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ship, one requiring B.S. degree or its equivalent the other a junior membership. Parsons is very much in favor of it so are some representatives of other sections. But A.A. Noyes, [[red underline]] R. Whitney, M.T. Bogert [[/red underline]] altho' representing the most desired members of our Society [[strikethrough]] are outspok [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] spoke strongly against any such change [[/red underline]] and the resolution was referred to individual report of each section by a large majority. Parsons thinks this new rule would stimulate some chemists who are not now members of our Society to join.
Then last came the announcement of the [[red underline]] changed attitude of Dr. W. H. Nichols and his United Dye & Chemical Co. [[/red underline]] and the report presented
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by the committee of Edgar F. Smith, Remsen, Venable and Theodore [[red underline]] Richards, to which Parsons, Horne, Herty and others object as being too mild. [[/red underline]] I succeeded in making the members feel that the dignity & tact of the A.C.S was at stake by not going into a roughhouse attitude.
[[red underline]] Whitney [[/red underline]] got up and said: "I do not know all the details of the situation nor do I desire to have discussed them in public but if our committee composed of such men as the four [[strikethrough]] pre [[/strikethrough]] recommends acceptance of this report, I am willing to accept it.
This had a very quieting influence and report was accepted and we got thru with our council meeting on record time 5:45 P.M and I feel much relieved as I