Abstract

Presiding at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Society of Chemical Industry, held at Liverpool in July 1913, Professor Mars- ton Bogert of the United States delivered an interesting address on "the Chemical Industries and the Universities." Defining edu- cation as "the process of fitting the individual to take his pe and do his best in the life of his age and nation," he said that the properly trained chemical graduate is, in the vast majority of cases, a far more valuable man to a chemical concern than the employee who knows only mechanical details and has not had the benefit of any real scientific education. At first the latter may appear to greater advantage because of his familiarities with the processes involved, but he will be very speedily outstripped by the University man, given at all a similar initial endowment. One is likely to be a rule-of-thumb man whose actions are wholly determined by experience and who is completely lost when any- thing new or unexpected happens. The other is the more resource- ful and will seek the underlying cause of the difficulty and independently work out a remedy. Each has his place in the industrial life, but the scientifically trained man will rise to higher levels of usefulness. Manual skill is quite essential for a Univer- sity man."

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