July 7, 1905.] 



SCIENCE. 



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tions, such as astronomical observatories, for 

 example, in order to assist in bringing about a 

 more uniform distribution than prevails at 

 present, of stations contributing magnetic 

 data.] 



In the near future additional appointmenis 

 are to he made in the department, the salaries 

 ranging from $1,000 to $2,500 per annum, in 

 accordance with qualifications and position. 



The places to be filled call for a chief 

 physicist, experienced magneticians capable of 

 conducting investigations, magiietic observers 

 for sea and land duty, and computers. 



The appointments are not restricted to citi- 

 zens of the United States. 



Applications should contain full information 

 regarding the applicant's life, education and 

 experience. They may be sent in now and 

 should be addressed to the Director, Depart- 

 ment Terrestrial Magnetism, The Ontario, 

 Washington, D. C, U. S. A. 



L. A. Bauer, 



Director. 



May 25, 1905. 



PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ON THE REWARDS 

 OF SCHOLARSHIP} 



The general opinion of the community is 

 bound to have a very great effect even upon 

 its most vigorous and independent minds. If 

 in the public raind the career of the scholar 

 is regarded as of insignificant value when 

 compared with that of a glorified pawnbroker, 

 then it will with difficulty be made attractive 

 to the most vigorous and gifted of our Amer- 

 ican young men. Good teachers, excellent in- 

 stitutions and libraries are all demanded in a 

 graduate school worthy of the name. But 

 there is an even more urgent demand for the 

 right sort of student. No first-class science, 

 no first-class literature or art, can ever be built 

 up with second-class men. 



The scholarly career, the career of the man 

 of letters, the man of arts, the man of science, 

 must be made such as to attract those strong 

 and virile youths who now feel that they can 

 only turn to business, law or politics. There 

 is no one thing whicn will bring about this 



^ From his address to the alumni of Harvard 

 College. 



desired change, but there is one thing which 

 will materially help in bringing it about, and 

 that is to secure to scholars the chance of get- 

 ting one of a few brilliant positions as prizes 

 if they rise to the first rank in their chosen 

 career. Eveiy such brilliant position should 

 have as an accompaniment an added salary, 

 which shall help indicate how high the posi- 

 tion really is ; and it must be the efforts of the 

 alumni which can alone secure such salaries 

 for such positions. 



As a people I think we are waking up to 

 the fact that there must be better pay for 

 the average man and average woman engaged 

 in the work of education. But I am not speak- 

 ing of this now; I am not speaking of the de- 

 sirability, great thoiigh that is, of giving bet- 

 ter payment to the average educator; I am 

 speaking of the desirability of giving to the 

 exceptional man the chance of winning an ex- 

 ceptional prize, just as he has the chance to do 

 in law and business. 



In business at the present day nothing could 

 be more healthy than an immense reduction in 

 the money value of the exceptional i^rizes thus 

 to be won; but in scholarship what is needed 

 is the reverse. In this country we rightly go 

 upon the theory that it is more important to 

 care for the welfare of the average man than 

 to put a premium upon the exertions of the 

 exceptional. But we must not forget that the 

 establishment of such a premium for the ex- 

 ceptional, though of less importance, is never- 

 theless of very great importance. It is impor- 

 tant even to the development of the average 

 man, for the average of all of us is raised by 

 the work of the great masters. 



It is, I trust, unnecessary to say that I 

 appreciate to the full the fact that the high- 

 est work of all will never be affected one way 

 or the other by any question of compensation. 

 And much of the work which is really best 

 for the nation must from the very nature of 

 things be non-remunerative as compared with 

 the work of the ordinary industries and voca- 

 tions. jSTor would it ever be possible or desir- 

 able that the rewards of transcendent success 

 in scholarship should even approximate, from 

 a monetary standpoint, the rewards in other 

 vocations. 



