Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-22
CHEMISTRY PRIZES
OPEN TO STUDENTS
Science and Pedagogy Slim
ulant Seen in Johns Hopkins
Fellowship Offer.
Nv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
q BALTIMORE. Md, February 22.-One
Of the richest prizes ever offered to
American undergraduates was laid be-
fore young students of chemistry
throughout the country today by Presi-
dent Frank j. Goodnow of the Johns
Hopkins University.
He announced the acceptance of gifts
providing for an unprecedented expert
ri1ent In education designed to train
young chemists of exceptional talents.
The program, including establishment
Of a new chair of chemical education
and a number of State fellowships,
students chosen to take the special
course, will be put into operation next
Fall on an experimental basis. It Is
expected to help I'LL the need for in
spring teachers, and II successful will
be made permanent with endowments
pledged by the donors of the expert
mental funds, which have been pro-
vided for five-year periods.
Fellowship Benefits.
Each student who is awarded one of
the fellowships will be given a flve-
year course of training, covering the
equivalent of one extra year to equip
him as a teacher. At the end, how
ever, he will be free to choose his own
career, in academic or industrial life.
This freedom of choice Is explained
by Dr. j. c. W. Frazer. chairman of
the chemistry staff at Johns Hopkins,
as a recognition of the need of modern
industry as we'll as the colleges and
universities for highly trained Scien-
| lists who are at the same time teachers
and leaders. 49, a4.
The new chair Of chemical education
has been provided by Francis p. Gar
van, president of the Chemical Founda-
ton Of New York. DR.. Neil e. Gordon,
Johns Hopkins graduate, former head
of the chemistry department of the
University Of Maryland and editor OF
the Journal of Chemical Education, has
been appointed to fill this chair.
Through fund provided by A. r. L.
| Dohme of Sharpe & Dohme, Baltimore,
the special students will be given an
| opportunity to come In personal con-
tact with leaders IN chemistry In Amer
| lea and abroad, who will be brought
here to lecture.
States Affected.
Fellowships thus far provided for in
clude: Indiana, the Ell Lilly Co. In
dianapolis; New Jersey. the j. T. Baker
Chemical Co., Phillipsburg; Ohio, the
Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.. Akron
Maryland, DR.. H. A. b. Dunning OF
Hynson, Westcott & Dunning, Balti-
more: Delaware, the Bill Raskoh
Foundation, Wilmington; Wisconsin
the Kewaunee Manufacturing Co.,
Kewaunee: Maine, the Brown Co., Port
land; New Hampshire, the Brown Co.,
Berlin, and New York, Francis p. Gar
van, New York. d
Each fellowship will be awarded by a
| State committee, and any chemistry
student who has had at least two years
of training in a college or university in
State where fellowship Is available
will be eligible to apply for 1t.
Exceptional aptitude for mastering the
increasingly difficult subject of chem
istry must, of course, be proved, DR.
Frazier points out. but the committees
will give at least equal consideration to
those rare elements of character and
personality which show clear promise
Of the rare gift Of the great teacher to
make his subject living, glowing, last
i ing experience in the minds Of his
pupils. -