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Caption: Booklet - Addresses from Inauguration of Noyes
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• . ' its faculty, but, unlike Clark. ; < in fa > Btudent body. By one gi atefToi atoni ., gf • ollcge well as a univ.-rsil its founding stimulated the development of the graduate schools in Hi older oniyersities of the east which wen- also both iL. leges and graduate schools; the \ tern universities have more slowly strengthened their graduate ^ »rk oi have just started to give graduate instruction, that is, to do real university work. With the de\ lopment of our universities, in the last fifteen years of eager growth, chemistry in this country has given us the work of men like Richards, of Harvard, a second Stas on atomic weights, and in this same subject we still have Morley and also have W. A. Noyes, now of Illinois; in organic chemistry^ we have Nef of Chicago, with great new ideas powerfully influencing work abroad as well as here, Remsen and his students continuing the work of former years, and again, Noyes; in physical chemistry we have A. A. Noyes in Boston, Franklin at 1. land Stanford, Bancroft, Hulett, our enthusiastic friend Kahlenberg at Wisconsin fighting nobly for a lost cause; in inorganic chemistry, Edgar F . Smith, Morse and again Remsen. There are about as many names again which could be mentioned and then our list of really prominent research men in chemistry at American universities would be exhausted 1 am not including technical research men. With the older men, there are bareh twenty men in all, directing strictly or, mal research work in our fcnerienn U U 1 verities, work involving n e * ideas as well * the preparation of new compound and
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