The Research Chemist, Mankind's Devoted and Indispensable Servant.

"TAKE interest, I implore you, in those sacred dwellings which one designates by the expressive term Laboratories. Demand that they be multiplied, that they be adorned. These are the temples of the future-temples of wellbeing and of happiness. There it is that humanity grows greater, stronger, better." So spoke the immortal Pasteur, and I tender my warmest felicitations and congratulations to Trinity College and her friends on the noble way in which they have responded to that call by the erection of this splendid new Chemistry Building. I am confident that you all feel as I do, that colleges and other educational institutions exist primarily for service-to the community in which they happen to be located, to the state, the nation and the world. Not infrequently, the public as well as the students get a somewhat distorted perspective of the relative importance of a college's manifold activities, in living up to this ideal of service and in meeting the obligations and responsibilities it imposes. There can be, it seems to me, but one order in which to arrange the more obvious of these duties. First and foremost comes the making of great citizens and courageous leaders, of sterling character and high ideals, never more needed by our country than now. The institution that fails to keep this primary purpose always before it voluntarily sacrifices its birthright and is unworthy of support. As Edwin Markham so admirably expresses it: We all are blind until we see That in the human plan Nothing is worth the making if It does not make a man.