THE ALUMNI JOURNAL, 



Sec. 13. An Executive Committee shall be 

 appointed by the Class, consisting often (10) in 

 number, as follows : President, Vice President, 

 Secretary and Treasurer of the Class, e.\ officio, 

 and six (6) additional members, equally chosen 

 from each of the two sections, duty of said Com- 

 mittee to see that the commencement exercises 

 of the Class are properly conducted. 



Junior N°tes. 



Juniors now is the time fcr review if you 

 have not already commenced. Examination 

 day is less than four weeks off, and there are 

 few of us indeed, whose year's record would not 

 be benefited by some extra study. 



Before our next issue, the 20th of April will 

 have gone, and the question, have you passed, 

 will be settled. The Journal merely hopes that 

 every Junior can answer that question with yes. 



SkylER says you don't know what work is 

 until you have pulled Moffat up to the third or 

 fourth floor on the dumb-waiter. 



The class enjoyed a laugh on one of our 

 professors the other day, who after lecturing, 

 several mintutes, describing a chart, discovered 

 that it was upside down. 



Invitations are out for a reception to be 

 held at 38 W. 94th street, Thursday evening, 

 March 21, given by Messrs. Jant, Gugorins and 

 Zriner. These gentlemen deserve great credit 

 in trying to bring the class together socially. 



PETTiNGER says a tuber is the root with a 

 tube on the inside. Some of the class have their 

 doubts. 



IT has been decided to hold the arithmetic 

 examination about two weeks before the others, 

 which is very satisfactory indeed, to the stu- 

 dents. 



Prof.— How would you determine in the 

 power of , percolation when the drug is ex- 

 hausted. 



X. — No answer. 



Prof. — Take the cochineal for instance. 



X.— Its a light color. 



Prof. — Light blue or green. 



X. —Light green. 



J. Y. Cantwell, 261 W. 42d Street. 



our three little maids 



Few classes can boast of girls rare 



In wisdom, or features fair, 

 For only Juniors seem to have 



Such girls with dark and golden hair. 



One from haughty, God's descended 

 One fr m Cupid's smiling hand, 



One like Psyche never offended 

 Her anger could command. 



Such the three in combination 

 Tipping softly, in they come, 



Then a storm of approbation 

 Slartles like a bursting bomb. 



'Tis because the boys are happy 

 And their hands give vent to bliss. 



Not because they would be naughty 

 Gentle maids don't think amiss. 



C. H. Patrick, 



THE SYNTHETIC FOOD OF THE FUTURE. 1 



By HARVEY W. WILEY. 



The problem of human nutrition is the 

 great groundwork of sociology. I use 

 the word nutrition in its broadest sense, 

 including clothing and fuel, which, while 

 not as essential as food to life, are quite 

 as important factors in civilization. Until 

 within a few years the study of nutrition 

 and the means of providing it have been 

 deemed the exclusive function of agricul- 

 ture. In the development of this idea, 

 we have seen springing into existence in 

 all parts of the civilized world, within the 

 past twenty-five years, colleges of agri- 

 culture and agronomic experiment sta- 

 tions in large numbers. Especially in 

 this country have we seen the greatest 

 activity in this line. In all the States 

 and territories, fostered by the federal 

 government, schools have been establish- 

 ed in which instruction in agriculture 

 has been made a fundamental branch of 

 the college curriculum. There are fifty - 

 seven agricultural experiment stations in 

 the United States. Each State and ter- 

 ritory has at least one. Louisana has 

 three, Alabama, Connecticut, Massachu- 

 setts, New Jersey, aui New York each 

 two, and the Departat«i.t of Agriculture 



1 Retiring address of Harvey W. Wiley, as President of 



the Society, Boylston Hall. Harvard University, Dec. 28, 



894. (Reprinted in Jour. Amer. Chem. Soc, March, 1895}. 



