors viii
Be Used by College
of Pharmacy.

The third and fourth floors of the
building previously occupied by the
Howard University School of Medicine
will be thoroughly renovated for the
College OF Pharmacy The most modern
equipment is to be installed and every
facility provided to make possible q
thorough and comprehensive course of
study. Much of the work already has
been done and the remainder will be
completed during the Summer.
new laboratory has been constructed
and equipped. The equipment consists
Of laboratory tables provided with run
ming water, gas, electricity and COM
pressed air: 40 new microscopes and
$50 new drug containers, all installed
in wall cases. An electric mixer for
crude drugs and an electric centrifuge
have also been installed
The old anatomical laboratory is to
be remodeled and fitted up for research
work. The pharmacology laboratory in
the new medical building is to be
equipped during the Summer so as to
provide accommodation for pharmacy
students. A similar arrangement will
be made in physiology.
Graduates Wen Distributed.
A check-up on the pharmacy grad
yates since 1919 shows that out Of the
Isl graduates 101 have taken State
board examinations in % different
States. OF this number "a passed in
their first attempt and others were
successful in their second effort. Seven
teen failed in their examinations, four
OF whom passed in other States. Two
Young women of last years class led
the examinations in South Carolina.
OF the "a graduates who passed the
board, So are engaged in the drug bust
ness, teaching. conducting clinical
laboratories and a United States Gov
eminent inspector. SiXty-two are To-
Gated in Southern States, while SO set
tied In the North and West.
During the Summer two members
OF the faculty of the College of Phar-
macy will do graduate work DR.. D. H.
Smith will study at Cornell University
and DIR. A. E. Green will attend the
University of Michigan.
The department of engineering at
Howard University had as visitors last
week four of its graduates who now are
engineers in New York City. They
were Chester p Aston, Randolph r.
Ragsdale and Clyde r. Brannon. all of
the class of 1921, and Franklin B. Log
wood Of the class of 1926 The visi-
tors discussed the many problems en-
countered in modern subway construc-
IlOll, IN WHICH WORK Cney are engaged.
DR.. Mordecai w. Johnson, president
of Howard, will deliver the commence
ment address at Tuskegee Institute
May 80.
Fraternity Members Get Certificates.
DR.. James Hart, associate professor
of political science at Johns Hopkins
University was the honor's day speaker
at Howard last Wednesday. at which
time newly elected members to Kappa
Mn honor society were presented Ger
t4ficateS
The new members were DR.. Charles
H. Wesley. DR.. Eva B. Dykes. Mrs.
Myrtle Phillips and James Porter,
members of the faculty; Harry GIN
Smith. Matte Murrel. Alice Eighmie,
j. Francis Price, Glenwood Jones,
Norma Parks, Florence Graves, Willis
ton Lotion, Marion Bianchi. Elworth
Evans, Pansy Baltimore, Ida Ball,
Lillian Dabney and Myrtle Brady.
Following the exercises in Andrew
Rankin Chapel the Kappa Mu Society
gave a luncheon in honor of the guest
speaker. new members and the Phi
Beta Kappa members of the university
faculty.