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Furthermore, it must be remembered that a majority of 

 those being trained in university laboratories are looking for- 

 ward to entering various industries. This is to be expected, 

 for ours is a country in the midst of a great industrial de- 

 velopment. We have passed through the pioneer days when 

 the conquering of a new land, the struggle for habilitation, 

 was supreme ; so, too, has the fight for liberty of thought and 

 action been won; and just a half century ago, in that bitter 

 fratricidal strife, was established once and for all the fact 

 that this is a united country. With the recovery from the 

 wastage of that war industrial development came into its 

 own. Manufacturers are no longer characteristic of any one 

 section, but, as labor becomes trained, are spreading rapidly 

 over the whole land. Capital is constantly increasing and 

 seeking profitable channels of investment. 



It is important to us that the manufacturer is rapidly be- 

 coming convinced that the work of the chemist results in the 

 substitution in industries of scientific foundation for gross 

 empiricism, of accurate knowledge for approximate guess- 

 work, and of lines of attempted advance based upon the re- 

 sults of research for the hit-or-miss method. This conviction 

 was greatly strengthened by the address of President Little 

 before this Society in 1913, on the subject of "Industrial 

 Research in America." 



Another call for the chemist in industry has arisen from 

 the propaganda for conservation of our natural resources. 

 President Bogert, in his 1908 address, pointed out clearly the 

 important role the chemist must play in this great undertak- 

 ing. 



In view of the consequent increasing demand for chemists 

 and of the relatively small number of highly trained men 

 from our laboratories, is it small wonder that so many of our 

 university students are looking forward to entering industrial 

 chemistry as a profession ? 



In advocating a more general pursuance of research in 

 applied chemistry in university laboratories, I do not feel that 

 the prerogatives of the commercial industrial research labo- 



