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Caption: Book - History of the University (Nevins)
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184 THE UNIVERSITY FINDS ITSELF He was responsible for the founding in 1897 of the Chemical Water Survey, served as its director, lectured assiduously, carried out research work, bore the chief administrative burden in the department, and planned the present Chemistry Building and supervised its erection. His expert knowledge made him the chief chemical witness in a protracted suit between St. Louis and Chicago following the opening of the Chicago Drainage Canal. The faithful carrying of this heavy burden induced a physical weakness which cut short his career at the very moment when new facilities had given him great new advantages. But with his department organized, housed, and equipped, and the teaching force greatly strengthened, it was left ready to undertake the broad and successful work in instruction and research which it has since carried on. In the college of literature and arts the most notable development lay in the improvement and arrangement of the work in economics so that it furnished a virtual department of commerce; and in the establishment of a department of education. For some years after Dr. Kinley took charge of a separate department in the study which Gregory had delighted to teach, he found himself much overburdened. He had first offered eight courses, and then eleven, and even after becoming dean he continued single-handed to teach most of them. In the last three years of the century came DxgrN. A. Weston and Dr. M. B. Hammond, and this permitted a considerable expansion^ Finally Dean Kinley prevailed upon the Trustees to ask the Legislature for a small appropriation to open a school of commerce, under the title of Courses of Training for Business, and this was announced in 1902, with special library and two new instructors. It was stated that studies could be n &
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