rapidly growing science, and all the while reaching toward a maturity of experience and judgment-these are a vital part of a successful campaign in chemical education. Can any other agency supply this phase of training more effectively than an Institute of Chemical Education? Until such an agency can be brought into full operation, i t is suggested that in each state there be established a Service Bureau for teachers of chemistry, to which may be referred some of the more pressing problems of the isolated teacher.

There are many tasks to be undertaken and these will require the com- bined effort of all who are interested in the cause of chemical educatibn. Let us undertake the work with enthusiasm, encouraged by the success of the past, fortified by the high regard in which chemical education is held and fnlly aware of such dangers as those of over-satisfaction with our own progress, over-standardization in our methods of work and over-organiza- tion in the machinery which we use.

I t is impossible in a few brief pages to summarize all the splendid sugges- tions which have been made by our colleagues in chemical education. Permit me, after this highly unsatisfactory effort a t bringing together the widely divergent opinions which have been expressed, to suggest as our present motto the slogan: "Hats off for the accomplishments of the past; coats off for the tasks of the present and the future."

COLLEGE ESSAY PRIZE WINNERS

Mr. Paul Smith, Secretary of the Committee on Essay of the A. C. S., announces the following winners for 1926-27 in the prize essay contest for university and college freshmen:

"The Relation of Chemistry to Health and Disease,'' Miss Paula M. Horn, State University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.

"The Relation of Chemistry to the Enrichment of Life," S. N. Alex- ander, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Okla.

"The Relation of Chemistry to Agriculture," Mr. Caryl Parker Haskins, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.

"The Relation of Chemistry to National Defense," Mr. Culbert Rutenber, Georgetown College, Georgetown, Ky.

"The Relation of Chemistry to the Home," Miss Catherine D. Barns- ley, University of Maryland, College Park, Md.

"The Relation of Chemistry to the Development of an Industry or a Resource of the United States," Miss Gracia Greenhill, Goucher College, Baltimore, Md.