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Caption: Booklet - Addresses from Inauguration of Noyes
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L> r, tlii Hold of economics. It is a trite fact now ilmt the industrial and commercial Supremacy of G r e a t B r i t a i n is threat.-nod most d a n g e r o u s l y by t h e wonderful growth 4 of manufacturing in Germany. Englishmen, Doting this in the face of the fact that they themselves are rather favored in the matter of natural resources and wealth, are attributing the £reat strength of their competitors almost entirely to their splendidly trained army of chemists. A significant fact is that this onward march of the German industries is characterized by much of the same fearlessness and supreme confidence of victory as was its march on the unprepared armies of France forty years ago; and for much the same reason—again, it is splendidly organized— O) anized in the matter of trained scientists, chiefly chemists; its industrial adversary is not—as yet. Chemistry, in some form or other, enters into the production md manufacture of almost all the great articl 3 of commerce—from the raising of wheat and corn on soils scientifically ai •/<'<! and j rtilized, to the making of I and all iron materials, from the preparation of brilliant dyes to that of common N-ather. from the drugs of our sick days to the food products of our daily life—all can be d lopod best under the direction or with the help of able chemists, and, what is jiially i m p o r t a n t , all, without exception, an capable of vast improvement under the if < ; id* the chemist, trained \o ob.,.,••. clo 'I; to reason accurately, to think originally, to experiment rigorously— trained, in •• word, i > do research work, • < (iVnnnn urnvensil i. and polytechnic
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