SCIENCE: 

 HANDMAIDEN 

 OF FREEDOM 



DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER 



The White House 



IT IS a great privilege to be present at this 

 meeting with so many Americans actively interested in basic 

 science. Equally it is for me a unique experience. I have no 

 professional competence in searching out nature's secrets and 

 out of my own knowledge I can make no professional sugges- 

 tions, on the substance of science, to which you could possibly 

 accord the slightest validity. 



Nevertheless, I hope that in a fairly long life, punctuated 

 here and there by promotions of various types, that I have not 

 reached the state of exalted position and complete uselessness 

 that was achieved by one of the hunting dogs I heard about, 

 trained by a northern woodsman. Their master, who had long 

 enjoyed a warm acquaintanceship with a university commu- 

 nity, had the habit of naming his dogs for faculty members 

 that he admired. But when a few wives became a little indig- 

 nant over the practice, he decided to name his dogs for various 

 academic ranks — instructor, assistant, and professor, and so on. 



One hunting season, a man from Chicago hired for two 

 dollars and a half a day a dog he liked very much. The follow- 



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