August 12, 1004.] 



SCIENCE. 



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npon these an advanced school modeled 

 upon the German nniversities, but with a 

 broader scope. In such a university the 

 student in the colleges of liberal and fine 

 arts has opportunity to elect work in ap- 

 plied science, and thus broaden his educa- 

 tion. He feels the inspiring influence of 

 scholarship and research, and thus gains 

 enthusiasm for the elementary work be- 

 cause it leads to the heights. The student 

 in applied knowledge is not restricted to 

 subjects which concern his future profes- 

 sion, but he has the opportunity to pursue 

 the humanities and the fine arts, and thus 

 liberalize his education. He, too, feels the 

 stimulus of the graduate school, and, if one 

 of the elect, may become an investigator 

 and thus further ameliorate the lot of 

 mankind by new applications of science to 

 life. The student in the graduate school, 

 primarily concerned with creative scholar- 

 ship, may supplement a deficient basal 

 training by work in the liberal arts and in 

 the schools of applied knowledge. Thus 

 the college of liberal arts, of applied knowl- 

 edge and of creative scholarship interlock. 

 Each is stronger and can do the work 

 peculiar to itself better than if alone. This 

 combination university is the American 

 university of the future, and this the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin must become if it is 

 to be the peer of the great universities of 

 the nation. 



Wisconsin is among the state universities 

 which have this opportunity open to them. 

 Many of the states have divided their 

 grants among several foundations, support- 

 ing at different localities, schools of 

 liberal arts, of agriculture, of medicine 

 and of mining. In Wisconsin there is 

 only one institution which attempts to 

 do university work. Public and private 

 funds alike, which are to go to a uni- 

 versity, should come to that institution. 

 This statement does not imply lack of ap- 

 preciation of the excellent and very impor- 



tant work done by the colleges of the state. 

 May they continue to thrive ; may they con- 

 tinue to have the support of the citizens of 

 the state; for the many thousands of stu- 

 dents that during the next half century are 

 continuously to demand a college education 

 in this state can not be accommodated in 

 one institution. Collegiate work should be 

 done at several centers within the state, but 

 professional and university work is so ex- 

 pensive and the different schools and col- 

 leges so closely interlock, that the best op- 

 portunities can only be furnished in the 

 various fields in the university. At a 

 university of the first rank the oppor- 

 tunities for instruction in the fields 

 strongly covered are superior to those 

 which can be offered in an institution de- 

 voted to a single field. Wisconsin has 

 fortunately escaped the fatal mistake of 

 subdivision of its university effort. With 

 the concentrated support of the state, 

 public and private, there is no reason why 

 the University of Wisconsin should not 

 do in every line as high grade work as any 

 in the country. My faith is such that I 

 look forward with confidence to the future, 

 with profound conviction that the breadth 

 of vision, which has enabled this institu- 

 tion to grow from small beginnings to its 

 present magnitude, will continue to guide 

 the state, until a university is built as 

 broad as human endeavor, as high as hu- 

 man aspiration. 



THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA BIOLOCh 

 ICAL STATION AND ITS WORK. 



The University of Montana Biological 

 Station at Bigfork, on Flathead Lake, 

 opened its sixth annual session on Ji^ly 

 18, the session lasting for five weeks. 

 The circular giving announcement of the 

 work for the season contains a number of 

 new and choice original photographs, giv- 

 ing views of the region in which the station 

 is located, including sketches of Flathead 



