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HISTORICAL SKETCH xxviii SCHOOL OF PHARMACY

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expended in the purchase of this equipment. At the same time, French and German pharmacists sent valuable sets of books, American pharmacists and manufacturers contributed fixtures, glassware, drugs and cash, and the school started its sixth year with bright promise. The Alumni Association was organized in 1874 with F. M. Goodman, president and H. W. Buchman, secretary. In 1875 Dr. Trimble resigned and was succeeded by Professor Herod Dailey Garrison, a man of versatile talents, exceedingly popular with his students and colleagues and destined to exert a marked influence on the school. Dr. Garrison had been an army surgeon, a pharmacist, a drug manufacturer, a traveling lecturer and an expositor of popular science. He taught at various times all the subjects of the curriculum, ano was for a time the editor of the Pharmacist. In the same year Professor Babcock wa» appointed director of the newly founded Chicago Botanical Garden which occupied u part of what is now Washington Park. The abandonment of this project the ye^r following was a great blow to Babcock, who had devoted his time and energy, without compensation, to the building up of a garden which should be a credit to the city and the state. A short time later, failing health compelled him to give up his teaching and in 1877 he was succeeded by another well-known botanist, Professor Edson S. Bastin. For a decade the need of laws to regulate the practice of pharmacy had been fell; drafts of proposed laws.had been published in the Pharmacist and unsuccessful effort s had been made to secure the passage of such legislation. It was realized, howeve<\ that the support of the pharmacists of the entire state must be enlisted. Accordingly in 1880 the members of the college took an active part in organizing the Illinois Pharmaceutical Association, which, the following year, secured the passage of the first pharmacy law in Illinois. The project of a home for the School, where modern laboratories and better facilityr. for the growing classes would be provided, had long been discussed. The rooms in Rice's building had been vacated in 1876 for larger quarters occupying the upper floor of a two-story building at Wabash avenue and Jackson street, where a laboratory was installed. Four years later this space had proved inadequate and another move wns made, this time to the Art Institute building, then located at VanBuren street and Michigan avenue. It was now proposed that the society reincorporate as a stock company and by the sale of stock secure the funds necessary to erect a building. Another plan, advocated by some of the members, was^to organize a building association which would erect n building and lease, it to the society for school purposes. While these suggestions were under consideration, J. H. Clough, who owned a vacant. lot on South State street hear Polk street, offered to erect there a suitable building if the society would lease it for a term of years. The offer was accepted and the twentyfifth anniversary of the founding; of the College was signalized by the occupation of. the new building. The lecture hall with a seating capacity of six hundred was named Attfield Hall in honor of the distinguished English chemist whose efforts had resulted in the generous gifts to the College a decade before. Two large and well-equipped laboratories and an office and library as well as faculty rooms and store rooms were aln<> provided. Heretofore the lectures had been given in the evening and laboratory instruction was optional. This was now changed—lectures' were given during tinafternoon and laboratory work in the morning, both being obligatory; a graded system of instruction with a division of the course into junior and senior terms was established and the faculty was strengthened by the addition of Professor Oscar Oldberg and Dr. John H. Long. The two years following (1884-86) were most prosperous; the attendance grew rapidly, the equipment was extended, microscopes were purchased arid the courses developed so as to occupy two sessions of eighteen weeks each, with graduation at the end of this period. Then came dissension; some of the members disapproved of graduating students within one year; the adjustment of the salaries of the faculty caused friction; Professor Oldberg was elected dean and advocated changes in the course and in the requirements which were not favored by the majority of the trustees. A splitin the society followed: Messrs. Sargent, Dyche, Maynard and Patterson withdrew from the organization taking with them Professors Oldberg and Long, and a new college of pharmacy was organized which shortly became affiliated with Northwestern University. In the general unrest and excitement, the Pharmacist, which had in great measure fulfilled its ^mission, was merged into the Western Druggist. There followed a period of severe competition between the old school and the new, which was not, conducive w » the growth or the educational standards of either. Almost to a man, the alumni

« 'Mi. d to the support of the old school. A number of efforts were made to unite the • « «i institutions, but without avail. The faculty of the older school, recognizing the «.!• -ii11,ages which its competitor enjoyed through its University connections, proposed •«• < 11 intion with Lake Forest University. The trustees opposed this plan. Mr. Ebert 11 < !»<-udly was urgent in his plea that no university affiliation except with the state • •nix n.iity be considered. The faculty led by Professor Garrison was so strongly com«"«i i <d to the affiliation scheme that when the trustees rejected their plan, bitterness and -Ii .i(.infliction grew, until in 1890 Professors Garrison, Bastin, Stuart and Galloway •• iilidnw from the college. Garrison died soon afterward. Bastin and Stuart joined • i" l.ieulty of the Northwestern School of Pharmacy. Galloway qualified in medicine •••"I entered on the practice of that profession. Under discouraging circumstances 11" «'Hie.ers of the college strove to ''carry on." A new faculty was secured. C. S. N. II iillH-rg, already prominent as a writer on pharmaceutical topics, was assigned to rii Miu.-icy. F. S. Hereth, a well-known pharmaceutical chemist, took charge of the i'ii 1 ui.'iceutical laboratory. N. Gray Bartlett was recalled from his retirement to serve 1 « • >nior professor of chemistry. Dr. Albert G. Manns, a graduate of the College as • •- il .is of the University of Illinois and the University of Berlin, gave physics and • i" iliL-itive analysis. Dr. C. Gilbert Wheeler was junior professor of chemistry. Dr. M.invC C. Maisch, son of Professor John M. Maisch of Philadelphia, and who had • -«- iil.l v received his doctor's degree at Gottingen, was professor of botany and materia

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i >•-. Wheeler resigned in 1891, as did also Dr. Maisch. The latter was succeeded ••• I'm feasor F. M. Goodman, who was at once elected dean. The summer sessions were now discontinued, and the school year lengthened to •" • • M months. In 1892 a laboratory devoted to drill in the dispensing of prescriptions •• > installed. In 1893 Dr. Manns resigned to become chief chemist for a large packing • "•iH-i-ni, Dr. J. A. Wesener succeeded him but after serving for a year was replaced by N \. Puckner. The Columbian Exposition (1893) brought many visitors to the city and the college <i.j"ved its share of the general prosperity; the attendance again reached 225. An • •ii- testing exhibit consisting of preparations, drawings, and specimens made by the •its.huts was shown at the exposition and received an award of a medal and diploma. In IM,.)5 Professor Bartlett retired. In the preceding year the lease on the building -•««ii pied by the school had expired and had been renewed at an increased rental. The ini inei.'il conditions following the World's Fair were difficult but the officers and meml» i ul" the college again began to cast about for a better building and a more suitable I-., iimn. The project of forming a stock company was revived but met with much •'!'i'":ition. Mr. Ebert determined that the school should not be placed in a position •»h' ie it might become a privately-owned institution. He again advocated turning « • •. < T to the State University. Accordingly, overtures were made to President Draper « "i.d i.lio trustees of the University with the result that on May 1, 1896, the Chicago • ..Hi..,» of Pharmacy became a part of the University of Illinois. At the suggestion of • l" iIiiirmi an advisory board of pharmacists nominated by the Illinois Pharmaceutical \ ••' i.ition and appointed by the University was formed, and has served to keep the i-i" Mui.icists of the State in close touch with the institution. I Miring the first eight years of its fife as a part of the University the School received pport from the University or the State. But in 1904, the School was moved to i.•.!• •• ; md better quarters at Michigan avenue and Twelfth street (Roosevelt road) mid ..rveral thousand dollars was expended by the University for equipment. In 1907 «»• 1 M » opriation for the School of Pharmacy was asked by the University and granted by 1 i H" • 'lite Legislature. In 1904 Professor Puckner resigned and was succeeded by A. 11 ' ink. In 1910 Professor Hallberg died and C. M. Snow was appointed to the chair ••I I'li-mnacy. In 1912 Professor Goodman's failing health compelled his resignation. H. .MI:i succeeded by W. B. Day, who had been a member of the faculty as assistant, t». i M tor and professor since 1892. He became Dean in 1919. In 1916 the School M '.••n u.is lengthened to nine mouths and the entrance requirements were considerably

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i'n to this time the School had occupied rented quarters, but in December, 1915, »l" «' i > i vorsity purchased for the School the buildings at 701 to 707 South Wood street, -in. i. were remodeled, newly equipped and occupied by the School during the summer = > i H». The Northwestern University School of Pharmacy was merged with the i • "• • inifcy of Illinois School of Pharmacy in 1917, thus uniting the rivals of thirty-one • • .• . Professor M. A. Miner of the Northwestern Faculty was added to the faculty = i i'f School until his retirement in 1919. In 1920, Professor E. N. Gathercoal, who