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ablest professor of experimental and didactic chemistry at Hanover. He had 

 a most pleasing manner, was clear and explicit in his statements and always 

 interesting in his illustration and experiments. Indeed to Dr. Scott may be 

 ascribed the real introduction of chemical lectures and experiments as a 

 means of instruction. 



Under Professor Young, chemistry has assumed the dignity of a science 

 which demands even in a small college the entire time of at least one pro- 

 fessor. It is to be expected that in the near future, with its increasing funds, 

 Hanover will have a Professor of Chemistry devoted solely to this one study. 



Dr. Scott had a natural aptitude for scientific teaching. He perhaps 

 had not more training than Michael Farraday had. He had Farradaj'-'s 

 technique though never was given the opportunity^ for its development that 

 Farraday had. Dr. Scott came to Hanover in 1860 and remained until 1878. 

 When his son-in-law, Benjamin Harrison, became a United States Senator, 

 Dr. Scott was given a clerical position in the Pension Bureau. On my first 

 visit of any length of time to Washington in January, 1883, I called on Dr. 

 Scott at his office and talked over the old times of the laboratory at Hanover. 

 W^hen Benjamin Harrison became President of the United States Dr. Scott 

 was already a nonegenarian. One day, shortly after Mr. Harrison's inaugur- 

 ation. Dr. Scott appeared in my office in the Department of Agriculture 

 during the morning hours. I said, "Doctor, you are having a vacation today." 

 "Yes," he said, "I have been dismissed from the Public Service." He said 

 this quite solemnly and I, of course, was very much astonished that with a 

 father-in-law as President of the United States such an indignity should 

 have been heaped upon him; and then he went on, with a merry twinkle in 

 his eye, "I have been demoted to spend the rest of my days in the White 

 House." As in most cases of elderh- persons who stop an active life, leisure 

 did not agree with Dr. Scott's plan of existence. As might have been ex- 

 pected, he did not live through the Harrison administration. I consider 

 that Dr. Scott conferred great blessings on humanity by his long course of 

 teaching and especiallj' by his aptitude in adapting himself to teaching in 

 a most instructive and interesting way sciences in which he had had no special 

 training. 



The first professor of natural sciences in the State University was John 

 Hopkins Harvey. He was appointed a Professor of Mathematics in the 

 State Seminary, which later became the State University, in 1831. When 

 the State Seminary became the College of Indiana Professor Harvey was 

 elected Professor of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. He resigned this 

 position in 18.32 to accept the professorship of Mathematics and Astronomy 

 in Hanover College. In 1836 he was made Professor of Natural Philosoijhy. 

 Chemistry and Geology in Hanover College. 



One of the most illustrious of the Professors of the State University was 

 Theophilus A. Wylie. He was appointed Professor of Natural Philosophy 

 and Chemistry and began his duties in 1837. He left the Indiana University 



