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Caption: Dedication - New Chemistry Building
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(Reprinted from the Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Vol 8, No. 6, page 523. June. 1916.) THE DEDICATION OF THE NEW CHEMISTRY BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS The new Chemistry Building of the University of Illinois was formally dedicated on the 19th of April. The exercises were held in the Auditorium and the program was as follows: HONORABLE EDWARD F . D U N N E , GOVERNOR OP ILLINOIS, Presiding SCRIPTURE READING AND PRAYER, R E V . GEORGE P. HOSTER, D.D., Rector of Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Champaign Music Chemistry, Columbia University "Illinois'* ADDRESS PRESIDENT EDMUND JANES JAMES ADDRESS, " T H E TRAINING OF CHEMISTS," ALEXANDER SMITH, Professor of ADDRESS, " R E S E A R C H AS A NATIONAL D U T Y , " W I L L I S RODNEY W H I T N E Y , Music Member of the U S. Naval Board, Director of the Research Laboratory of the General Electric Company "America" The addresses by President James, Professor Smith, and Dr. Whitney are printed in full below, and are followed by an illustrated description of the building, prepared especially for us by Dr. B.. S. Hopkins of t h e Chemistry Department of the University.— [EDITOR.] INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT EDMUND JANES JAMES The dedication of a great and expensive building, erected for university purposes, always raises the question whether a university is not spending an undue amount of its funds upon the mere piling up of brick and stone. The well-worn statement that a satisfactory college is a log with a man at one end and a boy at the other was the beginning, perhaps, of the serious criticisms made upon many of our American institutions that they were in the habit of spending too much money on brick and mortar, and too little on flesh and blood. You will remember that Johns Hopkins University started its beneficent and epochmaking work in the field of American education in a very inferior and in some respects, for its purposes, poorly adapted set of buildings, and that it has been pointed out many times as an illustration of how t o do things worth while in the field of university education, as compared with some other institutions in the country which spend large sums of money upon t h e erection of great buildings and have •comparatively little left for equipment, running expenses, and t h e payment of the salaries of the university professors* (1)
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