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The storeroom attendants in the Chemical Laboratories are notorious for their inefficiency and discourtesy. It is bad enough to have to deal with these unpleasant people, but the absence of the smile may be forgiven if the required materials are promptly available. Too often they are not. And most of these sins of omission may be traced directly to the laziness or the stupidity of the men in charge of the supplies. The autocratic and abused power of the janitorial staff forces even instructors to accept their dirty dishware with unbecoming fear and trembling.

The Department of Chemistry has acquired a fine new set of buildings. But they are not organized to the best advantage of the students. The hampering blunders of the storeroom attendants are symbols of short-sighted policy. Their comparatively minor annoyance is but another indication of the reactionary attitude which holds sway in the Department and prevents it from achieving the preeminence which other Harvard faculties maintain.

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