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HISTORICAL SKETCH 65
sen ted the institution with twenty-two acres of land which, with
the addition of eight acres later, comprise the present campus. The
Flemings were also largely instrumental in providing the first building
to be erected on the new site, the present Throop Hall. In 1910,
under the presidency of Dr. James A. B. Scherer, the institute moved
to its new quarters. A few years earlier the elementary school had
been set up as a separate institution, the present Polytechnic Elementary
School; and by 1911 the normal school and the academy had
been discontinued.
For the first few years in its new location, Throop Polytechnic
Institute-or Throop College of Technology as it was called after
1913-gave degrees only in electrical, civil, and mechanical engineering.
Gradually, however, it was able to add to its objectives.
In 1913, Dr. A. A. Noyes, who was founder and director of the
Research Laboratory of Physical Chemistry at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and who had also served as president of that
institution, became associated on part-time with the College. In
1916 a chemical laboratory was assured. It was completed in 1917,
and instntction and research in chemistry and chemical engineering
were inaugurated under Dr. Noyes' direction. In that same year,
Dr. Robert A. Millikan, then professor of physics at the University
of Chicago, arranged to spend a part of each year at Throop, where,
as Director of Physical Research, he was to develop a program of
graduate work in physics.
The war necessitated a temporary diversion of energies. Numerous
members of the faculty went into service, and undergraduate instruction
was radically revised to meet the immediate needs of the national
emergency. With the close of the war, however, normal activities
were resumed, and in the next few years the institution entered on
the most rapid and consistently sustained phase of its development.
In 1919 Dr. Noyes resigned from the faculty of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology to give his whole time to Throop College.
In 1920 the name was changed to the California Institute of Technology.
In that same year, Dr. Scherer resigned because of ill health.