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SCIENCE 



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need of the lawyer to help us adjust man's 

 rights to mankind's needs. "We do wisely 

 if we train these men carefully who are to 

 compose our diiBculties, lest they only stir 

 up strife where they should be strenuous 

 for peace. We expect them to be the lead- 

 ing force in developing society by making 

 the individual conform to the mass. They 

 must therefore be men of the highest integ- 

 rity and trained most broadly. They need 

 a knowledge of what has gone before. 

 They need all the cultural training avail- 

 able and they most certainly need some 

 information in regard to the sciences if they 

 are to be intelligent in the making and 

 interpretation of laws which are intended 

 to crystallize our most advanced thought 

 and fix common procedure. 



The preceptor system is ideal when the 

 student is articled to one who can and will 

 teach and who feels at once his opportunity 

 and his obligation. It is, however, as un- 

 reliable as it is antiquated, and is anti- 

 quated because it is iinreliable. It belongs 

 to the dark ages when public schools and 

 compulsory education were unknown. 

 Whilst medicine has taken many liberties 

 with pedagogical principles, she has long 

 ago given up the apprentice system, and of 

 recent j^ears has introduced modern teach- 

 ing methods into her schools. Law must 

 inevitably follow. The public will doubt- 

 less develop state mechanisms for training 

 our lawyers, who have meant and must 

 continue to mean so much to British prog- 

 ress and national stability. British law is 

 the pride of the empire. 



MEDICINE AND ALLIED BEANCHES 



The people realize in increasing degree 

 that the provision of better physicians and 

 nurses for their children is the best pos- 

 sible public investment, a form of life insur- 

 ance that is safer than any other. They 

 understand that it is the people's business 



to provide adequate training and to insist 

 that those who are to be entrusted with the 

 lives and welfare of our citizens avail them- 

 selves of that training and present satis- 

 factory evidence of proper qualification for 

 their work. Medicine is being increasingly 

 socialized. We are drifting perceptibly 

 nearer to the time when the doctor will be 

 a public servant and not a member of a 

 privileged class. It is therefore only just 

 and right that he be trained at public ex- 

 pense. This means provision not only of 

 biological, chemical and physical labora- 

 tories, but laboratories of medical science, 

 clinical laboratories, hospitals, dental in- 

 firmaries, dispensaries, nurses' homes, and 

 other such facilities, all as a part of the 

 equipment of a provincial university. 



The expense of such an undertaking 

 should properly be assessed not alone 

 against the university, however. It is a 

 good public investment when the by- 

 product more than pays the total cost of 

 operation. The teaching hospital, the back- 

 bone of such a university school of medi- 

 cine, by returning to the community from 

 which the patient comes a self-supporting 

 and independent citizen in lieu of a help- 

 less being — a burden to himself and others 

 — is far more than paying the cost of 

 maintenance. In fact, the cost of operating 

 the hospital and its associated laboratories 

 should really be charged not to education, 

 but to public works, not to life insurance 

 for our children, which medical teaching 

 means, but to current provincial business, 

 which increases the earnings of to-day. 

 We are learning to know that in fairness 

 both to the sick who can not work, and to 

 the well who must work, the place for the 

 sick is in the hospital. The sick can not 

 receive such kind and efficient care at home 

 whilst the amateur nursing and household 

 disturbance both interfere with the work 

 and reduce the vitality of the well. 



