Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-14
Building Beautiful Memorial.

The women's campus. which is on the
other side Of Euclid avenue, is not yet
so crowded, although it also needs more
room, especially since the location of
large, new, beautiful building OF Tudor
esque design, which is now being erected
by Samuel Mather and his children as
memorial TO his late wife and their
mother, Flora Stone Mather The build
ing Is TO be both administrative and cdu-
cational, containing offices on the ground
floor for the president, the dean and pro-
fessorS, with common faculty room and
an assembly room for the students. Upon
the upper floor will be three recitation
rooms each for mathematics and Latin
five each for French and science, four
for German and two for Greek.
II will he imposing structure. with
a tower eighty feet high and sixty feet
square, and at each corner octagon
turret nine feet in diameter. The build
ing proper will he three stories high, OF
cut stone and special brown brick.
On the campus of Adelbert College was
dedicated today a memorial chapel erect
| ed by Mrs John Hay and her sister, the
late Mrs. Mather. as 4 monument to their
| father, the late Amasa Stone. 1t is con-
| sidered one of the most perfect specimens
| of decorated Gothic in America.
A new chemical laboratory has recently
| been completed. and was opened for the
| first time during the past year. IT con-
tainS Il series OF fnO0el laboratories ana
| lecture rooms for the chemical depart
| ment and also for the department of
| geology. and was erected by subscriptions
| from the Chamberlain family Of Cleve-
| land. J. il. Wade, Charles F. Brush and
| other friends and admirers Of DR.. Edward
| Williams Morley. who was professor of
chemistry here for more than forty years.
and Is now enjoying well deserved rest
and honors at West Hartford, Conn.
Prof. Morley IS, perhaps, the most dis
tingushed chemist In the country and one
of the three or four most distinguished in
the world. He was born in Newark. N. j..
in 1888 graduated at Williams College in
1860, came to Western Reserve In 1853
and remained until 1906, when he retired
and went on the emeritus list. He has
probably received more honOrs and MARKS
of distinction than any other American
chemist. In 1:0S the Royal Society of
England bestowed upon him the Davy
medal for his contributions to the science
of chemistry.
High Honor for Scientists.
1t is the highest distinction that can
be conferred upon a devotee OF that
branch of science; it is named in honor
of Sir Humphrey Davey. and is voted
only for professional achievements of the
Highest Importance. Morley is a member
of the National Academy, which is sup
posed to include the first 100 men in sci
ence He is either an active an hon
orary member of nearly all the learned
societies in Europe and America and has
been great teacher as we'll as q great
discoyerer. The impress of his character
and instruction has been more notable
and more lasting upon the alumni OF
Western Reserve than that OF any other
member of the faculty during the eighty
five years of its existence excepting the
late Nathan F. Seymour
In 1s11-1S Prof. Morley began to in
vestigate the cause of the variation of
the amount Of oxygen in the atmosphere
and for that purpose designed an APP
paratus by which air can be analysed.
He also invented all apparatus by which
gas can be analysed, and those instr,,-
nents are now in use by chemists
throughout the world. His discoveries