Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Professor Theodore William Richards '86, director of the Wolcott Gibbs Memorial Laboratory at the University, emphasized, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday, the importance of chemists in war and peace. While laying great stress on the overwhelming importance of bending all energies to a successful prosecution of the war, he refuted the conception that chemistry is primarily a war science, gave an idea of the great benefit it can be to humanity, and spoke of the need for chemists today and in the future. Professor Richards said...
...importance of chemistry in war is so obvious to anyone who reads the newspapers that comment is unnecessary. But it must be remembered that chemistry is of even more value in peace than it is in war. America is gradually awakening to the consciousness that, because everything is composed of 'chemicals' and depends for its properties upon its chemical nature, chemistry enters more or less into everything. People are beginning to realize that manufactures must be fostered, and also that chemical knowledge must be applied in many other industries not primarily of a chemical nature...
...light of what I have said, it is obvious that whether the war is to continue or we are to have, as we all hope, a victorious peace in the near future, America will need many chemists. There are not half enough in the country now for our varied needs, and the demand for them is not likely to decrease...
...military plans are coming thick and fast these days. On the heels of the University's announcement of a summer camp, the War Department has brought before the General Staff a plan by which all college R. O. T. C. men would spend a month as privates in the National Army. In its present form this plan would not have to conflict with the summer camp of the college R. O. T. C.'s as the men would be sent to the cantonments only from June 1 to July 1. The University's plans, at any rate, would...
...coming season, emphasized the necessity of conducting the practice as rigidly as in former years, with faithful observance of training rules and absolute attendance at practice. He pointed out the fact that if crew work is to continue on a firm basis during the period of the war, it must be put on that basis in this, its trial year; that to do this all men must put their efforts into the practice as though normal conditions existed. He stated that no formal training rules had yet been laid down and that no training table would probably be established...