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community? The speaker claimed that two maiu points covered 

 the case. Secure titles and the diffusion of proper information 

 would increase the profits and reduce the wastes of mining in this 

 country. He then discussed the means to be employed in attainmg 

 these ends, and in relation to the second one, remarked that a 

 national school of mines is a great necessity, and gave his reason 

 why the proposed institution should be a school and not a bureau; 

 a school of mines and not of general science, with mining as a 

 subordinate branch, and a national, not a state or private school. 

 In the course of these remarks, Mi\ Raymond spoke in highly 

 complimentary terms of the Mining School of Columbia College, 

 but said one might as well refer a citizen of California or Idaho to 

 Berlin as New York for his education; and, moreover, to realize the 

 utmost possible benefit from its influence, a mining school should 

 be located in a mining community. Considering the objections 

 frequently urged against science and theorists by so-called practical 

 men, he showed that the establishment of a national school, in 

 this country would obviate the evil, the existence of which he 

 frankly admitted, and the nature of which he believed to lie in 

 training men to a particular profession thousands of miles from the 

 place in which they were to practice it and under widely different 

 conditions. Mr. Raymond spoke for about an our and a half, and 

 was listened to with the closest attention by a crowded and highly 

 interested audience. Adjourned. 



