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post-graduate training and research. The movement among university 

 students must be followed by a similar tendency among the schoolboys, 

 as knowledge extended of the geography of the Empire. The report of 

 the committee dealt mainly with the question of creating an interest in 

 agriculture, but in the Dominions engineers were wanted just as much, 

 and boys who were inspired with a liking for the engineering industry as 

 boys would find opportunities in the Dominions for college training of 

 as high an order as could be given to them here. Those who knew the 

 Dominions realised that influence on their boys and girls was far more 

 important than influence in this direction on their men. The Dominions 

 dicl not want men who were merely failures here. Their opportunities 

 were far better if they went out to the Dominions as boys. When, as 

 the committee hoped, boys and girls were inspired with a real desire to 

 see the Dominions and enjoy the life there, rather than wait until they had 

 failed to make good in this country, that movement would be for the good 

 of the Empire as a whole. 



Sir Alfred Yarrow : I have paid many visits to Canada, passing 

 from east to west, and am fairly well acquainted with what is going on 

 in those parts. I have taken advantage of such trips to study the prospects 

 of young men who emigrate to Canada — and what applies to Canada will 

 apply to many of the Dominions. I refer to young men who intend to 

 emigrate in order to earn a livelihood and make positions for themselves. 



In Canada there are many natural advantages, such as unlimited 

 timber, mineral wealth, virgin soil suitable for growing wheat or fruit ; 

 large rivers and streams that can be turned to account by means of hydro- 

 electric plants to produce current cheaply. 



There can be little doubt that there are greater opportunities for young 

 men abroad than in the Old Country ; and I refer only to those young 

 men who are willing to work, and work hard. 



I have found many well-educated young men, full of energy, fail 

 through the lack of a few hints which are needed to guide them when 

 going abroad. 



What is wanted first is a good British public school education. Many 

 young men go abroad straight from an English university. Now the point 

 is, if a lad has determined to emigrate, and intends to take a university 

 course, he should go to a university in the country where he intends to 

 settle. He can, however, take a course at an English university and then 

 follow it up by a post-graduate course abroad. He thus becomes 

 acquainted with the new conditions of life, makes friends with his fellow- 

 students who were born and bred in the country, and these friendships 

 no doubt add to his happiness and are useful to him in after-life. On the 

 other hand, if he goes abroad straight from an English university and 

 expects to get employment at once, he cannot secure a position so easily 

 as a lad who has been through a university in the country where he has 

 settled. The fact is, many employers make a point of going to the local 

 imiversities or schools to select the young men whom they need, and they 

 are guided in their selection by the reports of the teachers ; while a lad 

 going straight from an English school or university is unknown. 



Introductions to refined families on the spot are most important, and 

 social accomplishments are not to be despised. A knowledge of music, 



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