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tives, elects to be a worker in science he is not thereby ab- 

 solved from the duties and privileges of being human. He 

 must work out an adjustment between the claims upon 

 his life by his science, a proverbially jealous and exacting 

 mistress, and those of the rest of the world, including not 

 only deans, committees, commissioners, directors, boards, 

 foundations and other great cosmic elements, but also 

 cooks, maids, nurses, children, and most important of all, 

 his wife. If our graduate student, in whose behalf we are 

 taking all this trouble, turns out to amount to much he 

 will sooner or later receive offers for the purchase of his 

 soul. Such offers will be made by those skilled in the traf- 

 fic and they will be tempting. Shall we not be derelict in 

 our job of helping our student to get his training for life 

 if we do not furnish him some insight into what wis- 

 dom is available about the making of these necessary 

 adjustments between scientific research and the rest of 

 life?" 



We are now faced with the problem of selecting a group 

 of scientists who would come to this institute and who 

 would labor to advance our knowledge of microbes. There 

 are, of course, those who have already established them- 

 selves, who have already demonstrated their ability to con- 

 tribute to this search for the unknown. There are, on the 

 other hand, those who are still young and inexperienced, 

 but who, given the proper opportunity, will develop into 

 brilliant investigators. But how is one to select the latter? 

 We can only think of a most delightful conversation that 

 took place in 1813 between Sir Humphrey Davy and his 

 friend Pepys: 'Tepys, what am I to do? Here is a letter 

 from a young man named Faraday. He has been attending 

 my lectures, and wants me to give him employment at the 

 Royal Institute — what can I do?" "Do?," said Pepys, "put 

 him to wash bottles; if he refuses he is good for nothing." 

 "No, no," replied Davy, "we must try him with something 

 better than that." 



