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address have been received from two dis- 

 tinguished members of Sir William's au- 

 dience, one of them an eminent classical 

 scholar, the other an eminent scientist. Sir 

 Frederic Kenyon writes that : 



The delivery of Sir William Osier's address 

 was a very memorable occasion. As can be seen 

 by those who read it, it was full of learning, of 

 humour, of feeling, of eloquence, and it contained 

 suggestions of real weight with regard to the inter- 

 connection of science and the humanities. But it 

 gained much in delivery from the personality of 

 the speaker. No one could hear it without being 

 impressed by his width of outlook, by his easy 

 mastery of great tracts of literature and learning, 

 by his all-embracing humanity in the widest sense 

 of the term. I hope it made many students of sci- 

 ence anxious to extend their knowledge of classical 

 literature ; I know it made one student of the clas- 

 sics wish that he had a wider knowledge of natural 

 science. Osier himself was a well-nigh perfect ex- 

 ample of the union of science and the humanities, 

 which to some of us is the ideal of educational 

 progress; and his address embodied the whole 

 spirit of this ideal. 



