Maech 20, 1914] 



SCIENCE 



417 



THE NEED FOR TRAINING PROFESSIONAL 

 COORDINATORS 



Life is a continual figM with physical, 

 biological and social environment. In the 

 struggle man has gradually acquired a 

 composite equipment. As in the process of 

 evolution from single celled organisms to 

 the higher animals there is loss of cell 

 versatility and acquirement of very special 

 function on the part of cells, cell groups 

 and systems, so in the social organism 

 development has come about. We have 

 come far and are going farther towards 

 specialization. Our increase in aggregate 

 knowledge has come by this very speciali- 

 zation, yet whilst this gives each of us more 

 power in his own sphere it makes him in- 

 creasingly dependent upon others. The 

 more knowledge we acquire in our own 

 field, the less we are apt to have in our 

 neighbor's. Inevitably we shall become 

 incapacitated from over-specialization un- 

 less we develop our " social nervous system" 

 to a corresponding degree. Our problems 

 become more largely governmental. "We 

 need professional coordinators; we require 

 those who can comprehend and compel 

 cooperation. "We have come to the point in 

 our development when we must have 

 trained statesmen, publicists, journalists, 

 social experts, public hygienists, lawmakers, 

 and last, but not by any means least, 

 spiritual advisers and leaders. As man 

 gets to know more about himself and his 

 environment, and learns to control in 

 increasing degree the forces of this world, 

 he does not lose interest in the question of 

 whence he came and whither he goes. He 

 needs to be understood and helped whilst 

 here, however. "We begin to see more 

 clearly the relation between disease and 

 morality, between poverty and crime and 

 between poverty and sickness. "We know 

 that physical efficiency is inexplicably inter- 

 woven with mental and moral vigor. "We 



appreciate better each day the unrighteous- 

 ness of ignorance and of disease, as well as 

 of doing less than one's best. 



LITERATURE, THE ARTS AND SCIENCES 



Mention of these has been reserved till 

 now because of the obviousness of their 

 place in any scheme of university develop- 

 ment. At no very recent date they largely 

 constituted the college and university cur- 

 ricula, with the exception of science, which 

 has only become respectable in Cambridge 

 within a generation and is now being 

 tolerated in Oxford. "We can not so well 

 develop agriculture and other industrial 

 activities which involve science and culture 

 independently of them, since their rami- 

 fications interdigitate with and involve all 

 our social and economic functions. These 

 interrelations are so self-evident that no 

 argument is needed in support of the claim 

 for increase in efficiency and the decrease 

 in effort and expense which result from a 

 policy which coordinates these branches 

 and provides a system of vital checks and 

 balances. Home management, agriculture, 

 forestry, engineering, architecture, mining, 

 manufacturing and commerce, medicine, 

 law, public health and all such practical 

 workaday phases of our national life are 

 rooted in the arts and sciences. They pre- 

 suppose the culture of the humanities, a 

 familiarity with the fine arts, a foundation 

 in the life and literature of the past, a 

 knowledge of current events in this and 

 other lands and the possession of linguistic 

 and other such tools. They are the more 

 practical application of biological, physical 

 and social sciences to the betterment of 

 man in order to place him en rapport with 

 his environment and adapt his environment 

 to his requirement as well as to adjust the 

 rights and obligation of man to the needs 

 of mankind and the will of his Creator. 



To divorce literature, science and the 



