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19 and Rockefeller saw and felt when they made generous provisions for the great universities and schools of technology for training young men in the sciences in their relations to the industries and the arts of human life. It is such genius and its applications which insures the world's progress. Genius has been defined as "capacity for hard work." It is far more. It is a keen and active imagination combined with industry, energy and ambition to bring to fruitful realization the product of a trained imagination. This leads us to some of the needs of modern education in its relations to our subject. Genius as thus defined and described must be developed in the student of this age. The imagination must be trained and directed, the judgment strengthened. Thus genius becomes a keen and trained imagination, combined with good judgment and an industrious habit, with energy to bring to fruition the work of the imagination. So we should educate our students to the importance of a clear and exact knowledge of the work of others as recorded in literature, for progress means building upon the work of others. They should then be trained in the judicious and scientific use of the imagination suggested by the great Tyndall, whereby they may be able to see how the accomplishments of others may be extended and utilized. Then the power of observation must be developed, and hence the need tor and usefulness of the research laboratory,

happily reeo aized more and more as the

years pass, in the systems of education and in \\\r o\ aniaatiONH of the tfivnl industrie