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3. A post-graduate course of several years absolutely devoted to 

 the Department in which the candidate is to specialize, and this under 

 a professor who has a "fine frenzy" and devotion to his subject. 



4. Certificates of competence, of skilfulness and of success in solv- 

 ing a prescribed problem. 



Even under all the power and pressure of a great guiding intellect, 

 the aspirant may at times fail. But that there is a certainty of a general 

 average of fair results is seen when we but name over, and recall the work 

 achieved and the impulse imparted by the 



Deans of Research in England. 



Lord Lister, London, in Preventive Medicine. 



Sir H. H. Roscoe, London, in Chemistry. 



Sir J. J. Thomson, Cambridge, Physics. 



Sir Oliver Lodge, Birmingham, Physics. 



Sir William Ramsay, London, Chemistry. 



Sir William Slich, Oxford, Forestry. 



Dr. Silvanus Thompson, London (Guilds School), Physics. 



Dr. Ernest Rutherford, Manchester, Physics. 



Sir James Dewar, Cambridge, Chemistry. 



What then is Research? 



I. It is a great National Asset. Think of what it would be to have a 

 hundred men of high attainments and practical skill working under 

 favorable conditions in Canada upon the hundred problems to which we 

 have referred. Yes, we have had them, but we did not set them to work 

 on our National Science problems. Our Commission met Canadians 

 highly educated and occupying places of scientific distinction in twos and 

 threes in New York, Cornell (Ithaca), Johns Hopkins (Baltimore), 

 Washington, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Madison, Wis., Minneapolis, Kansas, 

 Missouri, California, Washington State — our brightest minds. — From 

 Toronto University alone there have gone to high educational positions 

 in the United States hundreds of Canadians, and I have a list of graduates 

 of the Guelph Agricultural College who have left Canada to hold high 

 educational and research positions in 30 agricultural colleges and experi- 

 ment stations, from the Atlantic to the Pacific in the United States. I 

 am informed that in Institutions of Higher Learning and Scientific oc- 

 cupations in the United States there are no fewer than 600 graduates of 

 Toronto University, and I know that McGill and Queen's are similarly 

 represented. 



One of the most brilliant of these wanderers said to me lately: "I 

 am a Canadian ; my wife is a Canadian ; we are bringing up our little girl 



