ADVANCES IN SCIENCE

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27683, 13 June 1955, Page 11

ADVANCES IN SCIENCE

Danger To Liberal Arts ffiee. 8 pjn.) LENNOXVILLE (Quebec), June 11. With the great advances in science and modern technique there was an ever present danger that the liberal arts would be neglected, Sir Douglas Copland, High Commissioner for Australia, said today. He made the statement in a speech prepared for delivery at the Convocation of Bishop’s University on the occasion of receiving a Doctorate of Civil Laws. “True, we need more engineers, more chemists, more physicists and more dentists and doctors,” he added. “Perhaps we are not devoting enough of our resources to advanced teaching in all of these fields, but this is even less a fault than to have a; distorted university structure in whiph technique flourishes at the expense of the liberal arts and religion.” The art of government and the reconciliation of different ideologies, Sir Douglas Copland said, were of far greater importance to mankind than further advances in modern technology. and it was much more difficult to make advances in the art of government and in reconciling opposing faiths.