CHAPTER NINE
 PROFESSIONAL COLLEGES ADDED

The College of Pharmacy
 "There is quite as much education and true learning in an
 analysis of an ear of corn as in the analysis of a complex sentence;
 ability to analyze clover and alfalfa roots savors of quite as much
 culture as does the study of Latin and Greek roots."
 -0. H. BENSON.

 EVERAL years before the establishment of the School
 of Pharmacy, which later became the College of
 Pharmacy, in the University of Florida, different
 druggists of the state had pointed out its desira-
bility and several urged that the Florida State Pharmaceutical
Association and the Florida State Board of Pharmacy sponsor
its cause. In 1922 a definite, concerted and official action
was taken. In his presidential address of that year, Mr. W.
G. Perry, speaking for the Florida State Pharmaceutical Asso-
ciation, said:
 "The day of the private institution for teaching pharmacy,
valuable as it once was, has gone by. Laboratory equipment,
and the modern accessories of teaching now needed, mean the
establishment of a plant which only the state or a richly en-
dowed institution can finance.
 "So we should work for our University School of
Pharmacy. Reconstruction of educational methods since the
cessation of the world war has given a new impetus to the
study of pharmacy, and the ablest thinkers in the calling are
unanimous in the belief that higher entrance requirements and
more scientific training are necessary to meet the demand for
well-trained pharmacists."
 Dr. Townes R. Leigh, head of the Department of Chemis-
try, had previously been invited to that convention and re-
quested to give an address on the desirability of a College of
Pharmacy at the University of Florida. This address was
prepared with the approval of President Murphree, an outline
of which was furnished to him in advance of its delivery be-