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washer, a laboratory assistant, an “ analyst” 
hanging on to the coat-tails of a chemical engi- 
neer, a technician “analyzing” urine from 
morn to midnight, a drug clerk handling 
chemicals, a coffee or tea “nose” specialist— 
all cogs in the chemical wheel are to-day 
classed as chemists together with the professor 
of chemistry, research and industrial chem- 
ists. The title “chemist” must be standard- 
ized. Those who by right of training and oc- 
cupation deserve this name should urge upon 
cur government to lay down definite stand- 
ards for the profession and place it in the 
same plane with medicine or law. An insti- 
tution’s diploma or an association’s member- 
ship or whatever else may be feasible in the 
national standardization, should represent the 
chemist’s license. Partial action in this di- 
rection has been inaugurated by the Chemical 
Warfare Service Section in classing men as 
“analysts” who received sufficient training in 
chemistry to enable them to carry on routine 
analyses under direction and as “ chemists” 
who have special training in any of the 
branches of chemistry. This classification is a 
step in the right direction. It was for the war 
program. Now let there be a complete classi- 
fication for the peace program. 
To conclude—chemistry has proven to be 
America’s bulwark of defense. In return, 
America must recognize all the more the indis- 
pensable service of the scholar, the thinker, the 
investigator of science, in national preserva- 
tion. May our new democratic age stimulate 
scientists in their search of truth not only for 
truth’s sake but for humanity’s sake in our 
universal brotherhood of man. 
I. Newton Kuce.Mass 
HowarD UNIVERSITY 
CHARLES RICHARD VAN HISE 
Tuer following minute has been voted by 
the board of regents of the University of 
Wisconsin : 
Dr. Charles Richard Van Hise, the president of 
the University of Wisconsin, departed this life 
November 19, 1918, after an unbroken connection 
of forty-four years with the institution, as under- 
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graduate, through all grades of the faculty, and as 
president for the past fifteen years. 
Nearly every living alumnus, every faculty mem- 
ber and executive officer has come into intimate 
personal contact with him during the long period 
of his connection with the university, and to know 
him was to love him, to serve with him a privilege, 
and to serve under him a benediction. 
Recognition of his genius, as a scientist, as an 
educator, and as an executive, comes to us from 
every quarter of the nation and civilized world. 
We would not here catalogue his virtues, his ex- 
cellences, nor his achievements in his many fields 
of intellectual and personal activity. We knew 
him as a friend, co-laborer and associate. The 
many hours we have spent with him are a price- 
less asset; his activities and his accomplishments 
are an inspiration to us and a call to better things. 
We shall miss him as a friend, counsellor and 
brother; we shall strive to be better for having 
known him, We mourn with the family, with the 
university, with the nation, and with the world 
over ‘his untimely passing. We deplore our loss, 
but we know that the world is richer for his having 
lived and served. 
The faculty of the University of Wisconsin 
has drawn up the following memorial resolu- 
tion in honor of President Van Hise: 
We, the faculty of the university, would pay our 
tribute of respect and love to our departed leader, 
President Charles R. Van Hise. His death has 
afflicted us with the deepest sense of public and 
personal loss. We rejoice, however, in the service 
that he rendered to his fellow men. He preached 
the gospel of service, and he practised it with in- 
sight and energy. His service was not the con- 
descension of the great to the humble, but the solic- 
itude of the elder brother for his brethren. To 
him the great object in life was to release the ca- 
pacities of men, to help them learn how to help 
themselves. 
His broad conception of the part that the uni- 
versity should have in this work of spiritual libera- 
tion was firmly grounded in respect for pure schol- 
arship, and his success in securing its fuller reali- 
zation is one of his titles to grateful remembrance. 
He had a democrat’s faith in the ability of the 
people of Wisconsin to recognize the worth of uni- 
versity training. No opposition, no doubts or 
fears, could shake his confidence in their unfalter- 
ing and full support of the university which sought 
to open to all a door to richer and nobler living. 
He was truly a democratic leader. He was 
