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Weighing laboratory.

New labs in temporary building number 6.

An old pharmacy lecture room.

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Pharmacy ...
By introducing the four-year undergraduate coursc, the
University of Wisconsin opened another goal of U. S. phar-
maceutical education, the granting of Ph.D.'s by universi-
ties, to pharmacists doing graduate work on scientific phar-
maceutical problems.
In 1899 and 1900 the University of Wisconsin granted
the first Master of Science degrees in pharmacy in the
United States. In 1902 the first Doctor of Philosophy degree
was awarded. It is therefore believed that the University of
Wisconsin thereby became the first American university to
award its highest degree to a graduate student pursuing
his major work in pharmacy.
Under Dr. Kremer's direction, understanding instead of
memorizing was made the principal goal of education. This
approach was unique at that time in both pharmaceutical
and scientific education in this country. It was also during
Dr. Kremer's administration that the school was moved to
the two top floors of the Chemistry Building, the place which
it still occupies.
Another "first" scored by the University School of Phar-
macy was the medical plant garden started in 1908. In 1913
this was expanded by the act of the state legislature, be-
coming the "Pharmaceutical Experiment Station." This was
the first of its kind in America connected with the pharmacy
department of a state university. A series of investigations
on the cultivation of medicinal plants and on their chemical