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UNIVERSITY TRAINING 



AT Manchester last year, when they installed Lord 

 Morley, the Secretary of State for India, as 

 Chancellor of the University, the Right Hon. Arthur 

 Balfour delivered a very interesting address, in which 

 he declared himself a believer in the gospel of " Science 

 the Master." Mr. Balfour's speech did not imply any 

 disregard for the pursuit of historical knowledge and a 

 training in literature and the use of language, but it was 

 a clear recognition of the fact that when the great purpose 

 for which universities exist is considered it must be 

 asserted in no hesitating terms that the discovery of 

 new knowledge is the most important activity which a 

 university can foster. To train men (and women, too) 

 to use their faculties not merely to acquire knowledge of 

 what has been discovered by others in the past, but to 

 discover new things and to gain further control over the 

 conditions in which we live, and to secure further under- 

 standing not only of nature but of man that is the 

 great business of the university. 



It was fortunate that Mr. Balfour was present and 

 able to strike this note, for Lord Morley, the new 

 Chancellor, had not expressed any such conception of 

 the aims of a university. He declared that, so long as 

 the Greeks have anything to teach us we should not 



