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schools are turning out such chemists, doctors of philosophy, by the h u n d r e d men trained to investigation, so that they can improve and develop new ways for actual work of manufacturing, instead of merely using and transmitting traditions. No branch of industry in Germany need want for such men—their numbers and usefulness are seen best from the fact that a single great factory, the Badische Anilin und Farbenfabrik, had in its employ one hundred and fifty such chemists in 1900. There can be no doubt in the mind of any political economist that a country so thoroughly equipped with scientifically trained chemists and with schools for developing them must have an enormous advantage over competitors that lack both or have them only in lesser degree. But such men can receive their final training at universities only from men who are investigators in their branch of work: the critical attitude of mind, the inspiration to original the training to convert the new idea int the new result can come only from men who have thought for themselves and worked out their own problems from w search men in our universities. American univercif i s are feeling the < pressure of a growing demand from our industries for such trained inveMi ttors, and willi this outside pressure ami the inner call to do our share toward the

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