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Volmtne 9
APRIL 10, 1931
Number 7
T h e Week at Indianapolis first, rather than o n any other criterion. Alfred H. White discussed the phases of curriculum planning necessary t o give industry t h e types of men it needs a n d emphasized the value of summer industrial work, both to students and instructors. ^.MBRXCAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY at Indianapolis by saying t h a t The Antioch plan of cooperative courses, in which study and ist was. held from March 3 0 t o April 3, that during this period industrial work are carried on b y students during their training H873 c h e m i s t s registered, and that some of them listened to period, w a s t h e subject of a discussion b y W . A. Hammond s=-omc o f t h e 4 1 0 papers presented in the 16 divisional programs. and D. S. Hanchett, who pointed o u t the success of t h e plan Another, w i t h peripatetic tendencies, might have observed i n developing i n students t l h a t a l l o f t h e 15 divisions some conception of the vwhich. -published time sched utility of the subjects of u l e s k e p t t o these schedules t h e classroom. Inspection faulty SLS well a s the single Our N e w Treasurer trips i n plants were charac diivision which remained u n terized by W. T . Read as t ramraieled. S u c h c o m W e take pleasure in an giving the students visual ments would have seemed nouncing that a t the meet demonstrations of t h e eco irrelevant, as well as iring of the Directors in Indian nomics of chemistry and r-everexit, t o the sociallyapolis on March 3 0 Robert helping them t o s e e the rjminded chemist who found T. Baldwin w a s unanimously value of application of the i-n t h e t w o d a n c e s , t h e e l e c t e d T r e a s u r e r of the things t h e y study. Doctor Speedway races, the various AMERICAN CHEMICAL SO Read detailed t h e procedure tflinnors, a n d t h e congenial CIETY, t o fill the unexpired found best in h i s long exlMttlc choker games a n antiterm of J o h n E . Teeple, de • perience in conducting stu cBotc f o r carking care. ceased. dents through plants. The meeting got under Doctor Baldwin comes to vway w i t h t h e Council ses Joint meetings between this position well qualified, s i o n ora. M o n d a y afternoon, selected groups of students having served faithfully as ex tlhe proceedings of which a n d industrialists have been ecutive secretary of the As axre described elsewhere i n conducted for some time sociation of Consulting Chem tJiis isssue. past a t regular intervals b y ists and Chemical Engineers, t h e Indiana Section. Wil Many early arrivals a t Inc., secretary-treasurer of liam Higburg described t h e t e n d e d the dinner and dance the Bureau of Employment of p r o c e d u r e followed. Ar i s i the Riley Room of t h e The Chemists' C l u b , I n c . , rangements for 2 - d a y meet Claypool H o t e l and heard secretary of T h e Chemists* ings, very much on the order Ntfercctith N i c h o l s o n d i s Club, secretary of t h e Chem Alman &· Co. of the intersectional meet course on t h e glories of I n ists' Building Co., secretary Robert T. Baldwin ings o f t h e SOCIETY, are and treasurer of the Chlorine cHiana, including politics. carried through, with the Institute, Inc., secretary and assistant treasurer of the Milk Sugar Three general meetings result t h a t much effort is Institute, Inc., secretary of t h e Sodium Phosphate Institute, isiitiated t h e scientific ses saved and t h e students are and executive officer of the Solvents Institute, I n c . sions o n Tuesday morning. given some idea of industry TThc D i v i s i o n of Chemical He is a member of t h e AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, t h e A m e r with a minimum interrup can Water Works Association, T h e Chemists' Club, t h e Cosmc Bduca/tion presented a Symtion of school work o r plant Club, the Masonic Order, the Technical Association of Pulp poosium on "Cooperation b e operation. and Paper Industry, the Textile Institute (British), and a t-ween. Industry and Chemimember of t h e executive committee of t h e N e w York Section cral E d u c a t i o n , " t h e Divi The second symposium, of the Society of Chemical Industry. sions o f Organic, Medicinal, t h a t o n "Contemporary D e He was formerly general superintendent of Joseph Bancroft & aand B i o l o g i c a l Chemistry velopments in t h e Chemis Sons Co., of Wilmington, Del. During t h e w a r he served as crombixied t o give a S y m t r y of Physiologically A c a civilian i n the Quartermaster Corps a n d Staff of the U . S. pDosiunn on "Contemporary t i v e Substances," was of Army, and following this h e was associated for a time with the such general interest that it Developments in the .National Aniline & Chemical Co. attracted a large number of Chemistry of Physiologi people, w h o l i s t e n e d t o cally -Active Substances," Walter G. C h r i s t i a n s e n aandth« Division of Physical describe " S o m e R e c e n t asnd TJnorganic Chemistry Developments i n the Chemotherapy o f Bismuth and Antimony o»ffered a Symposium on "Mathematics i n the Service of Chem Compounds;" Oswald T. Avery explain the "Significance of Bac istry."' terial Carbohydrates in Pneumococcus Infection and Immunity;" University research, whatever other objects i t m a y have, Walter H . Eddy delve into the subject of "Vitamins;" Authur nmust t>e conducted primarily t o instruct students, according to J. Hill describe "Present Trends in t h e Synthesis of Local Anes Γ
