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other systems and to their many respective units. Thus the 

 word and the works supplement each other, and thereby ena- 

 ble us to understand the Author of nature more completely 

 and to realize that the more we know of the material universe 

 the greater will be our appreciation of the mind that formed it. 



Science-study disciplines all the faculties of the mind in a 

 healthy and sane way; trains the brain to plan and the hand 

 to execute; furnishes excellent material for logical and philo- 

 sophical thoughts ; supplies literature with live themes, calling 

 for its wisest and most penetrating expressions; teaches a 

 rigid elimination of self from both its data and conclusions, 

 and as great a love for accuracy in statement as in its records. 



The growth of scientific study may be seen from the follow- 

 ing charts : 



Number 1 shows the increase in our agricultural and me- 

 chanical colleges, including students and faculties. 



Number 2 shows the increase in the number and the attend- 

 ance of the manual-training schools of the United States of 

 high-school grade and above. The first school of this charac- 

 ter in our country was opened at St. Louis in 1880. 



Number 3 shows the growth of all gifts to colleges and uni- 

 versities for endowment, buildings and equipments, also the 

 total gifts which the donor has directed to be used for scien- 

 tific purposes, including the per cent, of such scientific gifts 

 of all the donations for school purposes. (This data has been 

 obtained from the weekly reports in Science.) 



Number 4 shows the per cent, of science teachers of the 

 total faculty of Kansas University and of Ottawa University, 

 the first being a representative state university and the other 

 a representative denominational institution. This shows the 

 average growth of the sciences in the colleges and universities 

 of our country. 



During the past nine years, 47.8 per cent, of the total doc- 

 torates conferred in our country have been given for work in 

 science. When we call to mind that this represents a meas- 

 ure of the creative scholarship of our country, the value of 

 the work of the scientist is again made evident. The in- 

 creased appropriations by our government, from $2,038,127, 

 in 1894, to $7,112,690, in 1906, for purely scientific work, 

 shows something of the appreciation in which scientific work 

 is held. 



From the reports of the commissioner of education we find 



