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equal to the students who have attended 

 the English universities and prepare 

 them for work equally important? 

 And could we not give opportunity to 

 foreign men and women of ability to 

 continue here work from which they 

 will be debarred by the conditions fol- 

 lowing the war? 



the manufacture of high explosives. 

 Application has been made by Dr. Eitt- 

 man, on behalf of the federal govern - 



; ment, to patent these processes in order 

 to prevent any monopoly in their use, 

 the patents to be dedicated to the 

 American people. 



1 The statement made by Secretary 



The Hall of Trinity College. 



PETEOLEUM PEODUCTS 

 Secretary of the Interior Lane has 

 announced the discovery by Dr. Walter 

 F. Rittman, chemical engineer in the 

 Bureau of Mines, working at Colum- 

 bia University, of two chemical proc- 

 esses, one of which, it is claimed, will 

 greatly increase the supply of gasoline, 

 while the other may make the United 

 States independent in regard to mate- 

 rials necessary for the dye industry and 



Lane deserves quotation, for even 

 though his opinion of Dr. Rittman '.s 

 work may be somewhat optimistic, it 

 tells us what we may hope to accom- 

 plish by the proper organization of 

 chemical research. Secretary Lane 

 says: 



These processes are fraught with the 

 utmost importance to the people of this 

 country. For some time the Standard 

 Oil Company, through the great 



