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eni;ineering. such a man will consider it is doings useful work and 

 will look to it as an institution to be supported; seeing, too, more 

 of its work, ho may Icani the benefits of its science tcachiuii; and 

 its training in general for men .Seeing' to take up f)ther careers. 



The future leader of apj^lied science, too. should attend a 

 university along with the ]")ure scientist, not only because he 

 should have a full training in the theory which underlies his 

 applied science, but also because he. as 1 have said. rc(|uires the 

 training in the wider atmos])here. 



ilie student of pure science will learn nuich b)- seeing to 

 some degree applications of the science he is studying and acquir- 

 ing some interest in them ; he ma\' be prevented from becoming 

 the " mooning j^edant or pernicious crank," spokeri of by our 

 President in 19 [o. In any case the mingling of the pure and 

 applied scientists will llre^'ent any such barrier being set up 

 between them as is refei"red to in scientific addresses in England, 

 and such remarks being made here by presidents of technical 

 institutions as that the general disregard of science in England 

 is of course the fault of scientific men (meaning, I sui)pose. the 

 pure scientists) and partictdarly of the I'ioyal Society. 



Furfhering of Research. — A university is ex]:)ected to fm-ther 

 research. Every age is the inheritor of the intellectual wealth 

 of preceding ages, and it is its duty to hand that on increased by 

 its own contribution to the succeeding age. In every department 

 the sum of human knowledge is limited, and it is an inspiration 

 to those who are working to feel that every discovery is not only 

 an addition to knowledge, but a sure stepping-stone to still further 

 advance. The desire to add to human knowledge should exist 

 right through a university, and its teachers should have ample 

 leisure and satisfactory equipment for their ])rivate research, two 

 conditions w^hich have only sometimes been fulfilled at the col- 

 leges in Soitth Africa. The new universities should at all costs 

 avoid the danger pointed out in the " TIandbook for Australia" 

 ])rinted for the British Association in 1914. In the section on 

 educational policy and development in connection v.-ith their uni- 

 versities, there occurs the sentence, " In a new university the 

 teaching function dominates. The teachers, especially in the 

 faculty of arts, are overburdened with formal lecturing and class- 

 work, and have too many subjects in charge to permit of the 

 necessary specialisation." I must add, however, the next sen- 

 tence : "Yet, in spite of these restrictions the annual output of 

 original work is highly creditable to the Australian Universities, 

 especially in the scientific departments, where the teachers are in 

 less bondage to the formal lecturing system." Still, while it is 

 necessary for the encouragement of research to build good labora- 

 tories, endow chairs well, and attract the best men possible, it 

 must be remembered that the highest form of research is not made 

 to order and that there is more in genius than industry and oppor- 

 tunity. The university which can count a Kelvin among its pro- 

 fessors is indeed fortunate; what man. privileged to be a student 



