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But who is to support the researches of 

 the pure scientist, and who is to furnish him 

 with encouragement and assistance to pur- 

 sue his self-sacrificing and arduous quest 

 for that truth which is certain as time goes 

 on to bring in its train so many blessings 

 to mankind? Who is to furnish the labo- 

 ratories, the funds for apparatus and for 

 traveling and for foreign study ? 



Because of the extraordinary practical 

 results which have been attained by scien- 

 tifically trained men working in the indus- 

 trial laboratories and because of the 

 limited and narrow conditions under which 

 many scientific investigators have some- 

 times been compelled to work in univer- 

 sities, it has been suggested that perhaps 

 the theater of scientific research might be 

 shifted from the university to the great 

 industrial laboratories which have already 

 grown up or to the even greater ones which 

 the future is bound to bring forth. But we 

 can dismiss this suggestion as being un- 

 worthy. 



Organizations and institutions of many 

 kinds are engaged in pure scientific re- 

 search and they should receive every en- 

 couragement, but the natural home of pure 

 science and of pure scientific research is to 

 be found in the university, from which it 

 can not pass. It is a high function of the 

 universities to make advances in science, 

 to test new scientific discoveries and to 

 place their stamp of truth upon those which 

 are found to be pure. In this way only can 

 they determine what shall be taught as 

 scientific truth to those who, relying upon 

 their authority, come to them for knowledge 

 and believe what they teach. 



