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This allows the student to put the decimal point over the caret, and does away with the necessity of reasoning out where the decimal point belongs. He is thus able to do a problem of this type correctly without having used any reasoning process whatever. D e WITT T. REACH YALEUNIVERSITY, NEW HAVEN, CO~CTICUT
CoijPERATING WITH THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT April 23, 1926 Prof. Geo. W. St. Clair, Department of English, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N. Mex. DSAR DR. ST.CLAIR: There are in the University Library copies of the following books: "Creative Chemistry" by Slosson, "Life of Pasteur" by Vallery-Radot, "The Riddle of the Rhine" by Lefebure, "Discovery, the Spirit and Service of Science" by Greggory, "The Future Independence and Progress of American Medicine in the Age of Chemistry," "Chemistry in Industry," by Howe, together with a large number of other books treating chemistry in a popular manner. Next year there will be offered through a committee of the American Chemical Society six prizes of $1000.00 each for the best six essays on certain broad topics of chemistry. This contest is open to any freshman in an American college. I am wondering if it would be possible for you to permit, or even encourage, the writing of the regular themes in freshman English on the subjects of the titles which may be entered in this national contest. I should like very much to have more of our freshmen competing in these national contests. Very truly yours, JOHN OE C E E P ~ I S ~ Y , PROWSSOR
UNIVERSITYOP NEW MEXICO
D. CLARK
