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in a manner which can hardly be done in a 

 laboratory attached to an educational institu- 

 tion. The whole staff are engaged in applying 

 science to industry; equipment is provided 

 for this purpose only. The needs of the 

 student and the educational value of the 

 apparatus have not to be considered. 



I would not advocate that work such as I 

 have outlined should, as a rule, find a place in 

 a University laboratory, but a University has 

 its own task in connection with these labora- 

 tories which, believe me, are a necessity if 

 science is to be freely applied to industry. 

 The Universities and Technical Schools must 

 provide and train the staff, not in the appli- 

 cations of science, but in methods of investiga- 

 tion, in the knowledge of scientific truths, in 

 the power of observation, the capacity to in- 

 terpret the observations they make and the 

 experimental results they obtain, and, above 



