Caption: Booklet - Addresses from Inauguration of Noyes
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-IS instruction is that the student c mes into direct personal contact with D thai s ibout which he is to study and | ins first-hand knowledge. While chemists wer the pioneers in this method of instru n, physicists and biologists soon i w it ad vantages and introduced it in those scid ences. The principle has now perm every historv psychology sciences. Bv the middle of the nineteenth centur the methods to be used in training a band of chemists were being rapidly developed And it came to be more and more clearly recognized that the training is not merely to give to the student a knowledge of chemical facts—it must give to him the power to think for himself and to strike out into new and untried paths. I t is this power of individual initiative which is given to the students in the German laboratory that has placed Germany in th( front ran' in chemical manufacture as well as in research and instruction. Some of the most important applications of chemistry in the industri j w re developed early, along experimental lin ; having little or no connection with scientific work One hundred and fifty years ago, these who were smelting ores of iron and eoppei and lead and zinc knew very little of the worl of the chemists of their day. And the same was true of I hose who wore tanning leather, dyeing cottons, woolens and silks, burning bricks and potter) and ehina :na king g] IS and working in many other ehemieal industries already well developed
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