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iiig from scientific data. Our machinery, our 

 chemical processes or dyeworks, and a thousand 

 operations which it is not necessary to mention, are 

 all directly and innnediately connected with sci- 

 ence. You have to look among your workmen and 

 foremen for persons who shall intelligently grasp 

 the modifications, based upon science, which are 

 constantly being introduced into these industrial 

 processes, I do not mean that you want profes- 

 sional chemists, or physicists, or mathematicians, 

 or the like, but you want people sufficiently famil- 

 iar with the broad principles which underlie in- 

 dustrial operations to be able to adapt themselves to 

 new conditions. Such qualifications can only be 

 secured by a sort of scientific instruction which 

 occupies a midway place between those primary 

 notions given in the elementary schools and those 

 more advanced studies which would be carried out 

 in the technical schools. 



You are aware that, at present, a very large 

 machinery is in operation for the purpose of giving 

 this instruction. I don't refer merely to such work 

 as is being done at Owens College here, for exam- 

 ple, or at other local colleges. I allude to the 

 larger operations of the Science and iVrt Depart- 

 ment, with whicli I have been connected for a great 

 many years. I constantly hear a great many ob- 

 jections raised to the work of the Science and 

 Art Department. If you will allow me to say so, 

 my connection with that department — which, I am 



