Evening journal., 1918-06-20
SCHOLARSHIPS FOR
Student CHEMISTS
du Pont Company Also Pro-
vides Scholarships for De-
serving Young Men
DR.. REESE ANNOUNCES
GIFTS AT BANQUET

ATLANTIC CITY. n. j.. June 20
Eighteen fellowships and thirty-three
scholarships have been established for
students in chemistry at colleges and
universities throughout the country by
the dupont Company Of Wilmington.
The total value Of these will be 25,OOO,
the fellowships carrying $3.50 and the
scholarships $3.50 each for the coming
scholastic year.
This announcement was made here
last night by DR.. Charles /. Reese,
Chemical Director Of the DUPONT Com
pany, who was one Of the speakers at
a bangHest which closed the first an
nual~ sales convention Of the dupont
American Industries
The fellowships are distributed among
seventeen colleges and universities and
the scholarships 90 to thirty-one insti-
tutiOns Of learning scattered through
the country; every section from the
Atlantic to the Pacific. and from the
Canadian border TO Texas being in
cluded The fellOwships are for post
graduate work and will be established
in the institutions which have the most
advanced courses in chemistry. The
scholarships go &c members OF the
senior classes in institutions which pay
particular attention to chemical in
structiOn. The recipients Of these
awards, which are 20 be known as
dupont fell0wships" and dupont
scholarships" are 20 be selected by the
Institutions themselves, the only con-
ditlon made by the dupont Company
being that they shall go to students
who have devoted the major part Of
their time to chemistry.
DR.. Reese announced that every instl-
tuition TO which the offer had been made
had accepted and that in nearly every
case the president OF the college or
university concerned had not only eX-
pressed appreciation Of the offer. but
had shown a deep realization OF the
great importance OF encouraging work
along chemical lines
He said that the dupont Company had
decided to take this action because Of
the growing Importance Of the chemist
In the industries OF the world and be-
cause Of the scarcity OF trained men
due 10 the drafts made for the army,
and the remuherative offers TO men who
have not even finished their regular
chemical courses in college. He said
that there is hardly a big manufactur-
ing industry in existence which does
not need men 20 have taken advanced
courses in chemical work. He referred
20 the wonderful advantage Germany
was supposed TO have had on account
Of her extensive chemical and dye in
dustrles, when she turned her manu-
featuring establishments into munitl0n
factories and he added that the mere
presence Of the factories themselves was
not a matter OF supreme Importance,
but rather the fact that they also had
in their employ trained chemical or
ganizations which rallied 20 the sup
port OF the government. This war. he
said, has become IN a sense a chemical
war and the chemical organizations
which were maintained by these busi-
ness Industries were able to assist very
materially In its prosecution.
The demand for trained men. shown
by the abnormal situation Of the last
three years. was brought home TO the
dupont organization with the result
that these scholarships and fellowships
were decided upon as a means to supply
the need.