EDITORIAL. S 



Omaha, Buffalo, Charleston, and St. Louis expositions. In each case 

 lie was chairman of the Government board, a position of much respon- 

 sibility and involving the administration of large funds. The success 

 not only of the Department's exhibits, but of the Government exhibit 

 as a whole at these expositions, was due in no small measure to his 

 efficient administration. 



The resolutions passed by the chiefs of the bureaus and divisions of 

 the Department at the time of his death are a fitting tribute to his 

 career and to the esteem in which he was held: 



"During a service of over seven years as Assistant Secretary. Colonel 

 Brigham, by his qualities of heart and head, deserved and gained the 

 confidence of all with whom he had official relations. In addition, he 

 won the persona] regard of all who knew him. The lasting achieve- 

 ments of his busy life, especially his services to agriculture, have won 

 for his name an enduring renown, no less marked than the love and 

 affection which follow him to the grave." 



In a recent address delivered by Prof. T, C. Chamberlin, of the 

 University of Chicago, a strong plea was made for the importance of 

 research, both from the standpoint of pure science and its influence 

 upon the progress of learning, and also from that of utilitarian ends. 

 Much of what was said has a direct bearing upon agricultural educa- 

 tion and research, and examples from the work of the experiment 

 stations were cited to enforce the speaker's deductions. 



The title of the address was The State University and Research/' 

 and the occasion of its delivery was the semicentennial jubilee of the 

 University of Wisconsin. Professor Chamberlin laid down the broad 

 proposition that '"the fundamental promotion of education lies in an 

 increase of the intellectual possessions of a people, and in the mental 

 activities and attitudes that grow out of the getting, the testing, and 

 the using of these possessions. . . . True ideas work incessantly and 

 unswervingly toward a destined end, while the thousand little waves 

 of merely personal influence cross one another's paths and work one 

 another's destruction. Determinate truth is radioactive, and sends 

 forth a constant stream of penetrating, illuminating emanations, to 

 which only the most leaden intellect is opaque. The discoverers of 

 great truths and the authors of great ideas are the great educators." 



He maintained that the education of the individual does not neces- 

 sarily secure real educational advancement, for if we convey to the 

 rising generation only such ideas as have been inherited, the summit- 

 level of education is not raised. ''There is only a Chinese dead-level 

 of ancestral propagation;" and, it may be added, this represented to a 

 considerable extent the condition of agricultural education up to within 

 quite 1 recent times. Some progress was made by voluntary research 



"Science, Aug. •">, 1904, p. 161. 



