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"  to  speak  "  in  those  preelocutionary  days.  Had  he  lapsed  just  a 
fraction  of  time  he  would  have  recalled  the  title  of  the  "piece," 
"  How  Cyrus  Laid  the  Cable  "  and  given  Marshall  the  credit  for 
the  other  achievement  in  Chicago. 
To  Cyrus  W.  Field,  a  capitalist  of  New  York  City,  must  be  given 
the  glory  of  the  conception  of  an  Atlantic  cable  and  the  successful 
completion  of  one  after  ten  years  of  repeated  failures  at  home  and 
abroad. 
He  won  out  by  his  determination  that  the  few  real  difficulties 
could  be  overcome  if  they  would  simply  keep  at  the  game  of  getting 
after  them. 
This  he  did  with  large  capital,  the  best  of  electrical  science  and 
a  great  amount  of  good  sense.  And  the  thing  went  to  the  bottom  of 
the  sea  to  talk  around  the  world  and  has  been  doing  so  for  sixty 
years. 
Did  Professor  Kraemer  try  a  wire-less  joker  on  the  Philosophical 
Society,  I  wonder? 
Raising  medicinal  plants  is  a  science  from  beginning  to  end; 
trained  men.  must  follow  it  from  selection  of  seed  to  selection  of 
soil,  to  culture,  harvesting,  storing,  to  mercantile  work,  to  the  testing 
of  physiological,  chemical  and  therapeutic  values. 
So  that  one  feature  miltates  in  a  great  measure  against  indi- 
vidual enterprise,  but  makes  life  worth  while  with  a  cheerful  com- 
pany of  "  harvesters." 
We  have  all  things  needful  in  this  great  country  as  Professor 
Kraemer  relates  seeds,  space,  time  and  money.  Are  we  then  so 
lacking  in  national  sentiment  by  not  "  turning  the  sod  "  at  home,  as 
to  be  helping  the  "  Hun  with  his  Hyoscyamus "  and  other  things 
abroad? 
I  am  too  old  at  present  to  "  take  up  the  gun  "  but  am  young  enough 
to  "  hoe  the  herb "  with  the  other  great  big  healthy,  happy,  har- 
vesters.  Let's  get  the  habit.  Joseph  Crawford. 
THE  FAIRCHILD  SCHOLARSHIP. 
September  2,  1918. 
The  action  taken  at  the  Indianapolis  meeting  relative  to  the 
award  of  the  Fairchild  Scholarship  for  this  year  is  expressed  in 
Recommendation  No.  5  of  President  R.  A.  Lyman's  address,  and 
which  reads : 
