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It may be objected that a large proportion of our undergraduates will 
then never have any training at all in the methods of research and will 
neyer enter this field, since a comparatively small number ever pursue 
graduate studies. Well, we might, with equally good logic, conclude that a 
large proportion of these undergraduates will never be physicians or pro- 
fessional attors, or will go to China or be bank presidents. We do not 
expect large numbers to do any one of these things. On the contrary we 
know that only a comparatively small number could be efficient and suc- 
cessful if their work were confined to chemical research, rather than to 
the hundred other lines of endeavor in pure or applied chemistry. But 
we do desire that a certain respectable minority of the men and women who 
leave us shall distinguish themselves, in at least a modest way, by carrying 
on successful work in scientific investigation and that, being effective in 
this work, they shall continue it through their best years and thus aid 
in the development of science and bring some reward of honor to themselves 
and to their college. How this can best be done is the question before us. 
If we leave out of consideration a comparatively small minority of college 
men who develop notable research ability in their technical work after 
graduation, we may say that the great bulk of our important research work 
is being done by men who have had graduate training in the universities or, 
to be strictly accurate, by graduate students or industrial fellows work- 
ing under the direction of such men. One is not to suppose that the end of 
the senior year in college marks a sharp division between completed mastery 
of the science, on the one hand, and development of research ability, on 
the other. But the recent graduate has at least had fair scientific training 
in theory and manipulation and he is now free from the necessity of carry- 
ing other studies. Also he should have an attitude of more complete devo- 
tion to the one absorbing subject of chemical investigation. Given the 
proper research atmosphere, an inspiring and able director and the will to 
work, he can now begin to know something of the meaning of research. 
In addition to the benefit to be derived by the graduate student from de- 
yotion to the work of scientific investigation under proper direction, there 
is to be considered the reaction of this upon the undergraduates of the same 
school. For the undergraduate to be denied the opportunity to carry on 
research is not then in the nature of a discouragement. Rather, it should 
be a constant source of inspiration to him to see a relatively small but 
cnthusiastic body of graduate students doing effective research work and 
providing material suitable for presentation before critical scientific bodies 
and for publication in important scientific journals. This kind of work 
is kept before the undergraduate as a possible and desirable future activity 
for him as an individual and he is likely better to appreciate the necessity 
for a thorough preparation in the necessary foundation for such work. 
When we inquire what Indiana is doing to provide facilities for graduate 
work in chemistry, we are led to see why it is that our Indiana colleges 
are turning out so few chemists who are prepared to do independent re- 
search work of an enduring character. Apparently neither of the two 
major State colleges is prepared, in equipment. buildings or professorial 
staff, to give extensive or serious graduate courses in chemistry, leading 
beyond the degree of Master of Science. At Purdue we are, candidly, not 
attempting to do it. We have no organized graduate school and we have 
