Pharmacists and pharmacy students...q. about historic pharmacy degrees

Factual Questions
1

When my parents sold their house, in the process of clearing it out we came across my grandfather’s undergraduate degree from 1909. This came from Kansas State University and the title of the degree was “Pharmaceutical Chemist”. The trouble is, though, that he was only 19 in 1909. So unless he got himself admitted to the University straight out of grade school, I have to assume that it must not have been a four-year program.

Does anyone know how much coursework went in a degree of that kind in 1909?

2

No, but FWIW, evidently then as now, pharmaceutical chemists were not pharmacists, but were the lab whiz kids who came up with the new drugs in the first place. Remember that back in 1909 they were still pretty much at the bunsen-burner stage of chemistry, not the designer-drug stage. There wasn’t as much knowledge to assimilate, so it could easily have been a two-year program.