Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 259, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1917 — A Ramsay Memorial. [ARTICLE]

A Ramsay Memorial.

Mr. Asquith' has been selected as president of a committee of University College to arrange for a memorial to the late Sir William Ramsey. The memorial is to be not merely national, but international; and this is as It should be, for Sir William Ramsay was an international in more than one sense. His gifts were not only scientific, but covered a wide field of knowledge. He was, for instance, master of several languages, although he made light of the accomplishment# When he went to Stockholm in 1904 to receive the Nobel prize he surprised many of the scholars he met by his ability to speak any language that any one else happened to be speaking. "There’s nothing in it,” he said; “any waiter can do It.” This faculty placed him In touch with the scientific genius of the world, and contributed much to his success. —Westminster Gazette.