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ception of these Pew Institutions the i

ing of chemistry was entirely didactic.

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is not surprising, therefore, that little or no progress should have been made during

the next twenty or thirty \vars in the

teaching of chemistry,

I do not moan to say that there were no

srroat teachers of chemistry during those pioneer days. Such a statement would be incorrect, (ov there were men who l ou! in chemistry during the fifties, sixties

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and seventies, as prominently in OUT own

country as Liebig and Wohler did in Germany during the earl} pari o( the eontury. Such men as Silliman and Cook stood out preeminently during be fifties and sixties,

while men like Elliott, Remsen, Chandler, Morley, Mabery, Mallet and others hav<

given the institutions with which they were

connected such a standing as to place them on the same plane with the older institutions o( Europe, In this early epoch, practi illy none of the stato universities of the center a 1 middle west had reached a point when they could offer to the studenl td practical cours 3 in chemistry, One reason, 1 think, was a lack of well-trained teache hut the chief reason was doubt JS an i H nomic one. The stato universities turned out few skilled chemists because thei was no demand for such men in the - inter am middle W t. The gr ( industrial ioititu tions were DOI I tnpell I to resort to s ;ence and to the reclamation pn u order to earn laj dividends Hi. ed chemist bad not jri I entered on th, it.

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