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...meeting last night of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Dean Wright of the Graduate School presided. Addresses were made by Professor C. H. Toy, Professor William Ostwald and President Eliot...
...next speaker of the evening was Professor Ostwald. He briefly explained the great development of teaching, which has recently occurred. Professors, instead of the old system of oral lectures, occasionally use the co-operation of their best students in advanced subjects. Modern universities employ individual laboratories and individual teaching. In conclusion Professor Ostwald said that a freshman in college is entering one of the happiest periods of his life, since for the first time he can exercise power with perfect freedom...
...GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. Meeting of members of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. An address will be made by Professor Crawford H. Toy on "Ethical Influences in University Life." Addresses will also be made by President Eliot and Professor William Ostwald of the University of Leipzig. Faculty Room, University 5, 8 P. M. Open to Graduate Students, Officers of Instruction and Government, and invited guests...
Owing to the limited capacity of the Boylston Hall laboratory and owing to the greater number of students taking chemistry this year, it has been found necessary to move Chemistry 30, the course to be given by Professor Ostwald, to the upper floor of Dane Hall, which has lately been transformed into a chemical laboratory...
Professor Ostwald is regarded as one of the founders of the modern science of physical chemistry and he has achieved a position of the highest rank in the scientific world, not only as an investigator and thinker, but also as a reformer, organizer, and teacher in the field of natural science. With J. H. van't Hoff, who received the degree of LL.D., from Harvard in 1901, Ostwald founded in 1887 the Zeitschrift fur physikalische Chemie, and in 1901 the Annalen der Naturphilosophie. In 1904 he gave the Faraday Lecture before the Royal Society. He has been a prolific...