THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY 1 9 



observe their parts and put them together again, and see what 

 principles were involved in the analysis and synthesis, exactly as 

 the botanist may have done with his plants or the chemist with 

 his elements. 



In those days chemistry and physics were taught in Yale 

 College, as distinct from the Sheffield Scientific School, solely 

 by text books and lectures. Philology was taught by the lab- 

 oratory method, and for that reason the Freshman Greek course 

 was a course in modern science and meant that to the pupils. 

 (Laughter.) 



The courses in chemistry and physics widened the boys' knowl- 

 edge of facts and doubtless encouraged many of them to get 

 scientific training for themselves afterward; but the course in 

 Freshman Greek, for the first term, was a course in science, 

 because the boys learned to do the things, both easy and hard, 

 which are the heritage of the man of science. 



Science is not a department of life which may be partitioned 

 off from other parts; it is not the knowledge of certain kinds of 

 facts and the observation of certain kinds of interest, as distinct 

 from other facts and other interests; it is a way of looking at 

 life and dealing with life; a way of finding out facts of every 

 kind and dealing with interests as varied as the world itself, 



" Where each for the joy of the working, and each in his separate star, 

 Shall draw the thing as he sees it, for the God of things as they are." 



(Applause.) 



The President: I now present to you the next speaker, who 

 will discuss " International Cooperation in Research." The 

 speaker is Dr. Arthur Schuster, well known to many of us, whose 

 title is here given, though he has many, as the Secretary of the 

 Royal Society of London, a society which I may remind you 

 celebrated the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its founda- 

 tion last summer — the mother of all scientific associations. Dr. 

 Schuster. (Applause.) 



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