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  Gregory 
  — 
  Co-operation 
  in 
  Geologic 
  Instruction. 
  

  

  existing 
  departments, 
  much 
  more, 
  I 
  think, 
  can 
  be 
  done 
  for 
  

   graduate 
  students, 
  and 
  for 
  research, 
  by 
  interchange 
  of 
  

   students, 
  by 
  interchange 
  of 
  information 
  and 
  by 
  joint 
  field 
  

   courses. 
  

  

  The 
  generous 
  interchange 
  of 
  students 
  is 
  to 
  my 
  mind 
  a 
  

   matter 
  of 
  large 
  importance. 
  No 
  institution 
  has 
  a 
  monop- 
  

   oly 
  of 
  inspiring 
  and 
  suggestive 
  teachers 
  or 
  of 
  men 
  who 
  

   conduct 
  significant 
  research 
  or 
  men 
  with 
  the 
  same 
  code 
  

   of 
  ethics. 
  Institutions 
  are 
  not 
  uniformly 
  equipped 
  with 
  

   library, 
  laboratories 
  and 
  collections, 
  and 
  the 
  geology 
  sur- 
  

   rounding 
  institutions 
  differs 
  widely. 
  It 
  is 
  highly 
  desir- 
  

   able 
  that 
  students 
  during 
  their 
  three 
  or 
  four 
  years 
  of 
  

   advanced 
  study 
  should 
  come 
  into 
  contact 
  with 
  a 
  number 
  

   of 
  strong 
  men, 
  especially 
  of 
  men 
  other 
  than 
  their 
  under- 
  

   graduate 
  teachers, 
  and 
  that 
  they 
  should 
  learn 
  at 
  first 
  

   hand 
  the 
  salient 
  geologic 
  features 
  of 
  different 
  parts 
  of 
  

   the 
  country. 
  No 
  complicated 
  machinery 
  is 
  necessary 
  to 
  

   provide 
  these 
  opportunities. 
  Students 
  may 
  enroll 
  and 
  

   receive 
  their 
  degrees 
  at 
  the 
  university 
  of 
  their 
  choice 
  and 
  

   be 
  guests 
  or 
  paying 
  guests 
  at 
  other 
  institutions. 
  It 
  

   would, 
  however, 
  involve 
  an 
  agreement 
  to 
  organize 
  one- 
  

   term 
  courses 
  and 
  to 
  make 
  more 
  liberal 
  expenditure 
  of 
  

   fellowship 
  funds, 
  perhaps 
  even 
  to 
  the 
  extent 
  of 
  pooling 
  

   funds 
  now 
  available 
  in 
  different 
  institutions. 
  

  

  The 
  interchange 
  of 
  information 
  regarding 
  problems 
  in 
  

   hand, 
  of 
  areas 
  under 
  investigation, 
  and 
  of 
  materials 
  col- 
  

   lected 
  is 
  desirable. 
  The 
  duplication 
  and 
  wasted 
  effort 
  

   resulting 
  from 
  the 
  disregard 
  of 
  friendly 
  conference 
  may 
  

   be 
  illustrated 
  by 
  cases 
  which 
  have 
  come 
  under 
  my 
  obser- 
  

   vation. 
  Without 
  consulting 
  the 
  State 
  Geologist 
  a 
  student 
  

   was 
  assigned 
  for 
  a 
  thesis, 
  involving 
  a 
  summer's 
  field 
  

   work, 
  a 
  problem 
  which 
  was 
  supposed 
  to 
  be 
  untouched 
  but 
  

   on 
  which 
  two 
  able 
  men 
  had 
  spent 
  two 
  years 
  and 
  had 
  pre- 
  

   pared 
  a 
  report 
  for 
  the 
  press. 
  Another 
  student 
  spent 
  a 
  

   season 
  collecting 
  material 
  for 
  study 
  and 
  prepared 
  an 
  

   inconclusive 
  paper, 
  ignorant 
  of 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  a 
  complete 
  

   collection 
  of 
  material 
  from 
  the 
  same 
  locality 
  was 
  available 
  

   in 
  a 
  neighboring 
  museum. 
  Three 
  trained 
  workers 
  with 
  

   no 
  knowledge 
  of 
  each 
  other's 
  plans 
  worked 
  on 
  the 
  same 
  

   problem 
  for 
  at 
  least 
  a 
  year 
  and 
  reached 
  substantially 
  the 
  

   same 
  conclusion. 
  One 
  paper 
  was 
  published 
  under 
  the 
  

   proper 
  title 
  ; 
  one 
  was 
  disguised 
  and 
  used 
  to 
  pad 
  out 
  an 
  

   article 
  on 
  another 
  subject; 
  the 
  third 
  paper 
  went 
  to 
  the 
  

   waste 
  basket. 
  Illustrations 
  of 
  similar 
  mishaps 
  discour- 
  

   aging 
  especially 
  to 
  young 
  workers 
  could 
  be 
  multiplied. 
  

  

  