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The Yeast Fellowship, the Flotation Fellowship, and 

 the Coke Fellowship have problems of most far reaching 

 character and are almost research institutes in them- 

 selves. Such fellowships are of the type called Multiple 

 Fellowships, in which the Senior Fellow is a man of un- 

 usually high research ability, in charge of a group of in- 

 vestigators for the solving of a group of problems. 



Fellowships like those on Synthetic Eesins, Synthetic 

 Acids, Organic Synthesis, and the Pratt Memorial Fel- 

 lowship are doing work of a pure-science research char- 

 acter, but often on a scale of which the organic chemist 

 rarely dreams. 



The stipend carried by the fellowships at Mellon Insti- 

 tute is far beyond that allowed in the usual college or uni- 

 versity. Since it is paid by manufacturers, accustomed 

 to a business man's scale of compensation for service per- 

 formed, instead of by Boards of Trustees doling out very 

 limited funds to needy students, there is a possibility of 

 attracting and holding men of University research char- 

 acter to the work of investigation. The advantage of 

 these fellowships is further increased by the fact that by 

 special arrangement with the donor, the Fellow may 

 spend a limited amount of his time in graduate study or 

 in teaching at the University of Pittsburgh. A number of 

 Fellows have received higher degrees in^this way. 



The writer will close this paper with the inscription he 

 often pondered upon during his year in Pittsburgh. It 

 is: ''This building is dedicated to the service of Ameri- 

 can Industry and to young men who destine their life 

 work to the industries ; the goal being ideal industry, 

 which will give to all broader opportunities for purpose- 

 ful lives." 



