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4. Give no fellowships, but, on the contrary, 

 charge high tuition. 



5 Live small sums to many individuals. 



6. Money distributed in small amounts is 

 wasted. Give at least S100.000 at a time. 



7. Assist unknown and struggling men in 

 small colleges. 



8. Make no grants except to tried and proved 

 investigators. 



9. Grant only for specific purposes and on 

 definite lines of work. 



10. Give the investigator perfect freedom 

 because he can not tell what he is aoing to dis. 

 cover beforehand, and would not be willing to 

 publish his intentions. 



11. Paysalaries of 810,000a yearto the leaders 

 of each science 



12. Expend no money on salaries, but supply 

 only apparatus and books. 



13. Publish a handsome series of quarto and 

 folio memoirs. 



14. Waste no money on big books and wide 

 margins. 



15. Grant degrees and award prizes. 



16. Grant no degrees and offer no prizes. 



This represents in somewhat exag- 

 gerated form the diversity in the views 

 of scientific men; and when there are 

 such differences of opinion, it is wise 

 to move slowly in adopting an irrevers- 

 ible policy. There are possibilities 

 that appeal to the imagination in an 

 institution that can play the part of 

 a special providence throughout the 

 country, scattering money just where 



it will bring forth fruit a hundredfold 

 and discovering the struggling genius 

 to give him the work he is best fitted 

 to do. But there are difficulties and 

 even dangers in such an undertaking. 

 Under its new president the Carnegie 

 Institution will be in a far better 

 position than hitherto to carry out a 

 policy of this kind. But it is prob- 

 able that the institution will ulti- 

 mately become one of the constituents 

 of a great national university. 



CONVOCATION "IVEEK AT THE 

 UNIVERSITY OF PENN- 

 SYLVANIA. 



The American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science held its first 

 meeting in Philadelphia in 1848. 

 After an interval of thirty-six years 

 it met for the second time in Phila- 

 delphia in 1884, when the attendance 

 was 1,261. This was the largest meet- 

 ing in the history of the association, 

 but the numbers were increased by 303 

 members of the British Association, 

 which met that year in Canada. At 

 the Boston meeting of 1880 there were 

 997 and at the Montreal meeting of 

 1882 there were 937 members in at- 



Houstox Hall. 



