4 First Annual Report 
OUR PROFESSION OF FAITH IN 
THIS WORK 
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A man’s education most perfectly adapts him for the greatest 
success In any phase of human endeavor only when it has included 
thorough training in scientific method—accurate observing, truthful 
recording, and logical correlating. 
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Biology—the study of life—as an element in education (and 
so in the progress of the human race) represents one of man’s most 
intimate and fundamental intellectual activities—it is the study of 
his own life forces and of the myriad influences that determine his 
own setting in nature. 
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The sea, that limitless fountain-head of immeasurable life, which 
without cultivation has yielded so much to the nurture of the human 
race, which with cultivation can yield as much food as our best agri- 
cultural lands, and which, one day, when the land is crowded with 
teeming millions, will go far toward feeding the then existing peoples 
—the sea, I say, presents a multitude of pressing problems of infinite 
importance to the future of humanity, and is the preeminent bio- 
logical laboratory of earth, which every year is attracting an increas- 
ingly greater number of students, and enlisting an ever warmer and 
more active human interest. 
C. F. Baxer. 
