32 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN 



fittings nor furniture, and was used as a gymnasium. 

 Dr. Goessmann entered on his duties with zeal, devot- 

 ing himself to the improvement of the equipment for 

 both demonstration and research, and to the organiza- 

 tion of courses of lectures and laboratory instruction. 

 He not only organized and established this department 

 on a firm and enduring basis, laying the foundation 

 broad and deep, but from the first he stamped his in- 

 fluence and personality on the structural growth of the 

 College, and was a guiding and controlling spirit in 

 shaping its policy. The reputation which the institu- 

 tion attained, almost from the beginning, was in large 

 measure due to him. His lectures were not only in- 

 structive,, but inspiring, and not a few of his students 

 remember him with affection and respect as the most 

 stimulating influence in then* intellectual life. For 

 fifteen years he gave unaided all the instruction in 

 chemistry and chemical physics, both in the classroom 

 and the laboratory. It was not until 1884, two years 

 after the Experiment Station had been regularly organ- 

 ized, that an assistant professorship was established, 

 thus relieving him of much tutorial work and some 

 other college duties. He continued, however, to lec- 

 ture to the Senior Class on the chemistry of fertil- 

 izers, the commercial industries, and on organic 

 chemistry. 



Agassiz had insisted that there should be more than 

 one professor of chemistry, so that each should have 

 some time to make investigations; 'for believe me,' 

 he says, 'the professor who is exhausted by teaching 

 cannot even learn what others do to keep up with the 



