Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-23

our case. He suggested that we make the
grand tour of the buildings, seeing Johns
Hopkins with our own eyes. So, provided
with a sheaf Of cards of introduction, we
were bowling ourselves out, when Thorn
asina, hitherto ~becomingly silent, raised her
voice. 81 believe" she said distinctly,
that your most distinguished product is
Richard Harding Davis"
The president strangled a smile, murmur-
ing something courteous about the point OF
view" bolted into the passage to hide
my confusion. Richard Harding Davis in
deed! Shades of Johns Hopkins!
The charge of the architectural baroness
we retracted in the shining oaken cor
ridors Of Mccoy hall, newest and finest OF
university buildings. We caught a glimpse
en- route of the leonine head of Prof. Paul
Haupt Of Polychrome bible fame. Thomasina
said she never had supposed he was real.
Through literature and language semi
naries," big audience halls, and splendid
reading rooms, we prowled, and so came
again to the street, and over the way, to
the Chemical laboratory.
The professor who showed us through
said it was not d show laboratory; and per-
haps from the STANDPOINT Of pure beauty 1t
was not. But light, air, working space,
water power, and electricity were un-
stinted. AS for apparatus they haye every
thing that's to be bought, and also some
that isn't for the machin shops are by no
means the least important part of the uni
versity.
Thomasina, whose idea Of chemical ex
periments was confined to brief operations
ending in a pop and a mess, was over
awed by the scope and seriousness Of the
work going on in dozens of little private
laboratories, where graduate students were
industriously transforming themselves into
Phi. DIS. The infinite patience which keeps
a man pegging away for a twelve-month
upon one circumscribed investigation, with
the chance tina in the end they may write
over against his work. Results purely
negative"-was beyond her ken. l am afraid
she joggled out of a half hours work
Phi. d., who doing delicate chemical weigh
ing, determining thousandths of a gran
with the help of a beautiful balance and
little hsh-scales for weights which woulC
be disqualified for immediate use by thu
moisture of your fnger-tip. He gravel.
took the temperature and consulted thu
before he went to work, pro
ceedings which we were inclined to regarC
as a huge joke. But il seems he mean
1t, there being a difference between Gull
| nary and chemical standards of exactness
Our guide told us that many a time whel
! he had important experiments in hand h
had worked with the balances through tn
: dead Of night, till the clock, striking -four
: set in motion again the rumbling city carts
. sending disconcerting vibrations through hi
: delicate instrument, and putting a perio
D to exact work. That's the price John
g Hopkins pays for her city site.
We said We would like to see some praC
teal results Of so much pure science an
= to know what becomes of the pure scieI
= lists turned out by Johns Hopkins ever
year. In response they show ed us a seri'
Il Of books full OF samples Of beautiful rail-
= bow hued cloth. Those eoloTs, or rath'
g the dyes which make them, they said, al
$ the result of the sweat of the chemist
Is brains. They mean the most abstruse mel
W tai operations, the most strenuous Jul
CLING with the relative geometric position
,r OF unthinkable atoms in space. The b
lie German dyers have in their employ do
e ems Of illustrious doctors OF philosopl
Of who think in c%olors, determining by the
d. Vaccinations with coal tar the hues
n which society shall array itself from ge
T. GRAFTON to generation. That is one Of I
many commercial fields open to the tn
a ~oretical chemist Most Johns Hopki
err men, however, go to satisfy the deman