Word: offing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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"The next greatest need," he added, "is a great modern chemical laboratory for the thousand Professors and students now obliged to work in Boylston Hall. We have two admirable small laboratories--the Gibbs and Coolidge Memorial buildings--but they together accommodate only about 100, and according to deed of gift...
"Boylston Hall is probably the oldest large chemical laboratory in the world today. It was built in 1857 and at that time only a small part of it was intended for chemistry. Through the ingenuity of the Directors, Professors, Cook, Hill, Sanger and Lamb, it has been patched, enlarged and...
"I believe--though I am not fully cognizant with the plans--that it is intended to use a part of the Endowment Fund to fill the need of adequate provision for the study of chemistry here. Whether part of the Fund were to be used for it or not, the...
"The latest problem we have been dealing with at the Gibbs Laboratory, to which I have given a great deal of time, is that of radioactive lead. A large number of experiments of varying character have resulted in the showing that at least two kinds of lead exist: one, the...
"Investigation of chemical and physicochemical problems is, of course, going on at the laboratory all the time with the assistance of interested young men, who are usually candidates for the doctor's degree, and with the cooperation of many scientific individuals and institutions. The Carnegie Institution of Washington, and a...