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School of the Air, not only to the classes in the city but also to many classes throughout up-state New York and the Province of Ontario. The library system of the city consists of the main library, housed in the beautiful Rundel Library and Fine Arts Building, opened this spring, and 84 other libraries, branches, and distributing points. Visitors t o the city would be well repaid by a visit to the Rundel Building at the corner of South Avenue and Court Street and the Memorial Art Gallery on the women's campus on University Avenue. In the beautiful Eastman Theater, seating 3600 and with exceptionally fine acoustics, will be delivered the President's address on Tuesday evening, the week of the national meeting, preceded by a musical and followed by a reception in the adjoining Kilbourne Hall, both gifts of George Eastman to the University of Rochester. In the Eastman Theater, too, will be held the public meeting on Wednesday afternoon. It is in this theater that the Metropolitan Opera Co. stages its annual Rochester performance.
Rochester is recognized as a leader in the field of social welfare, occupying an advanced place among the cities of the United States in the standard of health of its citizens. Its public health department pioneered in the popularization of vaccination and inoculation. The city owns its own water system. It brings pure water more than 30 miles by gravity flow from city-owned upland lakes into its storage reservoir in Rush, N. Y., and its two local reservoirs where it is again aerated in its picturesque escape through the great fountains which are central figures of the reservoirs. The high quality of the water is said to have been an important factor in establishing the reputation of Rochester's five large breweries for the beverages they produce. The sanitary sewage of the city passes through well-managed and efficient disposal plants from which the effluent goes to Lake Ontario in a high degree of purity. The collection of garbage, which is done during the early morning hours as an aesthetic courtesy, is a city function, as is its disposal in the modern city-owned
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plant, which recovers the fats and converts the balance of the solids to fertilizer. Visitors to Rochester have always liked the city and many have stayed to become its permanent citizens. That is why Rochester grew from a scant 12,000 persons a century ago to the third largest city in the Empire State. You, too, will like the city and the arrangements which have been made for your visit to the fall meeting of the
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N THE area of the Rochester Section there are five universities and colleges. Two of these, the University of Rochester and Nazareth College, are in the city itself. The oldest college in this area is Hobart at Geneva, N. Y., founded in 1822. Alfred University at Alfred, N. Y., was founded in 1836; the University of Rochester, in 1850; Keuka, at Penn Yan, N. Y., in 1921; and Nazareth College, in 1924. The two last named are women's colleges exclusively.
QUADRANGLE, UNIVERSITY OF R O C H E S T E R
It had its inception in a movement among the Baptists of the state, which led several professors and a number of students of what was then Madison University at Hamilton, N. Y., to transfer to the more populous community of Rochester and there organize a new institution in the old United States Hotel building on West .Main Street. Although denominational in origin, it has long since become entirely nonsectarian in its organization, administration, and control. In the early 1850's it obtained by gift and purchase 25 acres of land in the eastern part of the city. In 1857 the state legislature appropriated $25,000 towards the erection of a university building—the only funds ever received by the university from the state—and this sum, supplemented by SI4,000 obtained by popular subscription, was used to build Anderson Hall, into which the universitv moved in 1861. In 1930 it again moved to its present beautiful campus of 87 acres in a great bend of the Genesee River, giving it a beautiful water frontage of nearly a mile. The move was made possible by a successful public campaign for S 10,000,000. This campus is for the men students, while the old UNIVERSITY of ROCHESTER RIVER CAMPUS SITUATED IN A BEND OF THE GENESSE RIVER T h e University of Rochester From its foundation in 1850 to 1900, the university enjoyed a steady, though slow and very conservative growth. In 1900 a new president was inaugurated, the university became coeducational, and it began a more rapid growth in endowment, buildings, and faculty. It is now one of the most heavily endowed educational institutions in the country. Perhaps few universities have roamed about as has the University of Rochester.
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campus has been given over to the women. T h e School of Medicine and Strong Memorial Hospital have been erected on a 60-acre plot just south of the campus of the College of Arts and Sciences and have an enviable reputation as being among the best in the country. T h e Eastman School of Music, the music school of t h e university, a n d t h e School of Dentistry are situated in the downtown area. In an address, "Rochester at SeventyF i v e , " given by John R. Slater before the Iota Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, he sums up the history of the University of Rochester in these words: It is the happy history of Rochester that she has grown biologically rather than geologically—by the method of roots and trunk and branches, rather than by the method, either of volcanic upheavals, or of successive sedimentary strata. There are universities that may be studied chiefly by examining the fossils of their Paleozoic era, the moraines and drumlins of their retreating glaciers, the abandoned shorelines of their forgotten seas of deep tradition, and the vast new superstructures of steel and concrete reared by the hand of man upon their level and denuded plains. At Rochester we have kept our fossils in the museum, where they belong. Our growth has been endogenous and indigenous, from the inside out; layer by layer, just inside the bark, with the heart still sound, and the sap rising every spring. We can study our past as a native life, not as an alien archeology; and like all life, it laps over from one generation to another, from one man's death to another man's life, with few seams and few scars to mark the inevitable storms of time. Hobart College Hobart College was founded in Geneva, N . Y., in 1822 as Geneva College. T h e first building was Geneva Hall, built in 1822, a n d then the only college building. It now is a dormitory. Hobart is the oldest institution of higher education of its kind in western or central New York State,
and Geneva Hall is t h e oldest college building i n t h e same area. T h e college continued t o be known a s Geneva College until 1852, when it was renamed Hobart Free College in honor of Bishop J o h n Henry Hobart, leading spirit among t h e founders. Later, i n 1860, it was changed t o Hobart College. Liberal in thought a n d action from t h e start, i n 1824 t h e trustees issued a printed letter in which they announced that t h e college proposed t o institute "besides t h e regular Course of Study pursued in similar institutions, a totally distinct course, i n direct reference t o t h e practical business of life, by which t h e Agriculturist, t h e Merchant, a n d the Mechanic may receive a practical knowledge of what genius and experience have discovered, without passing through a tedious course of Classical Studies." Here are found t h e seeds from which have UNIVERSITY sprung OF t h e modern bachelor of science degree. T h e original course was not known as the scientific course, but as the English course, and in its program a r e found all t h e essentials of t h e courses
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This dual curriculum of t h e college produced engineer a n d classical scholars. Thomas Musgrove Griffith, who attended the college in t h e late forties, built t h e first railway bridge across t h e Mississippi and surveyed t h e route for t h e first railway across t h e Isthmus of Panama. Brigadier-General Albert James Myer, one of Griffith's contemporaries, founded the United States Weather Bureau. And marching a t their side are William W a t t s Folwell, '57, first president of the University of Minnesota; James Rood Doolittle, a president of t h e University of Chicago; a n d Andrew Dickson White, first president of Cornell University, a member of t h e class of 1852. T h e oldest division of Syracuse University traces its origin to Hobart (Geneva) College. T h e Syracuse School of Medicine was originally a branch of Hobart College, and was known as t h e Geneva Medical College. I t s association with Hobart was terminated in 1872 when it became t h e original branch of Syracuse University. Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, first woman physician t o be graduated in t h e United States, received her degree from t h e Geneva Medical College in 1849. In 1908 a separate college for women was added through generous gifts of William Smith, prominent Geneva citizen who long had been interested in higher education for women. William Smith College, named after its generous founder, is a part of t h e Hobart corporation, but its relationship with Hobart College is that of a separate college for women with separate classes, possessing all of t h e advantages of coeducation, but none of t h e disadvantages. Hobart today bears an enviable reputa-
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which today lead to t h e B.S. degree. I t was the first course of its kind in t h e country.
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tion for t h e training of students in t h e field of chemistry. Several Hobart alumni hold responsible positions in the field of
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at a meeting in Apalachian, N . Y. f in 1882. After 6 years of discussion, an institution was i n c o r p o r a t e d in 1888 and located upon the Ketchum farm of 160 acres, 4 miles south of Penn Yan on the west side of Keuka Lake, a site of great natural advantage. Ball Hall was dedicated August 30, 1890, and K e u k a Institute began t o function as T H E GOTHIC F I R S T H O M E or ALFRED UNIVERSITY C H E M I S T R Y DEPARTMENT a preparatory school. It a t t r a c t e d m a n y students. Keuka College may be said charter on March 27, 1924, Keuka College to have begun formally in the fall of 1896 became fully accredited by the Regents when college classes were first organized. of t h e State of New York and soon afterDegrees were awarded annually from 1896 wards by the Association of Colleges and to 1915, at which time classes were temSecondary Schools of the Middle States porarily suspended. and Maryland. It has been accepted Keuka College reopened on September into the membership of the Association 21, 1921, as a college for women. The of American Colleges, the American Asstudent body consisted of 36 freshmen. sociation of University Women, and It was hoped to fill Ball Memorial Hall by the American Council on Education. 1926, but it was crowded to its capacity It is a participant in the Liberal Arts 2 years earlier. The gift of $100,000 by College Movement. BALL HALL, KEUKA COLLEGE
chemistry, both industrial and educational, and the work of the department at Hobart has been commended on the basis of the training shown by Hobart graduates in professional or graduate schools. The department today is under the direction of two most capable chemists and teachers, John Ernest Lansing, head of the department, and Ralph Hadley Bullard. Chemistry work is done in a separate building, Merritt Hall, devoted exclusively to chemistry. The first recorded mention of chemistry teaching at Hobart was in 1826, but since it does not constitute announcement of a new course at that time, and since no notice of a new course is available in any of the college records, it seems obvious that chemistry has been taught there since the college opened in 1822. First mention of a professor of chemistry appears in 1830 when Edward Cutbush, M. D . , was recorded as professor of chemistry and mineralogy. From that first record in 1830, the college has listed professors of chemistry consistently. K e u k a College The history of Keuka College may well be called an adventure in American idealism. Desiring to establish an educational institution in which their young people could acquire a preparation for life under Christian influences, the Central Association of Free Baptists proposed plans
STATE STREET AT A L F R E D UNIVERSITY
W. J. Richardson of Wellsville, N. Y., and the securing of $200,000 from the estate of John Rogers Hegeman were announced in the spring of 1924. These funds provided for the erection of the two new buildings so urgently needed to care for the growth of the student body. About the same time the Regents of the State of New York granted the college a permanent charter. The dreams of that little group of 40 years ago had at last been realized. With the granting of the permanent
N a z a r e t h College Nazareth College of Rochester was founded by the Sisters of St. Joseph in 1934. Its first class of 25 numbered 10 state-scholarship students. Fifteen of t h i s first class arrived at the bachelor of arts degree. The bachelor of science degree with major in chemistry was first granted to two members of the second class in June, 1929. The number in this course has been consistently increasing since that date.
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FERTILE FIELDS AMX> PEACEFUL W A T B B S
NEWS EDITION
JULY 2 0 , 1 9 3 7 T h e college work was begun in a spacious building o n L a k e Avenue near N a z a r e t h Academy, b u t after 4 years of growth removed t o a more commodious q u a r t e r o n Augustine Street. These buildings a r e now outgrown a n d plans a r e nearly completed for buildings t o b e located outside t h e city adequate for probable expansion for some years. Graduates from the Chemistry Department a r e holding laboratory positions with m a n y of t h e most i m p o r t a n t industrial companies a n d hospitals in Rochester a n d vicinity. T h e one w h o has built u p t h e D e p a r t ment of Chemistry a t Nazareth College is Sister Rose Miriam Smyth, P h . D . , f r o m Fordham University. She h a s done a significant piece of research in biochemistry a n d plans t o do some special work during t h e summer m o n t h s a t t h e University of Munich. Alfred U n i v e r s i t y Alfred University grew o u t of a select school founded a t Alfred Center on December 5, 1836, which was incorporated a s Alfred Academy in 1843. Alfred University was incorporated b y t h e S t a t e of New York in 1857. L a s t J u n e , Alfred University celebrated its centennial. I n 1900 was organized under t h e Alfred University administration t h e New York School of Ceramics, now t h e New York S t a t e College of Ceramics. I n 1902 was organized, also under t h e Alfred University administration, t h e New York State School of Agriculture, now being reorganized a s a technical school. Beginning i n 1849 courses in natural sciences were offered. I t seems t h a t t h e chemistry department grew o u t of this work. I n t h e 1870's a n d 1880's some form of chemistry was required in t h e industrial mechanics work. B y 1895 a full-fledged chemistry department was in operation under H . C . Coon. At t h a t t i m e t h e d e p a r t m e n t offered "theory a n d laboratory in elementary chemistry," courses in qualitative analysis, quantitative analysis, agricultural chemistry, soil analysis, a n d medical chemistry. T h e chemistry laboratory occupied t h e south wing of t h e Gothic in 1895. Since 1895 there h a s been a d e p a r t m e n t of chemistry in t h e Liberal Arts College of Alfred University. T h e Gothic served as t h e home for t h e newly organized School of Ceramics in 1900, t h e chemistry d e partment having moved in 1898 t o Babcock Hall of Physics, destroyed b y fire in 1929. T h e latest addition t o t h e chemistry work a t Alfred University is found in t h e Ceramic Experiment Station established by t h e s t a t e this year. H . C . Schurecht is director, J . F . McMahon is his associate, Major L a m p m a n , a n Alfred graduate in 1936, is their assistant. T h e experiment station proposes t o make research investigations concerning ceramic materials in New York S t a t e a n d ceramic processes, and t o publish reports for t h e ceramic industries.
Convention
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| ^ H E most unpredictable p a r t of a convention is t h e weather t h a t will exist during its sessions. D a t a for long-range predictions a r e so scattered, so fragmentary, a n d so little understood t h a t a n y prediction is n o more t h a n a guess. However, those w h o a t t e n d t h e fall meeting of the
AMERICAN
CHEMICAL
SOCIETY
in
Rochester, September 6 t o 10, would like to know w h a t t o expect, especially in t h e way of temperatures. Average temperatures for t h e week of September 6, compiled from unofficial
d a t a b y one of t h e local industrial meteorologists indicates t h a t t h e average d a y time temperature will b e a b o u t 70° F . a n d will d r o p t o a n average of 62° F . t h r o u g h t h e night—nice temperatures in which t o s t a y awake during meetings a n d in which t o sleep afterward. " A s a possible further guide in this conn e c t i o n , t h e weather prophet continues, " A b b o t t ' s twenty-one year weather cycle is now carrying us in t h e direction of colder and wetter weather. T h i s m a y tend t o lower t h e above figures, although a n average over such a snort interval of time is relatively meaningless in terms of a longterm cycle." A popular weather calendar predicts "mild weather on September 6, followed successively bry "pleasant," "fair," a n d finally " w a r m ' on t h e 10th. T h e general predictions a r e for "pleasant conditions" in t h e Rochester area during t h e period of t h e convention.
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News—Correction
N T H E N E W S E D I T I O N for J u l y 10, 1937,
page 300, a n error was made in t h e report for t h e E a s t m a n K o d a k C o . Figures for 1936 were reported in error for 1937, and figures for 1935 for 1936. T h e company has not y e t released figures covering the first 24 weeks of 1937.
16th Exposition o f C h e m i c a l Industries r
f 1 o M E E T t h e increasing world demand for t h e most improved chemical products a n d t h e most advanced chemical processing machinery, t h e American chemical industry is laying plans well ahead for t h e Chemical Exposition, which will be held a t t h e Grand Central Palace, New York, December 6 t o 11, 1937. Three entire floors have been reserved for t h e event. At this time all space on t h e first a n d second floors h a s been sold t o exhibitors a n d one-fourth of t h e total available space on t h e third floor is under contract. T h e Student Course in Chemical Engineering which has become a n established feature, a s conducted during t h e week of the exposition, will again be presented. This concentrated course in chemical processes a n d plant equipment provides a n unusual educational opportunity. Senior college students from a n y part of t h e United States are eligible t o enroll without cost. One unique opportunity which t h e course provides is t h a t of hearing national authorities in chemical engineering who are assembled a t t h e exposition. Relating w h a t they hear t o actual practice, t h e students have t h e additional opportunity of studying t h e greatest collection of actual chemical engineering plant equipment a n d process machinery which is ever assembled in o n e place. H a r r y J . Masson, head of t h e Departm e n t of Chemical Engineering a t New York University, is chairman of t h e Educational Committee of t h e exposition, under whose auspices t h e Student Course in Chemical Engineering is held. W. T . Read, Dean of Chemistry, Rutgers University, who has served a s director of t h e student course at previous expositions, will this year again be in full charge. An unusual feature of t h e 16th E x position of Chemical Industries will be a slogan contest offering t o t h e winner a prize of $250 in cash. T h e award will be m a d e t o t h e person who submits " t h e best descriptive expression encompassing t h e purposes a n d t h e benefits redounding t o t h e common good from t h e activities of t h e chemical industries."
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Meeting Calendar American Chemical Society 94TH MEETING.
Rochester, N . Y., Sep-
tember 6 t o 10, 1937. 9 5 T H M E E T I N G . Dallas, Texas, April 18 to 21, 1938. 96TH MEETING.
Milwaukee, Wis., fall of
1938. 97TH MEETING.
Baltimore, M d . , spring
of 1939. OHIO-MICHIGAN
REGIONAL
MEETING.
Columbus, Ohio, November 19 a n d 20, 1937. SECOND A N N U A L SYMPOSIUM, Division of
Physical a n d Inorganic Chemistry, on " T h e Less Familiar Elements." Cleveland, Ohio, December 27 t o 29, 1937. S E V E N T H N A T I O N A L ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
SYMPOSIUM, Division of Organic Chemistry. Richmond, Va., December 2 8 t o 30, 1937.
Other Scientific Societies AMERICAN O I L C H E M I S T S ' SOCIETY.
La
Salle Hotel, Chicago, 111., October 14 and 15, 1937. AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION.
New York, N . Y., August 16 t o 2 1 , 1937. AMERICAN P U B L I C H E A L T H ASSOCIATION.
New York, N . Y., October 5 t o 8, 1937. C H I C A G O E X P O S I T I O N O P P O W E R AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING. Interna-
tional Amphitheater, October 4 t o 9, 1937.
Chicago, 111.,
ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY. Hotel Chase,
St. Louis, Mo., October 13 t o 16, 1937. F I F T H INTERNATIONAL H E A T I N G & V E N -
TILATING EXPOSITION.
Grand Central
Palace, New York, N. Y., January 24 to 28, 1938. 16TH
EXPOSITION
OF CHEMICAL
INDUS-
TRIES. Grand Central Palace, New York, N . Y., December 6 t o 11, 1937. TECHNICAL
ASSOCIATION O F T H E P U L P
AND P A P E R INDUSTRY.
De Soto Hotel,
Savannah, Ga., October 18 t o 20, 1937.
Chicago Exposition ofPower a n d Mechanical Engineering HE Chicago Exposition of Power and Mechanical Engineering, October 4 T to 9, 1937, will offer a complete array of the latest power plant equipment, also the newest developments in machinery for ail t h e manufacturing industries. T h e show is receiving broad encouragement from interests in t h e Midwest and Great Lakes area who have long been anxious t o secure such a presentation for that territory. Time and location of t h e Chicago Power Show seem t o be right, a n d this is reflected in t h e number a n d caliber of exhibitors who have already decided t o participate. Manufacturers of power and mechanical engineering equipment whose factories are located in t h e Midwest a r e utilizing the exposition a s a natural way to bring a direct a n d personal message to their home market. National machinery manufacturers, in all sections of t h e United States, are finding in the exposition a longawaited opportunity to convey their technical achievements to t h e concentrated attention of t h e Chicago territory.
