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parts of the country have done, there can be no question that the 

 universities of this Dominion were ready, were eager, at the very 

 commencement, to do their duty. They were quick to discern the 

 issues — far quicker to discern the issues, I beHeve, than the average 

 person; and the result is that from the universities there has flowed 

 forth a stream of the very finest and richest that we had. (Applause.) 



The universities have been emptied. But there is an old saying 

 that there is that which giveth and yet doth not impoverish — and 

 there is that which withholdeth more than is meet and tendeth to 

 poverty. Now it may be, and I believe it will be, true that out of 

 this emptying of our universities there will come in the long run, 

 into the very heart of them, a richness that we never possessed before. 

 We have proved in this Dominion that we understand the duties of an 

 educated life, we understand the duties of citizenship, and that 

 we are ready for greater things. 



It has been a time of great difficulty, a time of extraordinary 

 difficulty. Not only have our best left us, or many of our best, but 

 there has been along with that the necessity of holding together and 

 carrying on work pretty much, at least as far as possible, of the same 

 grade and quality as was performed in the earlier days. I am confident 

 that in all the universities the strain has been heavier than we realized 

 at the time. We are perhaps recognizing it at the end of the third 

 year in a way that we little imagined we would recognize it at the 

 beginning. The financial strain has been very severe, and perhaps 

 will be more severe. We have had to reduce our expenditure to the 

 very smallest possible dimensions. We have had to cut down every- 

 thing, and the danger will be lest, when the war is over, the country 

 should imagine that the minimum on which we have been holding 

 university life together will suffice as a starting point for the enlarge- 

 ment. That is a danger that we all have to face, and it becomes us 

 here, who are educated men, who have influence outside, to use our 

 effort with all those who are in' power to induce them to look upon the 

 necessities of education not from the minimum point of view that we 

 have reached in this time of stress, but that they should at once take 

 us back to the place that we had arrived at before, so that from that 

 we may go on to new development. (Applause.) 



There will be a danger lest in the midst of the demands that will 

 come from all quarters the public shall say, "Education! It can wait. 

 Let it wait." And there is danger lest every application of science 

 to industry may lead those in power, those in government, to vote 

 large sums of money for that one side of life, which is not necessarily 

 education at all, but which is the outcome of it; lest they should 

 devote large sums of money to that application of the results of edu- 



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