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SCIENCE 



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three headings, namely : Findings, Conclusions 

 and Eecommendations. 



FINDINGS 



(a) Research is the source of all added 

 knowledge. 



(6) The universities are properly institu- 

 tions of research. 



(c) The proper development of university 

 research requires unlimited and unrestricted 

 publicity as to all its activities and results. 



(d) Not all research activities of the indus- 

 tries can be published and it is only in such 

 cases where pubHeity is compatible with in- 

 dustrial progress, that full cooperation between 

 the universities and the industries can be 

 effected. 



(e) When a faculty-member as an individ- 

 ual works in conjunction with an individual in- 

 dustry and the results of that work are kept 

 secret, that is not that cooperation between 

 universities and industries which this com- 

 mittee is considering. 



(/) Industrial or similar fellowships when 

 foujided by industrials or groups of industrials, 

 coupled with publicity of the results, are efFec- 

 tive modes of cooperation; the effectiveness of 

 these fellowships diminishes as the momber of 

 contributing industrials decreases and the 

 liberty to publish is restricted. 



ig) In the case of problems of the indus- 

 tries where the results shall be held exclusive 

 or secret or subject to patent, no general solu- 

 tion can be offered, but in each such case the 

 individual industrial and the individual fac- 

 ulty-member or the individual institution must 

 work out the best plan under the given set of 

 conditions. 



(/i) No matter how efficiently the university 

 may train its men, the industries that take up 

 such men must be prepared to expend consid- 

 erable of their own time, effort and money in 

 training such men for the specific work before 

 them. 



(•i) The tuition and fees paid by students 

 cover only a small part of the cost of their edu- 

 cation at the universities. 



(j) Apprenticeship of chemists during sum- 

 mer vacations in the industries is not in gen- 



eral feasible, and in general is limited to 

 routine experience in the analytical laboratory 

 and not in the manufacturing plant proper. 



(h) Scientific problems and the scientific 

 side of technical problems are proper subjects 

 for university treatment and investigation ; the 

 bringing of the university professor into the 

 industries by having him examine the problem 

 in the plant and determine the scientific aspect 

 of the problem, and the pursuit of that prob- 

 lem in the university, is a promising point of 

 entry for increased cooperation. 



CONCLUSIONS 



I. Cooperation, such as has been had hereto- 

 fore, between associations of industries and in- 

 stitutions of learning for the solution of scien- 

 tific problems or the scientific side of indus- 

 trial problems, which are common to such 

 specific industries, and the appropriate publi- 

 cation of the results of such investigations, has 

 been productive of great public good, and the 

 greatest immediate prospect for expansion of 

 cooperation between universities and indus- 

 tries lies in coordinated effort along the above 

 lines. 



II. There are industrial problems not com- 

 mon to any group or number of plants and 

 which can not properly be published, and these 

 are, therefore, not adapted to university treat- 

 ment; problems of this kind in the course of 

 time do become coramon to the entire indus- 

 tries; to increase cooperation in this class of 

 problems it is needful to accelerate the transfer 

 of problems of this class to problems of the 

 preceding class. 



III. In order that there may be as little 

 duplication of effort and labor as possible, and 

 the greatest acceleration of cooperation, a 

 permanent central committee should be cre- 

 ated and appointed by representatives of the 

 universities and the industries, and such com- 

 mittee should study opportunities and make 

 public recommendations for cooperation along 

 the lines laid down in these conclusions. 



rV. Cooperation between universities and 

 industries as to uniform requirements in the 

 fundamentals of instruction seems possible, 

 feasible and mutually profitable. 



