SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 
shy of science. He could not see how he could make a decent living as 
a chemist or a biologist; but he could count—if he were smart enough— 
upon surviving if he became a lawyer or a medico. 
Now, the Institute of Science and Industry hopes to alter all this. It 
hopes, through its persistent propaganda, to convince manufacturers and 
producers that science pays, and that the scientist is worthy of his keep. 
It hopes, however, not only to persuade individuals, but also corporations 
and Governments themselves. If it succeeds, the Universities will have 
more students, and those students will be better off when, having gradu- 
ated, they enter upon the more serious part of their careers. After all, 
the Universities do not finish a man’s life work, they only fit him to enter 
upon it. 
How the coming of the Institute can be said in any way to endanger 
the Universities is beyond comprehension. ‘The care of education, under 
the Constitution, is reserved to the States. The Institute is a Common- 
wealth activity. If the Institute ceased to exist to-morrow, thus reliev- 
ing the Federal Treasurer of the necessity to provide a few thousands each 
year, not one penny of that money would be available to the Universities, 
which have to look—apart from private endowments—to the State Trea- 
_ surers for the wherewithal for their upkeep. 
All this is well recognised by the Universities themselves. - The Insti- 
tute is much indebted to the great seats of learning throughout Aus- 
tralia. In two States the Vice-Chancellors of the Universities are Chair- 
“men of the State Committees of the Institute. On all the Committees 
are to be found University professors drawn from the Faculties of Science 
giving gratuitous services for the benefit of the Commonwealth. There 
is scarcely a Professor of Science in Australia who is not throwing his 
whole weight into the work being done by the Institute. There is not 
one University in which researches are not being carried out with funds 
supplied by the Institute, often with apparatus purchased by the Institute, 
in the hands of scientific workers maintained or partially maintained by 
the Institute. It would indeed be a sorry day when scientists ceased to 
work together. ! 
Those, then, who assert that the Universities and the Institute are in 
any sense rivals are hitting wide of the mark. Instead, they are working 
harmoniously together, and the Institute is endeavouring to bring the 
Universities into closer touch than they have ever been before with the 
industrial life of the Commonwealth. So University professors and 
graduates sit on its councils side by side with great industrial leaders, 
the one mellowing the other by bringing differently trained minds to 
bear upon the self-same problems. In this way, it is conceived, can the 
best results be obtained for the people of this country. 
One day the Institute will have laboratories of its own. Under exist- 
ing conditions it is largely dependent upon the Universities. But the 
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