Great Yale-Princeton titration contest - Journal of Chemical Education

The Great Yale-Princeton Titration Contest We should like tnreport the first intercollegiate titration contest, held in December 1977, between Yale and Princeton. This contest was arranged by one of the authors (M.P.), during the process of planning the laboratory curricula for both institutions. Because of the long-standing rivalry between the two schools, the idea turned out t o be a powerful motivator and added a lot of interest to lab programs a t both universities. The cxneriment ~. . ~ , . ~ used for the contest was a titration of a sodium oxalate unknown with KMnOa. This ex~erimenthas been used a. a p r e ~ t : ~L.X~III a l ~ O ~ S O I I I).ems, P and crhaurt:ve *ludic*h ~ \ wt e n nnndr of its relldd~r!;md rhc .dwntayrc .>!III di.8dwntage4 of thiisr\Ic u t grading.' The urlrrrn direcmnsriwn 11, htllh dnmp- uwr almrtral,cxcrpr iur a m c i m d . # u ~ n i ~ ~ i - l r ~ ~ t i v ~ ~ h d n q r ~ rrquirrd hv tht l'rinlrton H m o r Code Both itudmt gnrup;