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...service of his predecessor, Republican Walter Jodok Kohler, which Phil La Follette enjoyed was the State Emergency Board, composed of the Governor and the finance committee chairmen of the two legislative houses. In the closing days of Mr. La Follette's term, the State Supreme Court padlocked, in the State treasury, some $4,000,000 which this board was about to dole out to Civil War veterans and the teachers' retirement fund. This would have left the State treasury virtually bare when the new Governor took office...
Chemistry 5 on the Carbon Compounds has built its success on the late Professor Kohler's lectures. The lab work is well run, though, and it will still be a good course...
...retiring nature was far from a result of shyness, but sprang rather from a sense of the dignity of the scientific life and a natural distrust of confabs, which he regarded as a waste of time. Emerson's observation about a better mousetrap was particularly applicable to Professor Kohler, for although he forced himself on nobody, his reputation for sagacity and good judgment caused chemists the world over to beat a path to the door of his office for advice on technical matters, academic appointments, or personal affairs...
...King," as Kohler was known to two generations of students, was above all a stimulating and sympathetic teacher--sympathetic especially to the needs and problems of the beginner. Kohler-trained chemists throughout the country will carry on the teaching tradition which he established at Harvard...
...funeral of Elmer Peter Kohler, Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry, who died Tuesday morning, will be held at three o'clock today in Memorial Church. All chemistry laboratories will be closed this afternoon to honor his memory...