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cation, and forget that unless also generous amounts are given to the 

 universities to prepare men to do that kind of thing — if they do not 

 recognize that — we shall end in disaster. It becomes us then, members 

 of the Royal Society and members of universities, to keep clear the 

 distinction between the applications of science to industry, and the 

 necessities of fundamental education in itself. We stand for these 

 things, and surely, as the result of all this struggle, the necessity of 

 these things has been borne in upon us. We have not thrown away 

 our sons in a useless encounter; they have not disappeared to leave no 

 results; they have died for an ideal, they have gone forth from our halls 

 with an ideal, and surely those of us who are left and those who return 

 will only cherish that spiritual ideal more clearly because of the struggle 

 (applause), recognizing that man does not live by bread alone, but 

 that it is by these spiritual things that you and I must truly live, and 

 that as we understand the spiritual we ourselves shall be in a better 

 position to provide more abundantly even the common bread for 

 daily Life. (Applause.) 



His Excellency the Governor-General, 



We have the honour and the pleasure to-night of having with us 

 a distinguished guest, Mr. Hollis Godfrey, Director of the Drexel 

 Institute, and I am sure we shall extend to him, both personally and 

 owing to what he represents, a most cordial welcome. He has, I 

 understand, come to this gathering for the purpose of collecting 

 information. We certainly have no wish, no desire, to impose our 

 experience upon others, but certainly in whatever direction he may 

 wish to gain information we are only too pleased and proud to place all 

 our knowledge and our experience frankly and freely at his disposal . 

 I look forward to still closer connection between what he represents 

 and what we represent here this evening. We have been brought 

 together in this great struggle, and we all know and appreciate what 

 his great country is doing and what it will do, and I look forward with 

 still more confidence to the results which will accrue for many gener- 

 ations to come. I think all of us feel that the already close bonds 

 between the two great countries will be brought more closely together 

 and that those common objects which we all have in view will be pro- 

 moted and assisted by the union which has recently been effected 

 (Applause). In no wise can that union be made stronger than in 

 the freest and widest interchange of intellectual ideas, and nowhere 

 would Mr. Godfrey receive a more cordial and more hearty welcome 

 than he will from those who represent The Royal Society of Canada and 

 the universities of Canada. Whatever he may find useful from a purely 

 practical point of view, I hope he will take back to his own country 



