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study of science is to arouse an intense intellectual curiosity 

 in the many sides of human activity. The lack of such an in- 

 terest is, I find, another of the common faults of our young 

 people. The printed page means nothing but a printed page; 

 something to be gotten through with and out of the way. The 

 wider aspects of the subjects are meaningless. This ought not 

 so to be. Take, for instance, the fields of natural history, 

 geology, chemistry and physics ; when you consider them from 

 the scientific, economic, historical and human side, there is 

 little of life they do not touch and illustrate. 



That a thorough sicentific training does develop men of the 

 broadest sympathies is seen in the call to the headship of some 

 of our leading universities of the chemists Eliot, Remsen, Ven- 

 able and Avery, of the physicists Nichols and MacLaurin, the 

 geologist Van Hise and the zoologist Jordan. The ideal result 

 of this training is to make men "who think that nothing of 

 humanity is alien to themselves." 



