Caption: Booklet - Addresses from Inauguration of Noyes
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*J of modem langruaff • Seldom did a on! vrersity ourrioulum include Hi stud of soienoe exeepl B Par aa It repn at I O simple didactic trainin Appli I ch istry was QOI considered worthy of beii • placed in the coll< i curriculum, 1 distinctly remember my fa I Impn ;SiOUfl of chemistry, as offered in "M< Of OUT v state universities. Wo studiod neral chemistry by the old did itic methods. Our firsl lesson was to >mmit to m < the atomic weights of the common el menl ([magine a. man in the Onh ity of llliQois spending the first week of Ins neral chemistry course in committing to memory the atomic weights.) We had no lal ratory experiments except th i rm 1 b\ the proi\ *or, and these were i >rformed in such a way that the underlying trutl were entirely lost to the stud ut In fact the only experiments in this whole i irse which left an impression were those with h y d r in m the elas n and ox^ -\ which some of the students pre] I for the prof' 'i- while he \\ s ut ' the lecture room. And 1 think I am not doi the kindly profest p an injusti ehen 1 say I firmly believe Hint th \| riments 1 were tin first to h>;i\ lastii o] upon him. Not. ;i W ord in that whol ••"in • in chemistry « aid whieh i ed to tho mind the student tl that chemistry was i p anj h < than to i simply dabbled u th lal 'lone not B a word u.i si a eom id to the mind r th,fact thai Hi md prim p] *ei tudyinn w, the I , „ | "l »«"• ra ,t Industrial ,
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