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furthermore, the state unn wei ar abl to train such men had thei b u a demand, They v re I ru liny 1 keep up \\ ith the rapidlj groM ing popula tion of the Btate, and little moi ould be done titan to teach neral chemistry in crowd 1 and poorlj equipped laboratories. In fact, the state unii rsities of the center and middle west twentj five yeari i were supported by the state as belori m in the ame class as reform schools and institu tions of similar nature. The state had not yet come to realize thai the university is its 1 i\ investment, uo1 only Crom the men

tal and moral hut also from the strictly

commercial point of new. The Btate universities, I think, occupy a % position quite different from any D[ the

other educational institutions. They are a

part of the great commonwealth, they belong \^ the people of the state and hence must, if they fulfill their obligations to the

Stat< not, only train men and women for

ivic hut also for purely scientific and industrial life, Neither must be Q looted, ( During the pasl decade practically all of the state universities have come \<) realize

this Tact, and nowhere in the world ha

there been such rapid development aloni the lines o\' both pure and applied ohem

is! ry as in these institutions. The teachite

of chemistry in these rapidly developini

ilcs has n a t u r a l l y and properly taken an

industrial trend. There is not a sinirle itule university to day w hioh is not, bosid< doing n i arch work, matei ili\ assisting in the industrial development of the state f- M whioh it receive itH support, n | I no loni r diffloull to obtain appi pi itioi