Ixxviii PROCEEDINGS. 



The Geiman Universities, on the other hand, had develop- 

 ed regular schools of experimental teaching, and shrewdly 

 invited students to come to them from all parts of the globe, 

 and gave a special degree of Ph. D. to denote the termination 

 of such a course of training. And thus began that 'set' toward 

 German training, especially for men from this side of the 

 Atlantic, that gave German Science and German scientists 

 an unwarranted prestige, which Germany fostered until 

 it became almost a cult and required a world-war for its un- 

 doing. MacGregor spent some time at Leipzig, and became 

 a staunch believer in the experimental method of teaching 

 science, and at the same time he became more and more con- 

 vinced of the part science was to play in the progress of the 

 future, and of its educational value as well. When he returned 

 to his native land, it was as an apostle, a missionary, an enthus- 

 iastic devotee of his beloved Physics. From that time for- 

 ward he worked and fought for the introduction of more 

 science into the schools and colleges, with an ardor that no 

 amount of opposition and conservatism and temporary failure 

 could subdue; and it was a long uphill fight. He formed soci- 

 eties for its cultivation, addressed gatherings of teachers and 

 schools and colleges, preached from the platform and through 

 the Press. He was not merely an advocate of pure science; 

 but as truly as we see it today he foresaw the meaning and 

 value of applied science, and even organized out of voluntary 

 local talent a still-born Institute along the lines of our modern 

 Technological Institutes. The result of his efforts within the 

 University is seen after twelve years of constant fight, when he 

 had a Faculty of Pure and Applied Science set off and differen- 

 tiated from the Faculty of Arts. He was made its first Dean. 



With all his work as a teacher, and in spite of draw- 

 backs that would have overwhelmed the average man and 

 turned him into a mere hack, he never ceased his research 

 work, but, on the contrary, was remarkably productive. No 



