NOVEMBEE 7, 1919] 



SCIENCE 



427 



That tlie department of chemistry will as- 

 sign a "fellow," who shall have received his 

 bachelor's degree, to the problem; this fellow 

 to devote from half to full time to the prob- 

 lem and the balance to assistant work in the 

 department of chemistry. 



That the fellow shall be paid (about) $800 

 per year to be drawn from the " fellowship " 

 fund and the college funds in proportion to 

 the amount of time he shall spend on each. 



That the work of the fellowship shall be 

 considered as legitimate material upon recom- 

 mendation of the department staff for a 

 thesis for the degree of Master of Science, 

 and in special cases for the degree of Doctor 

 of Philosophy, the fellow having completed 

 the other requisite requirements as of credits, 

 languages, residence, etc. 



That (about) 10 per cent, of the fellowship 

 fund shall be set aside for equipment, chem- 

 icals, traveling expenses, etc. 



That the several problems presented shall 

 be under the inunediate direction of the 

 department member who represents that 

 branch of the science, or of a director of 

 industrial research and head of the division 

 of industrial chemistry. 



That the regular salary of each department 

 member who has fellowships under his super- 

 vision shall be augmented by a speciiied sum 

 to be drawn from the fellowship fund. 



That fellows engaged upon industrial prob- 

 lems shall not be charged laboratory fees, or 

 breakage fees, nor shall there be any charges 

 relative to their procurement of any ad- 

 vanced degree. 



That department members will not accept 

 any personal propositions which might legit- 

 imately become a department fellowship. 



The scheme as developed should relieve 

 much of the aforementioned difficulties and 

 " diseases." 



The higher salary paid assistants would 

 create a demand and a competition among 

 men for the positions. High-class men may 

 be selected. These men, being holders of at 

 least the bachelor's degree, will be available 

 for assistant work of a high order, such as 

 will relieve the professors of a vast amoimt 

 of responsibility and time spent in the lab- 



oratory and in preparation. This alone would 

 often cut half of the time from the pro- 

 fessor's schedule, thus enabling him to improve 

 his courses by giving them the proper amount 

 of reflection and applying with deliberation 

 the principles of pedagogy. 



It will provide a suitable source of outlet 

 for the research needs of the professor, inas- 

 much as he is to be the director of several 

 fellowships. The responsibility for their suc- 

 cess will rest primarily upon his shoulders, 

 although the major portion of the laboratory 

 work connected with them will be performed 

 by others. He will thus have incentive to 

 keep " alive," and the spirit of competition 

 and production and contact with the outside 

 world of industry will make him more keenly 

 appreciative of his function as a teacher of 

 a coming generation of chemists. 



The college will be granting advanced 

 degrees yearly to its fellows, and these are 

 bound to create a reputation for the college 

 in their respective fields of investigation 

 which will make for its recognition and 

 success. 



The increase in the department personnel 

 due to many assistants will decrease the work 

 and responsibility of each professor, thus pro- 

 viding the time in which he may study and 

 work upon his fellowship problems, and his 

 salary will be justly augmented by inspiring 

 work performed in working hours rather than 

 by depressing analytical procedures performed 

 at night or at the expense of college courses. 

 He will not then feel the need of an apology 

 for the profession of his choice. In brief, 

 the college and its teaching staff in chemistry 

 will have much to gain and nothing to lose 

 by the adoption of a system of cooperation 

 with industry in chemical research. 



Egbert H. Bogue 



Pittsburgh, Pa. 



THE DIGESTIBILITY OF THE BRANNY 

 COATS OF WHEAT 



There is one phase of the recurrent sub- 

 ject of the digestibility of flours containing 

 more or less of the branny portion of wheat 

 that has not been brought out in the dis- 



