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I ITHEKKO here i day to ibrate the in illation of one of our pr uinenl Amman in\ >(i atom aa dii d r I ehemi k in the CJni ersity of Qlinoi \\< should not do justice to the (* aaion if our thoughts did not turn to the ofi m ining oi this event Por the future of ohemi \\ r arch in our universiti* 1 I ve thought to de vote the few minul i, during whieh I shall have the pleasure of addn sing 3 u, most usefully to the consideration of some conditions affecting the future of chemical research in our Ameri in univei it: Before this audience I n > make no d lengthy plea o( justifl ition for the demand

foi research work in chemistry in our uni

versities, either on the round of economic

considerations or from th itand] int of air highest ideals, ns expp 1 in the Struggle of the human race for enli liteument on itself. i\s Prof* r Theodore W. Richards recently lid in his inaugural

lecture at the University

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All the 1 unfold exj riei I th< human mil are intimately 1 on tted with the pi >< n the which we ill material, enlh I bj that whit we ill energy; and the ultima! il [phering th* ^ mj r> ol life win de] 1 j\• luch on the understand in f th e as up 1 the ud o* * « mind H -if. Thus modern ohemi uld 1 v I no1 only bi to n & the u l,i * ^ its ohvioui and multl kributl hui upyli nl 1 U n 1 taportant place in the 1 lm ol h ll< .1 ap< ulation,

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