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Caption: Booklet - Addresses from Inauguration of Noyes
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Illinc • me ' this i 1, H is:. >ilit; ' in eh( deeid I short je of men of pro^ and direc* in W d w in well ask why th' should 1< > ai 1 what i we liave f < such a liti "l in this country, Tu dug only for a moment to chemical ch ag it wai h( • twent;. five yean ago. the better to under and pn ent conditions, we find at that only h and there in our universities a man of note carrying on systematic investigations in chemistry B onsen at Johns Hopkins, the Gibbses at Y le and Harvard, Cooke, Hill, Jackson Morley. I og, Michael and YTard, only a handful of men devoting their lives to chemical res* rch as an article of faith. Universitic at that time did not demand that their chemistry professors should be investigators, and they were, as a rule, instead, t< hnical expert analytical chemists—"borough, capable, honest men, but engaged in as extensive and as profitable commercial work as the head of any comae 1 laboratory. As a matt r of fact, we h; I then practically only one real uniV( devoted to graduate v. >rk as diatin <\\> ; from college work, and t h a t was ,j hi Hopkins, our pioneer American uniei although, as stated, graduate and r-.- rch w<»rk were also carried on to some extent ai Harvard, Yale and a t w other r pit ». The i» itesl reeenl impetus to all \) ),, r research, including chemistry, ;n • i n this country, in my opinion, from I), founding of ( ' h r k University with reSearch as its ehief and almost exclusive field and from the f.-umlin only two years |;if,.r of |hf> r n i \ i-.sity of Chiea i with its trong g r a d u a t e sehool I m m : not only in
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