xx THE LIFE AND CHARACTER 



trical Association. He received the honorary degree of Doc- 

 tor of Science from Union College in 1911. 



During the twenty-nine years between his graduation and 

 his death, Morris Loeb published thirty papers, reviews, 

 and essays. Many of these depended upon experimental work 

 carried out at the universities in Berlin, Heidelberg, Leipzig, 

 Worcester, and New York, or in the private laboratories 

 which he himself established, after his retirement from active 

 teaching, in New York and on his beautiful country estate 

 at Sea Bright, New Jersey. For the reasons already set 

 forth, the extent and scope of his experimental researches 

 were far less than he wished; but, even so, the work forms a 

 sum total of which any one might be proud. 



His investigations dealt with a wide variety of topics and 

 showed a steadily increasing desire to penetrate further into 

 the fundamental mysteries of the nature and mechanism of 

 chemical reaction. To those not conversant with the subject 

 it would be impossible here to explain the purport of these 

 investigations, and to those familiar with its details the 

 papers speak for themselves. No one can turn the pages 

 without the conviction that this work was carried out with 

 the earnest desire, which marks the sincere man of science, 

 to discover the truth and nothing but the truth. 



Morris Loeb's vivid interest in the advance of science did 

 not preclude an intelligent appreciation of achievement in 

 other fields of human activity. He was deeply interested in 

 music and art, and was one of the founders and endowers 

 of the Betty Loeb Musical Foundation. Himself a teacher 

 for years, he was greatly interested in all educational causes. 

 For several years he was a director of the Educational Alli- 

 ance, and at the time of his death he was a member of the 

 Board of Education of New York City and president of the 

 Hebrew Technical Institute. 



