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...first of the proposed six new chemical buildings is being erected in the rear of the University Museum, and considerable progress has been made since last fall. The specially designed basement is now practically complete and some of the lower granite blocks have been put in place. The building will be called the Wolcott Gibbs Memorial Laboratory, in honor of Professor Wolcott Gibbs, who was formerly chief chemist of the Lawrence Scientific School. When complete, it will cost $75,000, which sum with an additional endowment of $30,000 has been subscribed by former friends and students of Professor Gibbs...
...issue of "Science' for October 1911. That paper contains the Faraday Lecture which he delivered before the Royal Institution of London last summer. The title of his lecture was "Fundamental Problems of the Elements," and in it he summed up and emphasized the general bearing of chemical progress for the last twenty years...
...speak in familiar terms in this the family circle of our Alma Mater, I would say that not the least interesting thing about this work, to my mind, is the revelation of the growth of the author. A comparison of this with his earlier works show a tremendous progress towards what I should call the modern and public as distinct from the old and individualistic point of view. Twenty-five years ago Professor Taussig would probably have accepted, with but slight modification, the view of the laissezfaire school that the State has little or nothing to do with economics...
...among older men as to the relative merits of liberal and technical training. Harvard is primarily an institution of Liberal Arts and Technology, we are proud to admit, stands well in the van of technical schools. It is our belief that the one is the complement of the other. Progress in the field of industry and invention can not be achieved in this country without there are capable and highly trained technical experts. In supplying these, Technology does our country an eminent service. But beside technical training, there is another quality which every real leader, whether he be engineer...
...attention to one group, but at the same time he is obliged to distribute the remainder of his work over other fields. Moreover, our system includes the element of continuity of subjects without making it necessary to confine one's course of study to a single line of progress. The group system is invaluable in that it promotes concentration to a certain degree, but an added asset of out system is that it also domands a considerable degree of distribution of study...