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Caption: Booklet - Addresses from Inauguration of Noyes
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word which Lmpr< sed upon us tin- fact that we were studying the vi>vy sub tances from which OUT own bodies are made, from which the whole u n i v e r s e is mad. riot a word H< mine* the possibilities of the new Q hemistry; not a word which would indicate thai there ^ is anything more in the \ whole realm of chemistry than that found within the Covers of a small elementary text. ]\Iy surprise was all the greater when a few years later, I sat before a man with a thorough knowledge of industrial and practical chemistry. The above is a fair sample, I think, of the methods of teaching chemistry in a majority of our state universities twenty-five years ago. In fact, very little progress had apparently been made since the introduction of laboratory work into the United States some twenty-five or thirty years arlier. In 1850 there were, so far as I can learn, only four or five institutions in the country which could boast of a chemical tboratory, and these were equipped in the most primitive way. Yale College had a small Laboratory barely large enough to acommodate a dozen students. Amherst had just opened a small laboratory and Lawrence Scientific School likewise had a \(try imperfect one. There were, perhaps, two or three other institutions which had go-called chemical laboratories. There were, however, no systematic courses of study such as we find in our universities to-day, and no courses in applied and industrial chemistry. Students who were desirous of a systematic study of chemistry ;in d inor especially along technical Lines, I to go abroad. With the ex- were for.
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