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I N D U S T R I A L A N D ENGINEERING
CHEMISTRY
The University of North Carolina
MAIN PORTION OF UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA'S NEW LIBRARY WHICH WILL BE REGISTRATION AND GENERAL HEADQUARTERS FOR THE 93RD MEETING OF THE A. C. S. AT CHAPEL HILL, N. C , APRIL 12 TO 15, 1937
OCATED in the picturesque little village of Chapel Hill, famed for its natural charm and beauty, North Carolina has not only the oldest state university in America, but one that is regarded by scholars as having made more progress than any other in the South in the last quarter of a century. Chartered in 1789, the cornerstone of the university's first building, Old East, was laid in 1793, and the institution was formally opened to students in 1795. It is situated on a promontory on granite, 500 feet above sea level, with a flat country spreading out below in every direction. Chapel Hill is noted for its healthy climate and for its favorable weather the year round. Although the university's greatest physical expansion and scholarly attainments have come during the last 25 years, the institution had attained great eminence before the war between the states and was making its influence felt throughout the country. Many of the best families of the South were represented in its enrollment and more than a third of its students came from other states. While the university's most rapid development has taken place during the last 15 years, the transformation was beginning to get under way in the nineties. In his address on University Day, 1900, speaking of the quarter of the century then closing, President Francis P. Venable said:
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The University grew until from a handful of professors and a few dozen students it has come to be recognized as a leader among educational institutions in the South, it is overflowing with students taught by an able and enthusiastic faculty seven times as large as that twenty-five years ago. In the last twenty-five years its matriculates have been 2,896, its graduates 562.
Now, just 36 years after President Venable made that address, the resident enrollment of the university in one year is greater than the whole number he mentioned as having registered in the preceding 25 years. Today enrollment for the courses given off the campus through the Extension Division is almost as great as the resident enrollment, and the summer school registration usually numbers 2000 or more. Another way of gaining a concrete idea of the growth in resident enrollment is to point out that in 1918 it was 1000 as compared with approximately 3000 who will have registered before the end of the current scholastic year. Eight buildings stood upon the» campus
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in 1895. Now there are approximately 50. The value of the university plant at Chapel Hill is estimated to be in the neighborhood of $10,000,000. Most of the institution's support has come from state appropriations and alumni gifts. Its endowment today is less than $1,000,000. One finds in Chapel Hill a real university in the modern sense of the word, with the manifold and complex tasks of a modern university. "All useful learning" cannot be provided in a single school, so the university has constantly broadened out in its endeavor to live up to the charge laid upon it by the framers of the constitution. Whereas, in the beginning, there was only the College of Liberal Arts, the university is now a composite of 11 schools and two other major divisions—the General College of Arts and Sciences, Engineering, Commerce, Public Administration, Law, Medicine, Public Health, Pharmacy, Library Science, Graduate School, and the Summer School and Extension Division. The 1931 legislature passed an act providing for consolidation of the institutions at Chapel Hill, Raleigh, and Greensboro into a greater university. It has been the task of President Frank P. Graham—one of the most difficult jobs that ever faced any college president—to translate into actuality the terms of this consolidation. The consolidation program is still in progress. With a frequency that must be gratifying to the people of North Carolina there has come manifold evidence that the university's work is attracting widespread and favorable attention. Its admission to the Association of American Universities and its election to the presidency of that body (made up of 30 universities usually regarded as the foremost in America) is but one bit of testimony to the high esteem in which it is held. • Like other institutions throughout the country, the university was hard hit by the depression. Its appropriations were cut 5 0 per cent, the salaries of its faculty were slashed 50 per cent; but, despite offers from elsewhere running from three to four times what they were getting there, most of its professors elected to weather the storm at Chapel Hill, even at great financial sacrifice to themselves. They demonstrated a devotion and loyalty that probably has few parallels in the history of American education. The present-day university takes just {Continued on page 40)
AERIAL View or UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CAMPUS
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INDUSTRIAL A N D ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY
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News
Manufacturing Publication The 28 pages
of this bulletin describe the construc tion and operation of a line of auto matic coal stokers designed for industrial and commercial uses in capacities up t o 300 horsepower. The text deals with the scientific combustion cycle, and the adoption of burning heads to fit the coal in use. In addition, it describes a variable intermittent drive designed t o ensure a properly agitated fuel bed. Other features of interest are automatic air control and an analysis of a stoker efficiency test of an industrial application. There is a liberal use of diagrams and photographs covering a wide variety of installations. No. A1-5. COUPLED
PUMPS.
Engineers
operating
process industries' plants will be in terested in this bulletin describing a line of coupled pumps with capacities from 150 t o 5000 gallons per minute against heads ranging from 20 to 250 feet. The authors describe these pumps as successful in the handling of water, gasoline, brine, fruit juices, various solvents, chemicals, and such other diverse materials as starch suspensions and extracts. Photographs and per formance tables are liberally used for t h e readers' benefit. No. Al-6. ELECTROLYTIC
MICRO-
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TERMINATiONs. The pages of a labora tory supply house bulletin carry some interesting information on apparatus developed particularly for this exact class o f laboratory operation. In addi tion t o a description of electrolytic ap paratus, the bulletin carries descrip tions of other high-grade and useful apparatus. No. Al-4. EXACT W E I G H T INDICATING ATTACHMENT.
Users of heavy-duty scales will be in terested in this attachment designed t o secure much more exact reading on large scales. This attachment will fit all types of dormant scales, from 1000pound floor types to railroad-track scales. T h e large dial face makes quick and accurate reading of weights possible. No. A 1-2. FLOW-TΎΡΕ G A S CALORIMETER.
New 24-
page bulletin has been issued carrying a wealth of information on setting up this type of apparatus and conducting accurate tests. This bulletin covers the subject of flow calorimetry in a complete, practical, and concise manner. I t shows assembled and cross-sectional diagrams. In addition, it has essential calorimeter tables reproduced from Bureau of Standards Circular 65. No. A1-1. RESISTANCE WELDING.
A thoroughly in
teresting book dealing with the theory and application of resistance welding has been completed by a well-known welding engineer. This covers a general discussion of resistance welding, meth ods, and machines, as well as a number of other phases of the subject. Single copies are available to readers with an additional charge of 10 cents per copy where more than one copy is requested. No. A 1-7. STEAM
PLANT
EQUIPMENT.
This
12-
page bulletin carries a concise and read able discussion of a well-known line of valves, expansion joints, water columns, water gages, spray nozzles, and steam traps. T h e authors have combined
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In asking for any of the bulletins described below, please designate them by number. Requests should be addressed to Advertising Manager, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. 332 West 42nd St., New York, Ν. Υ. AUTOMATIC COAL STOKERS.
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section photographs and illustrations with concise specification data in a way which makes the bulletin thoroughly informal. No. A1-5. W E T & D R Y . Under this title a 40page bulletin discusses the instru ments and application methods for humidity control in a large variety of industrial drying and processing opera tions. The booklet gives a compre hensive review of modern humidity instrumentation. In addition, there is a workmanlike discussion of funda mental humidity control principles, including the effects of humidity levels on drying rates, safe temperatures, and the means of integrating humidity control in various drying schedules. No. A I-8.
HE following quotation is taken from the remarks in t h e Congressional Rec ord, May 19, 1936, page 7697:
There are different sorts of alcohol. Plain alcohol is the parent of all the alcohol family, and going on down from the parent we get ethyl alcohol, which is the potable or con sumable part of the alcohol family. Then we get butyl alcohol, depending upon the con tent. Then we get the methyl alcohol, and finally we get wood alcohol, and they are all traceable back to the parent of the whole alcohol family. Tin Plate a n d T i n Cans in t h e United States DESCRIPTION of the tin plate indus A try, from the iron and tin ore through to the finished products made from the tin
plate, is given in Bulletin 4 of the Inter national Tin Research and Development Council. This is a 144-page book, pre pared at the Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio, which may be obtained free of charge b y those interested in tin Manufacturers Licensed to U s e plate and can making from the institute or Lead Industries9 Seal o f from the International Tin Research Approval Development Council, 149 Broadway, N e w York, Ν. Υ . s OF January 1, 1937, the following The book is attractively prepared and manufacturers of lead plumbing well illustrated, and undertakes t o give a goods were licensed t o use the recently comprehensive but not unduly technical announced "Lead Industries' Seal of account of modern practice in the use of Approval" on lead pipe, traps, and bends tin, featuring recent American develop meeting the standards of the Lead Indus ments in continuous rolling practice. As tries Association, 420 Lexington Ave., the United States is the largest producer New York, N . Y. : Alpha Metal & Rolling Mills, Inc., T h e Andrews Lead Co.. Inc., of tin plate, the largest user of canned goods, and the largest user of tin, the Baker Lead Mfg. Co., Cambridge Smelt information included in this publication ing Co., Crown Metal Co., The Eagleshould prove of considerable interest. Picher Lead Co., Federated Metals Divi sion of American Smelting & Refining Co., Gardiner Metal Co., Marks Lissberger & Son, Inc., National Lead Co., Northwest Sands, Clays & Minerals Lead Co., Rochester Lead Works, Inc., White Metal Rolling & Stamping Corp. HE November, 1936, issue of Sands, Clays & Minerals, published b y A. L. Curtis, Chatteris, Cambs., England, is a considerably enlarged journal, which con sists of 76 pages with 29 illustrations. The size of the page has also been in creased. The journal attempts to cover the whole field of economic minerals, both Believe It or Not in subjects and geographical range. HE following chirp by Mildred Bird ap peared in the Christmas 1936 number of The Little C. A. and is reproduced here T h e University of North by courtesy of the editor, E . J. Crane.
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The G R O U N D S all W H I T E with S N O W TO D A Y , The FOLKE are GAY and M E R R Y , The HOUSE is B R I G H T with G R E E N and R E D D Of P I N E and HOLLY BERRY. From KITCHEN STEMEN odors TELLE Of BROWN ROAST FOWLE N E E R BYE, Of MOMMA C U T T I N G O N I O N S U P P , And MISUCH GOOD M I N Z PI. Each BOX and P R E S E N T is U N T I E D T ; The GOODCHILD, SANTA F O U N D her: The SMALL BOY GOTTA N I C E R E D D DRUM, And OH HOW H E E D I D P O U N D E R . "LETTS S I T T R O U N T R E E and S I N G H a WILE," SAID JAY TO BOBB and N E L L ; CLAIR UPTHEGROVE the CAROL RANG, For it WASS S U N G SOWELL.
Carolina
{Continued from page 24) pride in its rich heritage, its priceless tradition of 143 years of fine service t o the state and nation. I t has ever been mind ful of its glorious past, b u t it has never lost itself in the mere contemplation of that past. It would never be content t o rest on its laurels, well earned though they were. It has always been animated by a genuine spirit of service to state and nation. Although its 20,000 living alumni are scattered to the four corners of the earth, the greatest percentage of them live in North Carolina and they are to be found among the leaders in all walks of life. Today the state's chief institution of higher learning is pushing forward with a zeal and influence that is limited only by the utilization of every resource at its command. There is no end t o what it can do, so long as it is provided with the means with which to do it. And it claims as its most valuable asset the confidence of the people of the state in its ability t o carry out that high mission with which it has been entrusted.
