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students pursuing special post-graduate courses was equal, or 
nearly equal, in the different specialties. Tastes are not equally 
represented in the graduate population any more than opportu- 
nities in the world at large. At any rate, no more could be 
utilized than exist, and if the numbers in different lines are 
unequal, this is no reason why any of them should be wasted. 
Doubts as to the workability of the scheme here proposed 
were only expressed by one or two persons, none of whom had 
had practical experience in the laboratory work, and I would 
repeat that I have entire confidence in its practicability, know- 
ing from my own experience that many students have passed 
from temporary post-graduate employment in the laboratories 
to lucrative and successful employment elsewhere. 
