the stimulus of marching side by side that our advance is to 

 be found. You commercial gentlemen are making money. 

 You are dependent on the investigator for the power 

 of making money in the way in which you want to make it. 

 The investigator is dependent upon you for the power of in- 

 vestigation. Investigation is what some people think of as being 

 in a class that is of no value or interest to mankind ; but our 

 civilization rests upon it. What we are going to do in the 

 next fifty years is going to amount to more than what we have 

 done in the last fifty years. The fruit of abstract scientific 

 study must be applied through schools of experience, through 

 engineering and through practical schools ; and that is exactly 

 the course that things are taking. I take it that there is not 

 to-day a single field of science which affords to the commer- 

 cial and industrial wor'ld such great opportunities of wealth 

 as the science of botany does. I do not except chemistry. The 

 time is ripe now for developing each one of these fields I have 

 spoken of as fields of abstract investigation and of applied 

 instruction. The thn-e is ripe for it. Our children are going 

 to the operetta "The Time, The Place and The Girl." The 

 question is where "The Place and the Man" for this happy co- 

 ordination are to be found." 



Prof. Blair: — 



"Perhaps the contrast between the purely theoretical, such 

 as speculation on practical affairs, and the modern practical 

 way could not be brought forward more clearly than in 

 the way we treat the matter of transportation. Zeno proved 

 to the world that there was no such thing as motion, and 

 there was no transportation in his sense. We have quit 

 speculating on that sort of thing and our question is Tiow to 

 get the wheat products of the West to New York Cit}^ and 

 load them on to tlic l)oat,' and we are relating ourselves to the 

 question of transportation in the sound, ])ractical way we are 

 in others. But I want to tell you. of a little bit of scientific 

 transportation. 



Over in tlie little State of Indiana they have a very fair 



