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would mean more expense, but the Province would be well paid for its 

 extra outlay. 



There should be a larger number of places for research men in Canada. 

 There should be more positions for them in the universities and more in 

 the industries outside. The University of Toronto has begun to develop 

 along research lines and in the course of time, no doubt, much good 

 Canadian brain power will be salvaged which would otherwise go to waste. 

 The projected Institute for Research at Ottawa will absorb some of the 

 men trained by the University for research. It is to be hoped that the 

 demand from the industries will grow. It might be well also to base 

 such men in charge of the science departments in the high schools and 

 to encourage their research inclinations by furnishing them with adequate 

 laboratory equipment. Something of this sort, I understand, it is 

 proposed to do in England.* This would all tend to conserve Canadian 

 brain for Canada and would check the leakage to the United States and 

 other countries. Of the 15,000 living graduates of the University of 

 Toronto, 1,700 are located in the Republic to the South of us. Between 

 400 and 500 others are domiciled abroad. McGill's loss to the United 

 States is 1,500 out of 6,700 graduates. 



It has been suggested that research professors and research associate 

 professors be appointed in the departments of natural science of the 

 University of Toronto, their duties to consist primarily in the prosecution 

 of research on their own account and in the training of young men of 

 selected ability for research. The aggregate of these research men 

 would be known as the research staff in natural science of the University 

 of Toronto. 



To me it appears that the organization of such a group would, in 

 addition to creating greater effectiveness within the university, have a 

 two-fold benefit without. On the one hand it would remind the laymen 

 that there exists a body of men in the world whose business it is to 

 advance knowledge and on the other hand it would impress on them the 

 fact that the University is not an institution whose sole function is to 

 purvey knowledge, but that it has also another and quite as important 

 function, namely to add to knowledge and to train young men in order 

 that they may add to knowledge in their turn. 



The war has been wasteful of brain power. It has, however, taught 

 us its value. In the work of reconstruction nothing can be of more 

 importance than conserving and realizing on the brain power of the 

 nation. In this work the universities must play the leading role. If 



*A provision in the Education Act enables local authorities to meet the cost of 

 research work of educational value conducted by teachers in the schools. 



