November 23, 1906.] 



SCIENCE. 



651 



Raoult, Draper, Barker, Dewar, Prescott, 

 Ramsay, Remsen, Morley, Atwater, Clarke, 

 Drown, Baskerville, Cooke, Mallet, Gibbs, 

 Moissan, Mendeleeff, Meyer, Oswald and a 

 host of others. In quoting these names I 

 take no glory from the older chemists — 

 Lavoisier, Berzelius, Dalton, Dana and 

 their colleagues. 



Nearly all of this honored list who have 

 passed away were university men. Those 

 who are still with us are university men. 

 You chemists know what they have done 

 for the world's work; indeed, it would 

 seem to me an easier task to write of what 

 they have not accomplished rather than 

 what they have done. We need only look 

 at the marvelous achievements of Raoult 

 and Dalton in molecular and atomic chem- 

 istry, of Morley in the same field, of Hoff- 

 man and Perkin in the coal-tar derivatives, 

 of Ramsay 's researches on the new gases in 

 the atmosphere, of Dewar and his assistant, 

 Travers, in the liquefaction of gases and 

 other most valuable and interesting investi- 

 gations made by them. 



Chemistry and the university are to-day 

 inseparable and it is beyond the ken of 

 man to prophesy what discoveries these 

 men of your schools will bring to us in the 

 years to come. 



In the domain of mechanical engineer- 

 ing, structural design and kindred studies, 

 Old Lehigh stands as the peer of any insti- 

 tution in the land. This you may consider 

 as flattery or unjust praise from your 

 speaker, but the facts I have quoted in the 

 beginning of this address are surely evi- 

 dence enough to prove what I now say, and 

 in giving you this meed of praise I do not 

 wish to detract from the good work done 

 by your sister colleges east and west of the 

 AUeghanies. All are doing a noble share 

 in the engineering work of this busy era 

 of steel bridges, steel buildings, steel struc- 

 tural work of every conceivable shape and 



form; surely in this age of steel there is a 

 call for the university man such as there 

 never has been before and he has not been 

 found wanting. 



Text-books on engineering coming from 

 within the walls of Old Lehigh are works 

 of the highest standard, and your sister 

 colleges have not been slow to adopt them. 



Engineering is now so closely related to 

 all sciences that the astronomer, the physi- 

 cist, the chemist, the geologist, all must 

 come to him for help in their time of 

 trouble and he has not failed them. The 

 electrically driven locomotive, the wonder- 

 ful turbine engine, are coming to stay ; they 

 are the results of his handiwork— what 

 shall we look for next? 



Mathematics as the handmaiden of all 

 the studies I have enumerated, has a firm 

 foundation in our American institutions of 

 learning, Bartlett has well said that 'the 

 man endowed with the priceless boon of a 

 mathematical knowledge possesses the key 

 to the external universe,' I need add 

 nothing further, Bartlett 's saying may be 

 adopted as a maxim rather than a pos- 

 tulate, 



I have but few words to say of archi- 

 tecture, geology, biology and kindred 

 studies, for I have lingered too long in this 

 fairy land, in these workshops of the world, 

 to tell you what the university man has 

 done in and for them, but while geology 

 has long been taught in our schools of 

 higher learning, it is only of late years that 

 architecture has been taken up in this 

 country and made a study of the impor- 

 tance it should be, and that newest of all 

 studies, biology, is now making deserved 

 inroads into the curricula of the best col- 

 leges of the land. While it is the newest 

 of sciences, it seems to me that it opens up 

 one of the most important and valuable 

 lines of research in the whole realm of sci- 

 entific investigation because it is so inti- 



