January, 1928
INDUSTRIAL AND ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY
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accomplishes most in the environment of the warm, sympathetic support of the local section nearest its meeting place, it brings no additional responsibility to the local section, requires no local section financing, but offers instead a new opportunity particularly advantageous to those so located that without much effort they can participate in all the interesting features. The Institute of Chemistry of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY is furthermore not intended to advance the interests of any individuals or of any particular educational institution. The fact that the meeting place does receive favorable press notices is a by-product of the project and incidental to its main purpose. The present plan to choose a new location for each annual meeting gives a larger number of institutions the opportunity to profit from this by-product than if it were held, like other institutes, always in one place. Eventually there might be established an independent center for research, the Institute and a summer colony of chemists modeled H E election just completed by the Council of the SOCIETY after the Marine Biological Laboratory, but that is for the resulted as follows: President, S. W. Parr, of Urbana. future. The Institute does, however, definitely plan as a part of its Ill.; director from the fourth district, W. D. Bigelow, of Washington, D. C.; from the sixth district, E. C. Franklin, of work publicity for chemistry and the accomplishments of Stanford University, Calif. ; councilors-at-large, H. N. Holmes, chemists. It hopes to contribute much to the recognized of Oberlin, Ohio, Treat B. Johnson, of New Haven, Conn., and constructive effort toward adult education in so far as authenEdward Malliiickrodt of St. Louis, Mo. William ,J. Hale and tic accounts in the public press may further our persistent, Joel Hildebrand were tied and according to the Constitu- though a t times tedious, work of creating so great a body of tion the fourth councilor-at-large must be chosen as between public opinion favorable to our science as to gain for it these gentlemen by the Council a t its meeting in St. Louis sympathy and substantial support. The Institute, then, is planned as a summer conference on next April. the order of an occupational vacation, varying from a single session to the entire four weeks, depending upon the desires of the individual. Here is a program so arranged that all MONG your New Year’s resolutions, be sure to include in may be given what they most desire, in so far as it is humanly those you intend to keep a determination to participate possible, varying from those wishing a minimum of work with in the second session of the Institute of Chemistry of the a maximum of rest and diversion to those who want to spend AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY,scheduled for Northwestern all their waking hours considering the problems of their University a t Evanston, Ill., July 23 to August 18, 1928. science. Here is time and place for unlimited discussion, You have heard much concerning the success of the first for making more than casual contacts with the fellows of the session of the Institute, but unless your information has come profession, many of whom have made their names synonymous from one of those who actually took part in that experiment, it with chemical achievement. Here is an opportunity to spend is possible that your picture and ideas are a bit hazy as to what a delightful time on the shores of Lake Michigan in a veritable the Institute is and why you should plan to be a part of it. oasis set down in the midst of a great center which offers The Institute is distinctly not a summer school. The fact industry, art, music, and recreation. Your committee charged with the duty of planning and that arrangements were made for those who desired academic credit for the work done in connection with the Institute, carrying through the Institute program is in the midst of this being desirable in the case of certain teachers seeking perfecting details for the 1928 session. These men want your promotion, is not to be interpreted as an indication that the views, and to make it easy, we give you here their names: Institute of Chemistry competes with any of the regular F. C. Whitmore, chairman, IT. E. Gordon, B. S. Hopkins, summer schools, nor that it is organized, planned, or con- C. E. K. Mees, C. M. A. Stine, G. L. Wendt, W. R. Whitney, F. W. Willard, and ex officio, C. L. Parsons, H. E. Howe, ducted as a summer session. The Institute is not a symposium and when we shall shortly and S. W. Parr. be able to announce the subjects for general conferences and Invitations have already been dispatched to prominent intensive courses of lectures, it will be seen that if you wish to foreign chemists whom it is hoped to have present, and ere apply the word “symposium” it will have to be done in a long you will find in our News Edition the details announced magnified plural. ITeither is the Institute just an additional as they are concluded. meeting of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. It is true that Those who are interested in the development of this you will find many chemists of prominence in attendance, method for continuing adult education are naturally enbut that is the case these days, no matter what type of scien- thusiastic, for they see the great potentialities of the plan. tific meeting or conference you attend. Chemistry is slowly Industrial leaders caught the spirit of the session of 1927 but surely pervading the entire field of science. The In- and have retained their enthusiasm. Members who came stitute is neither organized nor conducted like meetings of the long distances were so well pleased that they plan to attend SOCIETY, and this is particularly noticeable in the time the 1928 session. And our foreign visitors were so favorably available for discussing every topic and for the welcome impressed that they see in such a plan elements for the imleisure with which the work is admixed. provement of international meetings and congresses. DirecAgain, the Institute is not a regional meeting. It is not a tors of research laboratories intend to have members of their local section activity. It goes far beyond any of the es- staffs make the most of the Institute sessions. You will want tablished regions in drawing its membership and is more to give it full consideration in making your plans for the period extensive &Q in scope and purpose. While the Institute July 23 to August 18, 1928.
stimulation possible through such lectures and endowed, to the extent of 510,000, this children’s course in memory of James Uapes Dodge, her husband and one of the most notable of American inventors. The first Christmas lectures of the new foundation, three in number, were given by Wilder D. Bancroft on Combustion, Comfort, and Color. That the impression may be more lasting, the audience is encouraged to keep notebooks and cash prizes are offered for the three best. We are delighted with these constructive efforts to call the attention of youth to the reality, the service, and the possibilities of science, and believe that the reward will come in increased appreciation for scientific work and in the development of greater numbers of outstanding American scientists.
Election Results
The Second Session
A
