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Caption: Booklet - Addresses from Inauguration of Noyes
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:?7 menl of the woi In f a d iry in chemistry or, as a matter of fact in any other science which does nol leave its impression upon the world, which d a QO1 help < to bring humanity nearer ideality, from both the social and industrial standpoint which do< - not direct ly raig the standard of civilization, is not v rthy of being oalh a discovery. Our universities and col] je as a whole do not at the pn >nt time fully appreciate this fact. Our universities are just learning that the scientist and technologist are not born, but made by half a life-time of hard study, and that the universities alone are able to offer this scientific training. The teaching of science in our universities, therefore, is paramount in the industrial and material development of our country. In taking up the teaching of chemistry in the United States, I can not, I think, lo better than to give a brief outline of the conditions under which chemistry has been taught in some of our state universities luring the past twenty-five years. It is a striking but lamentable fact that until the last few years the practical chemist of the United States was essentially a self-made man. lie had perhaps taken a course or two of chemistry in his university or college, but rarely had he studied chemistry from the applied standpoint. Therefore, after graduating he was compelled to 1, in as an apprentice and to spend several \ irs in Learning the things whioh should have b, n tan lit to him in his university course. University w rk twenty five years ago meant, in a large majority of state universities, the study of Latin, Greek, mathematics and hiatory, with a smattering
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