Swarthmore College - Halcyon Yearbook (Swarthmore, PA)

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o TIKI IS JHJALCY©- ©F 19119 C emistr? an6 (Ttyemtcal Cngitteerirt Gellert Alleman, B.S., Ph.D. (Johns Hop- kins), Professor of Chemistry. H. Jermain M. Creigiiton, B.A., M.A., M.Sc, D.Sc. (Zurich), Assistant Professor of Chemistry. T. Russell Hull. A.B., Instructor. I ' KOFESSnH IJELLEKT ALLEMAN The Department of Chemistry has for some years held a very enviable po- sition at Swarthmore. It has always its full quota of students and the demand for its graduates is always greater than the supply. Dr. Alleman has developed the department to such an extent that a grad- uate is practically certain of success. Large industrial corporations in the vicinity often write to the department asking for a man for a certain position and leaving the choice to the discretion of Dr. Alleman. Upperclassmen are often offered enticing positions to leave college before graduation. One course, general inorganic chemistry, is very popular and at the begin- ning of every year there are several students who apply too late. The majors in this department are fortunate in that they are continually in contact with men who know their subject and are able to explain to stu- dents questions which arise in laboratory work. Twenty-tzvo

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tm: Halcto: o OF 1919 Economics anb Caw PROFESSOR LOUIS X. ROBIXSOX Louis N. Robinson, A.B., Ph.D. (Cornell), Professor of Economics. Caroline H. Robinson, A.B., A.M., Assistant in Economics. Howard Cooper Johnson, B.L., LL.B., Lec- turer in Laic. Xo one has better described Political Economy, or Economics as the science has come to be called, than the late Alfred Marshall of England. I would like to think that the courses offered in the Department of Economics at Swarthmore are in keeping with his high conception of the science which he defines in the following paragraph, quoted from his Principles of Economics : Thus it (Economics) is on the one side a study of wealth, and on the other, and more important side, a part of the study of man. For man ' s char- acter has been moulded by his every-day work, and the material resources which he thereby procures, more than by any other influence unless it be that of his religious ideals; and the two great forming agencies of the world ' s history have been the religious and the economic. Here and there the ardour of the military or the artistic spirit has been for awhile predominant: but re- ligious and economic influences have nowhere been displaced from the front rank even for a time : and they have nearly always been more important than all the others put together. Religious motives are more intense than economic ; but their direct action seldom extends over so large a part of life. For the business by which a person earns a livelihood generally fills his thoughts dur- ing by far the greater part of those hours in which his mind is at its best ; during them his character is being formed by the way in which he uses his faculties in his work, by the thoughts and the feelings which it suggests, and by his relation to his associates in work, his employers, or his employees. Twenty-four