SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 
Vor. 1.] JUNE, 1919. [No. 2. 
EDITOR’S NOTES. 
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whether they are or are not directly associated with the work of the Institute. 
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Articles may be freely reprinted, provided due acknowledgment is mails 
of their source. 
The Institute and the Universities. 
The relationship of the Institute of Science and Industry to the 
Universities has of late been subjected to some sharp, though not over — 
logical, criticism. It has been alleged on the one hand that the Universi- 
ties are impractical, academic institutions, which, having obtained control 
of the Institute, are making it as impractical and academic as them- 
selves. On the other hand, it is asserted that the Universities are quite 
exemplary bodies, whose good work is being impeded through lack of 
funds, and that lack of funds is in some way due to the existence of the 
Institute. Now, both charges cannot be maintained. They are mutually 
destructive. Hither the Universities are good or bad. If they are good, 
then the closer the association of the Institute with them the better. If 
they are bad, then no harm can possibly come of their having an insuffi- 
ciency of funds. 
As a matter of fact, the criticism is based on a wholly inaccurate 
hypothesis. The Institute is in no wise “run” by the Universities. 
True, it works in co-operation with them, and is on the friendliest terms 
with them. They do not in any way regard the Institute as a rival. 
They are primarily teaching bodies; the Institute is primarily a research 
body—it employs graduates, it does not set out to make them. If it is 
successful, there will be a great stimulation on the science sides of the 
Universities. Hitherto these, apart from medicine, have tended to wane 
in Australia, in common with other English-speaking countries. The 
young man entering upon his academic career in the past has fought 
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