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about 1 per 1,000 reaches a university. This is far too low a propor- 
tion, and it indicates the denial of that equality of opportunity which 
must be our ideal.’ * 
“We are not limited, however, to a military objective, for when the 
war is over the international competitions of peace will be resumed. 
No treaties or leagues can prevent that, and it is not desirable that they 
should, for no nation can afford to be without the stimulus of com- 
petition. 
“In that race the same power of science which has so amazingly 
increased the productive capacity of mankind during the past century 
will be applied again, and the prizes of industrial and commercial leader- 
ship will fall to the nation which organizes its science forces most 
effectively.” * 
1 Lord Sydenham, Science, N. S. Vol. XLVIII, pp. 482 and 483, 1918. 
? Elihu Root, |. c. pp. 533 and 534. 
