Pratt Institute - Prattonia Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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P R A T r O X I A CHARLES MORSE ALLEN To Charles Morse Allen, chemist, teacher, friend, whose life mid icork alicays ivill he an inspiration to Pratt students, this hook is dedicated. (10

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P K A T r O N I A BIOGRAPHY HARLES MORSE ALLEN was the son of Dr. C v.u- vs F. Allen, a - Methodist minister and first president ot the L niversity of L ine. He prepared for college at Kents Hill Seminary. Laine, and then entered VVesleyaii L ' niversity, where he graduated with high honors, a memher of the Phi Heta Kappa, in lSiS2. He then taught Natural Science at Wyoming Seminary, Pennsylvania, until 1889, when he first became affili- ated with Pratt Institute as Instructor of Chemistr and Physics in Pratt institute Technical High School and Science and Technology Department. At this time Pratt Institute was in its infancy, and to Mr. Allen was assigned the task of shaping the first course in Chemistry. In carr ing out this task Mr. Allen was surrounded with innumerable difficulties that required experimentation, perseverance, patience and, above all else, untir- ing effort. The severe strain under which Mr. Allen had been laboring in time began to assert it.self, and he was, therefore, accorded a year ' s lea e of absence, which he passed in Europe as a graduate student in Chemistry and Research at Dresden and Zurich Polytechnical Institutes. Returning, he again entered into the life of the Institute, bringing with him a we.ilth ot new knowledge and practises for the Chemistry Department. The development of the Institute continued and in a scientific age like this, when the limits of know ledge are being extended so rapidly, new ideas had to be isualized and realized. Mr. Allen ' s isions in this direction were finally realized in the erection of the Chemistry Huilding and an enlargement of the work to meet the needs of students in Industrial Chemical Engineering. A true gentleman, a lo er of athletics, Mr. Allen is beloved and respected by all who know him. His life and his hopes are with the Institute. His earl return to perfect health was the hope and expectation of all Pratt students, th.it he might once more gicct us .-md cheer us on our wa -. [11 1