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their scope and to sympathise with the workers who 

 are engaged upon them. But when your academical 

 career is ended, no such chance of wide general train- 

 ing is ever likely to be yours again. You will be 

 dragged into the whirl of life, where you will probably 

 find little time or opportunity to travel much beyond 

 the sphere of employment to which you may have 

 been called. Make the most, therefore, of the advan- 

 tages which in this respect you meet with here. Try 

 to ensure that your acquaintance with each branch 

 of science embraced in your circle of studies shall 

 be as full and accurate as lies in your power to make 

 it. Even in departments outside the bounds of your 

 own tastes and ultimate requirements, do not neglect 

 the means provided for your gaining some knowledge 

 of them. I urge this duty, not because its diligent 

 discharge will obviously tell in your examinations, but 

 because it will give you that scientific culture which 

 while enabling you to appreciate and enjoy the suc- 

 cessive advances of other sciences than that which you 

 may select for special cultivation, will at the same 

 time increase your general usefulness and aid you in 

 your own researches. 



The days of Admirable Crichtons are long since 

 past. So rapid and general is the onward march of 

 science that not only can no man keep pace with it in 

 every direction, but it has become almost hopelessly 

 impossible to remain abreast of the progress in each of 

 the several sub-divisions of even a single science. We 

 are entering more and more upon the age of specialists. 

 It grows increasingly difficult for the specialists, even in 

 kindred sciences, to remain in touch with each other. 



