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composition of the atoms of which all material objects are 
composed; hypothetical structures, infinitely small, which no 
man has ever seen. Why is the General Electric Co. interested 
in the pursuit of an investigation so abstruse as this? Because 
the man who can tell us what holds the atoms , together, will 
place at our disposal unlimited power. If we ever learn how to 
utilize atomic energy, we can discontinue the mining of coal and 
the pumping of oil. The General Electric Co. is willing to risk 
a little of its surplus in the venture of trying to hasten that day. 
Since it is impossible to say what knowledge is useful, the 
university properly takes all knowledge as its field, and seeks 
to increase and to diffuse that knowledge. It seeks to place on 
its faculty men or women who have contributed in some way 
to the increase of knowledge, believing that such meu and women 
are calculated to inspire in their pupils a zeal for knowledge and 
a desire to increase knowledge, or else the university chooses for 
its faculty those who have shown an unusual aptitude for impart- 
ing knowledge, because the ability to acquire and to impart 
knowledge are not always found in the same individual, indeed 
such a happy combination is rather unusual. For this reason 
university faculties should include both types of men, teachers 
and investigators, but the fundamental or introductory courses 
should always be in charge of those ^^apt to teach, filled with 
enthusiasm for knowledge and bursting with a desire to impart 
it. Such only are born teachers. Unless the student, early in 
his course, acquires a taste for learning and desires to go on 
learning the rest of his life, he will never make a scholar, which 
means that he will not get the most out of college life. For 
after all, the serious business of college life is scholarship. You 
would never know this from reading the newspapers. You would 
suppose that a university was great in proportion to the strength 
of its athletic teams, but that is not so. The effectiveness of 
gun fire is measured not by the amount of noise made but by the 
proportion of hits. Scholarly achievements in university life 
are hits, athletics mostly noise. 
Scholarship does not consist in the mere accumulation of facts, 
but in the ability to take a body of facts and draw sound conclu- 
