sional students except such as the special courses
require. The work in pharmacy grew naturally with the Department of
Chemistry. Following its establishment in 1868, the course eventually
grew into a separate Department, which became independent in 1876. The
school prospered under the wise and scholarly administration of its
first Dean, Dr. Albert B. Prescott, and it was soon recognized as one of
the best in the country. The early entrance requirements were only a
good knowledge of the English language, but soon a high school course
became requisite. The curriculum, which at first consisted of two years'
work, was eventually lengthened to three years in 1917-18, leading to
the degree of Ph.C; while for a regular four years' course a B.S. in
Pharmacy is granted.

Upon the death of Dr. Prescott in 1905, Dr. Julius O. Schlotterbeck,
'91, succeeded him as Dean of the College. Dr. Schlotterbeck died in
1917, and Professor Alviso B. Stevens, '75_p_, became Dean until his
retirement in 1919.

The inauguration of a Department of Homeopathy in the University, which,
as has been noted, did not come without a struggle, was finally effected
in 1875; though only after long opposition from the Medical Faculty and
the regular medical profession throughout the State. The first Faculty,
which was appointed soon after the Legislature finally authorized the
establishment of the School, was composed of Dr. Samuel A. Jones,
Pennsylvania Homeopathic Medical College, '61, of Englewood, N.J., who
was Dean and Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, and Dr. John
C. Morgan, Pennsylvania Medical College, '52, who took the chair of
Theory and Practice. Dr. Jones soon became one of the most interesting
and stimulating figures in the life of the University. Small and spare
in physique, he possessed an extraordinarily keen mind and an interest
in literature and learning far beyond the limits of his profession. His
library, which was particularly rich in material on Thoreau and Carlyle,
became upon his death in 1912 one of the valuable acquisitions of the
University Library.

The Faculty grew slowly as new students came, though the Department
never became as large as the older school, the record enrolment being 79
in 1892. The Department eventually found that the original quarters in
one of the two professorial residences on the north side of the Campus,
to which a long wing had been added at the rear, were inadequate, and in
1900 the presen