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AMERICAN CONTEMPORARIES Edmond O'Neill
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who came to him to learn something of chemistry and who left him instructed, not only in science. but in his wholesome philosophy of life. Ne had a human interest in the activities of the students. He was gentle, tolerant, and sympathetic in his dealHe was B leader in university activities. He ings with them took an active part in organizing the Alumni Association and was several times president of the association. For many years he represented the faculty in the student affairs committee and in the committee on athletics. Professor O'Neill's interest in his fellowmen and his willingness to serve was indicated in the establishment of the first summer-session courses. I n 1895 a few high-school teachers asked for instruction in chemistry during the summer vacation. N o summer work had been offered in Berkeley u p to that time. O'Neill secured permission lo use the laboratory for this purpose and without compensation he spent half of his summer vacation giving instruction to the group of teachers. He continued this policy every summer fur five years bcioie a s u m m e r - s e s s i o n program was officially announced. Professor O'iTTeill hasa jovial disposition. He has a good story for any occasion. With a fine sense of humor he brings mirth and good-will to every group that he visits. Gifts and tokens of esteem havc been presented to him by dozens of classes, clubs, and fraternities. O ' N d has published scveral papers and he has been elected to membership in many scientilic societies. As [L member of many important committees he O"ei1l has rendered valuable service to the state and to the nation. b u t his meatest strength has C"*IrC(IS The outstanding feature of O'ikill's long and useful career been in teaching and in administrative work. C . W. PORTER was his fine influence upon the lives of thousands of young people
FTER furty-five years of service in the department of chemistry of the University of California, Edmond O'Neill retired with a Carnegie pension on June 30, 1025. He was born in Nashville, Tennessee. in 185.8, but the Sail Francisco Ray region has been his home since 1804. He was graduated from the University of California in 1879 and was appointed instructor in chemistry the same year. His graduate work was done io Europe tietween 1884 and 1887. He received instmction from Fittig iii Strassburg, Hofmann in Bcrlin, and Pasteur in Paris. When O'Neill first entered uimn his teaching career in Berkeley, all the activities of the university were conducted in two buildinps. One of these buildings, South Hall, houscd the department of chemistry, the department of physics, and the university library. During the first few years of his service the faculty of the department of chemistry was limited to three members, and O'Ncill had experience in teaching physical, analytical, organic. and physiological chemistry. I n those days, too, the professor had much to do in addition to teaching and research. The administrative ofices as we know them today had not been established. For many years i~roressor O ' N d collected the fees from students entering his laboratory and disbursed the fund for supplies and equipment without the aid of a purchasing department and without clerical help in his own office. He placed the apparatus in the desks in the fall and cheeked it out in the spring. He was the lecturer. the Edmond demonstrator, and the reader in half a dozen ~
More Substitutes
An Apparatus for Circulating Gases
Editor of Industrid end Engineering Chcnistrj: Let us keep "substitute" ior oleomargarine. T w o new words are needed .%b, Par, and super give the whole range, are already familiar to everyone, and are easy to say. They allow the verb and the noun to be the same. "Substitute," "parstitote," and "superstitutc" are adequate and appropriate, I think. Please note that I am "parstituting" two one-cent stamps for a two-cent stamp on your envelope.
Editor of Industrial mad Engineer&g Chemistry: At the time of publication of this artidc [TITISJOURNAL, 19, 425 (1027)j it was unfortuiiatcly unknown to the writer that Maass [ J .A m Chem. SOL.,41, 57 (1919)j had previously applied h i s automatic control to the circulation of gases. The apparatus he described operates on precisely the same principle as that described by the undersigned. H. N. STEPHENS sc""01. "P CIiEralsrrv
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Correction
Edilor Indvslrid and Eitgineering Ciwnislry:
I n "Somc Soiirces of Ikror in the Determination of Phos-
If no one has suggested thc word "replacer," for "aii>stit!tte." I now do so. P**KB,
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