The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-17
Lawrence Brilliant With Decor
atiOns in COl0rs.
VAST CROWD ATTENDS.
DR.. Wiley Delivers a Lecture
on Chemistry.
Speeches, Receptions and Lunch
cons at Close.

S6uldllN6S OIL colleges ana UNIVERSITIES
arrived then, but the most of them are
expected this morning. President Had
ley of Yale, who will deliver the prin-
-clpal address, is to be here early, escort
ed by the University of Kansas and the
Yale alumni from Kansas City. The in
augural procession will be made up Of
regents, Representatives from other in
situations, faculty. alumni and all stu
dents now in attendance i'll the uniyer-
sity. 1t will move at $50 O'Clock to the
new natural history building, where the
installation VIII take place.
President Hadley, Chancellor Strong.
President A. c. Scott of the Oklahoma
Agricultural college and President Muir
lin of Baker university will deliver
speeches. In the. afternoon there will
be receptions and concerts. At night
luncheon will be given in the new mu-
scum The students have been given
three days holiday for the installation.
and some of them are giving their time
to decoratin the great hall in the mu
scum. where the exercises are to be
held Every college fraternity, literary
society and school class in the university
was given a space on the walls or col
umns which each might decorate as 1T
saw fit, and they have decorated.
THE DECORATIONS.
There is a variety of color and design
on the walls and columns that is with
out limit The dainty decorations of a
girls society is a background to the
tebrae of the school of medicine. Red,
green and yellow is the quiet combina-
ton of one school, and it is not the
widest in the building But young men
from Prof. Blake's department. have
strung thousand incandescent lamps
about the room, and it is hoped that
this mass of light will run the colors'
together. At any rate the effect is ba-
zarre enough to cause some hope it may
prove attractive.
Thursday afternoon DR.. F. c. Frank
lin and Prof. F. B. Davis spoke to the
visiting chemists DR. F'ranlxlin's sub
pject was Tonic Velocities in LIQUID
Ammonia" and Prof Davis spoke on
The formation and Reactions of the
Sfsourr Anodynes." But outside the Chem
lstry building there was little evidence
that the installation ceremonies had
really begun. Down on McCook field
the bleachers We're lined with sIudents
Watching the squad at work. block
away the captains signals could be
heard, and two elevenS worked up and
down the field. with a rest between
each trip. as heard as If they knew
nothing of thet holiday the Others 5Nvef G
having The crowd stayed until a man
OF authority walked up and down. say
ing: Secret practice begins at 8
o'clock. no scrimmage before secret
practice" The bleachers emptied slow
~, however. until the cry IS o'clock
came, and then there was a rush for
the gate. leaving the red sweatered Tren
and the coaches behind with their Sc
cret In the early night the moon was
bright. and the students We're out with
their yells, but they were orderly yells
and caused fears that something would
happen tomorrow DR.. Wiley chief
chemist of the, department of agricul-
ture, spoke in the chapel at $50 O'clock
He had been delayed by wreck.
DIR. WILEY'S ADDRESS.
In the course of his address, dedica-
tory of the new chemistry building at
hp nj ifxyr Of IN,
with the exercises today incident to the
formal installation of DR. Frank Strong
as chancellor, DR.. Harvey w. Wiley,
chief chemist of the United States de-
partment of agriculture, said: THE in
stallations of a new chemical laboratory
as an adjunct to university education.
while not unusual in our country is al
ways attended with interesting features.
In looking over the plans for this build.
Ing could not but notice that the best
features of modern laboratories with
which have been acquainted have been
incorporated. We have here a complete
structure designed for a specific purpose
built under the direction of those skill
ful and competent. and now it is ready
to be dedicated for the great purpose
for which it was designed
DR.. Wiley referred to the striking feat
ure of modern university education that
seeks to adapt physical and material
means to educational purposes. CAS- a fac
tor in the education of the youth chemis-
try may be considered from many distinct
points of view. The data which chemistry
has established are elements of a liberal
education. While the tendency nowadays
is toward specialization it is not necessary
in order to have the general knowledge
that comes from a study of chemistry to
be a. specialist in any sense of the word.
For the purpose of this address, it is not
necessary to dwell upon the particular
year part of the curriculum where
chemical studies should enter, but I have,
/ however very grave doubts of the wisdom
of teaching extensive courses of practical
chemistry in the high school. While not
neglecting nature lessons and the teach
ings of the explanation of the ordinary
phenomena with which we are surrounded.
4 it seems to me wiser to devote the period
of infancy and childhood and early youth
largely to learning English, Greek, Latin
and German The youth, who at 16, finds
himself ready for college with a practical
| knowledge of the languages mentioned.
has laid the cornerstone of a liberal edu-
cation. I would like. therefore, to see the
scientific training of our high schools con-
fined to the explanation of common phe-
nomena and not include any expensive
time-consuEling, and exclusive laboratory
practice.
Chemistry. plays, in the second place, an
important role as a help in the study of
other sciences. Since it enters as an ele-
ment into many other sciences, it seems
to me that for scientific purposes, or, in
other words, instruction in scientific spe-
cialties. chemistry should be practically
the first science studied
Dr.. Wiley reviewed rapidly. the part
chemistry PLAYS in the study of the other
sciences and drew the conclusion that the
/ place il the university curriculum for
chemistry must always be a capital one.
This necessity has been recognized from
the very first in the higher education in
/ this country, showing the Importance of
the study in the role of training. not only
as a means of a liberal education. but also
an adjunct to other scientific professions
he said. There is no other science in my
mind which holds the place in the higher
/ universities and graduate schools which
1 chemistry holds Tt may be thought by
some that the hard and cold facts of A
science like chemistry may have a tenden-
cy TO repress the Imagination and arrest
1 the DEVELOPMENT of those faculties in the
4 mind which create r1Qetr~v. romance and