CONTEST FOR HIGH-SCHOOL AND FRESHMAN STUDENTS On this page is reproduced another of the series of drawings prepared for us by Prof. John J. Condon of William Nottingham High School, Syracuse, New York. Write a brief statement, telling what is wrong with the picture. Use complete sentences; do not merely list mistakes. Type your manuscript, if possible; if not, he sure that you write legibly. Type or write on one side of the paper only. Make a correct drawing, showing the picture as you think i t should he. Use black India ink and white drawing paper. (If you believe that you can draw better on coordinate paper, white paper with blue rulmgs must he used.) Drawings should be approximately 4" X 6" or 8" X 12".
Place your name a t the top of each page of your manuscript and a t the top of your drawing. On a separate sheet accompanying your manuscript write your own name, the name and address of the institution a t which you are a student, the name of your chemistry instructor, and the name of the chemistry club a t your institution (if there is one). Address your paper to: The Associate Editor, JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION, The Johns Hopkins University, Homewood, Baltimore, Md. Your contribution to this month's contest must be postmarked not later than April 15th.
Awards The best contribution received wiU be awarded a prize of five dollars and will be published in the June J OURNAL. The five next best papers will 893
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receive awards of one dollar each and the names of the winners will be printed in the June number. Contributions will be judged on the basis of: 1. Correctness from a chemical standpoint 2. Neatness and correctness of drawing 3. English 4. Neatness and legibility of manuscript. Papers which do not comply with all of the rules of the contest will not be considered.
WHAT IS SCIENCE? Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense.-HUXLEY Science is nothing more or less than the mast accurate and best authenticated information that exists, subject to constant rectification and amplification, of man and his world.-RoarNso~ The scientist is a auestioner, a discoverer,. a .~ o i n t e r - o u t . - R o s l ~ s o ~ Science is an orderly or systematic arrangement of statements of fact or truth: that is scientific in which all the statements are accurste and their correct relation t o each is set forth in logical order.-CUANE Science embraces the whole immense round of ~ I U ~ ~ . - - C R A N E Science is an intellectual outlook, a standard of truth, and a gospel of light.GREGORY The first object of a course in science should be t o develop a scientific habit of th~ught.-R~~sz~ The object of science is t o codify knowledge and t o descrihe relations between phenomena in the simplest possible terms.-EAST Science is thoughtful inquiry into the order of nature, human nature included.CWRTIS Science is the product of human reason applied t o the phenomena of nature. The straight-thinking man was always a scientist.-CURTIS Scientists are not wizards, but men who apply to natural phenomena the methods of analysis used by logical minds in the affairs of daily life.-CmTrs Science, in short, includes all the careful and critical knowledge we have ahout anything of which we can came to know something.-RoslNsoN Sciesce Educ.
Science is the systematic description of natural phenomena.-THEODOREW. RICHARDS What is the aim of science? Not only t o know but much more to understand nature, and we understand a phenomenon only when we recognize logic in it. So in science we try t o discover logic in the behavior of matter. We meet every moment with phenomena which a t first sight seem contradictory; then we try t o reconcile them, i. e., to raise the problem t o a higher level where the apparent contradiction dissolves t o a higher unity. We cannot he content as long as we have not found this unity, and therefore we are continually pursuing that god-H. R. K n w T
