Editor Neil Gordon said, "The great response received during 1924 from Chemical Education inspires us to put forth our best efforts for 1925. This Journal has seemed to meet a need in both this country and abroad." As an example of the response from abroad, Gordon printed a letter from H. A. Peters, Chairman of the Section of Teachers of the Dutch Chemical Society. The letter began, "Some few days ago I received the September issue of the Journal of Chemical Education and I must say that I like it very much. It is just the sort of thing that I am seeking", and went on to volunteer to publicize the Journal to members of the Dutch Chemical Society.

In a paper titled, "A Plea for Rationally Co-ordinated Courses in Analytical Chemistry", P. H. M. P. Brinton of the University of Minnesota stated, "It is pretty generally admitted that students do not learn as much from our courses as we should like to have them learnand the widespread interest in these problems is evidence of the need for reform." Brinton argued that there was "too sharp a division between the courses in qualitative and quantitative analysis" and suggested that several authors (himself not included) collaborate to create coordinated textbooks that integrated the two subjects, eliminating much of the repetition that he found in existing qual and quant courses.

C. H. Stone, English High School, Boston, described a new high school course in chemistry that was intended for students who had taken one year of chemistry already, but who were not planning to go to college. Apparently there were enough students interested in chemistry, but not in post-secondary education, to make such a course worthwhile. The course concentrated on practical chemistry and the laboratory was its central factor.

Volume 25, Number 12

The Journal's cover was silver in color and contained birthday candles. Editor Norris Rakestraw noted that this issue completed 25 years of publication and thanked a number of persons who had contributed to the Journal during its first 25 years. Most important of these was Harvey F. Mack, who "personally kept the Journal solvent for a number of years", and whose photograph appears here.

In a companion piece immediately following the editorial, the Journal 's second editor, Otto Reinmuth, described Mack's contribution during the depression years of the 1930s: "Mr. Mack's stated reason for optimism-that no worthy project, honestly conceived, and vigorously prosecuted, could fail-struck me as extremely naïve. I used to have cold chills whenever I wondered what would happen to the Journal if someone should take the man aside and explain the facts of life to him." According to other reports at the time, Harvey Mack used his personal credit to back as much as $20,000 in unpaid print bills that the Journal had accumulated.

The series Chemical Education in American Institutions featured Hope College as representative of many primarily undergraduate institutions. Especially interesting was reference to a report titled, "Science and Public Policy, Manpower for Research" (U.S. Govt. Printing Office, 1947). During the years 1935 to 1945, "Hope College, Juniata College, Monmouth College, St. Olaf's College, and Oberlin College combined produced more candidates for the doctor's degree in chemistry than did Johns Hopkins University, Fordham University, Columbia University, Tulane University, and Syracuse University, all together." Similar statistics compiled since 1948 continue to reflect the importance of primarily undergraduate institutions in attracting students to careers in chemical research and education.

The Report of the New England Association of Chemistry Teachers described its 1948 summer conference, which was devoted to a subject that had been a major concern during the Journal 's first year: correlation of high-school and college chemistry courses. The conference concluded that a system of credit by examination would be most effective in integrating high-school and college courses.

Volume 50, Number 12

This last issue of the Journal's 50th year included recollections of two former editors, Norris Rakestraw and William Kieffer, and a paper by William G. Kessel titled, "The Beginning of the Journal and the Division of Chemical Education". The latter was excerpted from a much more detailed history of the Division, written upon the occasion of its 50th anniversary, which nearly coincides with that of this Journal. The Journal 's advertising manager, Frank Altschul Jr. listed Journal advertisers from the year of their first participation. Our first payment for an ad was from the Chemical Catalog Company of Chicago, which later became Reinhold Publishing Company.

On the occasion of the Journal 's 50th anniversary, Tom Lippincott's editorial raised the question of whether it had "made a contribution to chemistry, to teaching, learning, or understanding, to education in the broader sense?" His response to his own question was "If we were indulged a brief flight of fancy on this happy occasion, we would wish that readers might think of This Journal as a place wherein countless generative ideas, old and new, that form both the substance and the catalysts for chemical science and chemical thought are described with a freshness and excitement akin to that accompanying their discovery, and wherein a thousand great chemistry teachers of the past and present live and speak and teach and write."