CHEMISTRY RESEARCH
Palmerston North. Aup 30. Addressing the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry at its conference in Palmerston North yesterday. Dr. F. It. Sborland, of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Wellington, made an appeal to raise the standard of chemistry in the Dominion. He said they must take note of an increasing awareness in the universities that some positive if not revolutionary action would have to be taken if New Zealand was to become attractive to men of ability A recent statement by university men in this country deplored tlip present defeatist altitude that New Zealand could not afford to keep a good man. and held rightly that New Zealand could not afford to lose ihe girnd man. "We must judge our graduates and the universities not from the point of view of examinable knowledge, but from Ihe contributions that they make to the world’s knowledge. - ’ he said. "Research is the life blood of a university.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 31 August 1945, Page 2
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