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COLLEGE RESEARCH I n the January number of THIS JOURNAL, Dr. Patrick admonishes the college professor t o leave research alone. I fear that this is a dangerous doctrine. Had Morley heeded such advice during his professorship in Adelbert College of Western Reserve University he would not have given to science his great classic on the combining weights of oxygen and hydrogen. I n the same city Professor Dayton Miller is now teaching physics. Case is a technical school with no great stress put on graduate work, yet Professor Miller manages to do most excellent undergraduate teaching while earning a reputation as one of our greatest authorities on sound. I n the early years a t Johns Hopkins, Professor Remsen himself lectured to the undergraduates, yet he did not feel that this weakened the quality of his research work. I have heard him lament the fact that so many men trained to research fell into a rut in college teaching and dropped research completely. Last April a t a.meeting of the Division of Chemistry of the National Research Council it was voted to encourage the college teacher to engage in research. None present approved this action more vigorously than did Dr. A. A. Noyes. A11 research men do not flash into bri liance suddenly like meteors; some have to develop the higher candle power slowly. This does not mean, however, that they may not finally become stars of appreciable magnitude. .A stimulating freshness and a feeling of authority come to the college teacher as he unravels the secrets of science. The teacher profits, the great body of science profits, and the pupil profits. The pupil then feels that he is near one of the fresh springs that feed the stream of knowledge into which he has been dipping. OBERLINCOLLEGE
