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SCIENCE 



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That "good men" are scarce is, of course, a 

 truism; but it is terribly apposite in these days. 

 The modem manufacturer advisedly economizes in 

 everything but salaries, and the very considerable 

 salaries paid to "good men" are ample evidence 

 of their rarity. Now, the purlieus of adolescent 

 ' ' good men ' ' are the laboratories of the university. 

 There it is that men are ' ' tried out, ' ' and there it 

 is, too, that men are known better than they know 

 themselves. 



Supporters of scientific and industrial re- 

 seareli must aid in helping to establish a 

 condition which will ensure a greater number 

 of scientific teachers who are also trained 

 as productive scientists. It can not be gain- 

 said that it is a highly desirable plan to 

 arrange curricula so that every teacher whose 

 favorite pursuit is research may develop it 

 by the assistance of his students. The most 

 important problem in industrial research to- 

 day is not, how shall use be made of trained 

 scientific investigators? It is, rather, how 

 may there be produced annually active yoimg 

 students of science at a greater rate and of 

 higher quality? And in this connection, 

 thought must be expressed in terms of thou- 

 sands per year of the type of trained men 

 represented, say, by the doctor's degree or by 

 two or more years of individual experimental 

 work following the completion of appropriate 

 undergraduate training. 



The following list presents the institutional 

 source of the incumbents of the Industrial 

 Fellowships of the Mellon Institute from the 

 time of its foundation in 1912 to the present 

 day. It is the experience of the administra- 

 tion of the institute that a knowledge of the 

 domestic history of the important research- 

 schools facilitates the prognosis of the in- 

 vestigational possibilities of applicants there- 

 from. This information also renders less 

 difficult the occasional quests for experts or 

 research men possessing specific qualifications 

 of a high order. Every large industrial re- 

 search laboratory whose operation discloses 

 telesis has received innumerable benefits from 

 the establishment of cordial relations of 

 cooperation with the various researchful uni- 

 versity laboratories. 



INSTITUTIONS REPRESENTED IN THE MELLON INSTI- 

 TUTE, 1912-20 



Name3 of Institutions 



Alfred University 



Allegheny College 



Amherst College 



Augustana College 



Beloit College 



Carnegie Institute of Tech- 

 nology 



Clark University 



Clarkson College of Tech- 

 nology 



College of the City of New 

 York 



Columbia University 



Cornell College 



Cornell University 



Dakota Wesleyan University . 



Dalhousie University 



Delaware College 



DePauw University 



Dickinson College 



Emporia College 



Fairmount College 



Franklin & Marshall College. . 



George Washington Univer- 

 sity 



Harvard University 



Haverf ord College 



Hiram College 



Iowa State College 



Johns Hopkins University .... 



Kansas State Agricultural Col- 



Lafayette College 



Leland Stanford, Jr., Univer 



sity 



McGill University 



Marietta College 



Massachusetts Agr. College.. . 

 Massachusetts Institute of 



Technology 



Monmouth College 



Muhlenberg College 



Nebraska Wesleyan University 



New Hampshire College 



New York University 



Northwestern University .... 



Ohio State University 



Ohio University 



Oklahoma A. & M. College. . 

 Oregon Agricultural College . 

 Pennsylvania State College . . 



Purdue University 



Richmond College 



Ripon College 



Rose Polytechnic Institute . . 



Southwestern College 



Syracuse University 



Tuft's College 



Tulane University 



B.S. 

 and 

 A.B. 



M.S. 

 and 

 M.A. 



