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was always inspiring. He insisted not only on a mastery of the principles of chemistry, but he also inculcated 

 the proper use of the English language, good manners, and clear methods of expression. In a word, he made 

 a course in general chemistry a liberal education in itself. This he could do very effectively while the classes 

 were small, but after 1900, as the classes grew larger, he confessed he had not accomplished all he had hoped for. 

 This made teaching less a pleasure to him, and he was not sorry to give it up in 1906. His former students 

 always speak of him with great loyalty and acknowledge the helpful influence of his teaching. 



In the college at Hudson, as in all other small colleges, the salaries paid the professors 

 were small. Morley, therefore, found it desirable, and perhaps necessary, to eke out his income 

 by expert work, chiefly analytical, outside of his regular duties. I have no means of knowing 

 whether he was often called upon to testify as an expert in court, but I do know of one amusing 

 case in which he testified to good purpose. I have the story from his own lips, although I had 

 already heard it from others. 



The case to which I refer involved certain questions relative to sugar, and the day before 

 the hearing the lawyer on the opposite side notified his friends that if they wanted to see some 

 fun they had better be present and hear him cross-examine the professor. The cross-examination 

 began, and after some preliminary questions the lawyer said: "Now, Professor Morley, what 

 is the chemical formula of sugar?" "What sugar do you mean?" Morley replied. "I asked 

 you, Professor Morley, to tell me the chemical formula of sugar." Morley repeated his former 

 answer. "Professor Morley," said the lawyer, "you need not try to evade my question, but 

 if you don't know the formula of sugar you are not qualified to appear as an expert in this 

 case." "Well," said Morley, "if you don't know that there are at least 20 different sugars, 

 you are not qualified to cross-examine me." The hearers were amused, but not quite as their 

 legal friend had expected. This anecdote illustrates Morley's quickness of mind, and suggests 

 that in his first reply he had laid a trap for the lawyer. He had doubtless heard many foolish 

 questions from students, and knew how to deal with them. 



In 1873 Morley added the professorship of chemistry and toxicology in the Cleveland 

 Medical School to his other duties, which forced him to spend much time in traveling between 

 Hudson and Cleveland. This position he resigned in 1888 when his other work made greater 

 demands upon his time. In 1882 the college was moved from Hudson to Cleveland, where, 

 as Adelbert College, it became a part of Western Reserve University. This meant an increase 

 in Morley's opportunities for research, and at Cleveland, where he remained until his retire- 

 ment, he carried out most of the larger investigations which made him known to the world as 

 an experimentalist of the first rank. 



During his residence in Cleveland Morley brought together one of the best private col- 

 lections of chemical periodicals to be found in America. He even included in it a Russian 

 journal, and learned enough of the Russian language to make use of it. After his retirement 

 from teaching, the university bought his library, and it is now in the new chemical laboratory, 

 for which he drew the plans, and which is now known as the Morley Chemical Laboratory. 

 In 1906 he went to West Hartford, Conn., near the home of his boyhood, where he built a small 

 house, with a garage, and also a laboratory, in which he made, with his usual thoroughness, 

 many analyses of rocks and minerals. Of this work I shall have more to say later. Morley 

 could not be idle. Indeed, for many years he was in the habit of working about 14 hours a day. 



Except during Morley's early years his health was fairly good, which made it possible for 

 him to perform his many and varied labors. Professor Tower says of him that — 



his laboratory and classroom were on the third floor of the main building of Adelbert College, while his research 

 work was carried on in the basement. He would make the trip up and down stairs scores of times a day, watch- 

 ing a class in quantitative analysis at the same time that he was engaged upon one of his most delicate operations 

 in the basement. Out of curiosity he one day attached to himself a pedometer, and found that he walked about 

 20 miles when putting in a busy day. However, no constitution could withstand indefinitely this strain of long 

 hours and hard work. In 1895 his strength gave out and he was granted a year's leave of absence, which he 

 spent in Europe, resting and recuperating. This was the only full year's rest that he took during his teaching. . . . 

 After his return in 1896 the college authorities granted him more assistance, and in 1898 the trustees voted to 

 relieve him of as much teaching as he was willing to relinquish, so that he could give more time to research. 

 He chose, however, to retain the course in general chemistry and the one in quantitative analysis. 



These courses he continued to teach until he retired as professor emeritus. 



