SCIENCE ASSOCIATION
OTTAWA, August 26. There was an enormous attendance af th« opening meeting of the British Asso1 ciation of Science at Winnipeg. Sir Joseph J. Thomson, in his inaugural address, commenting on the distinctive features of the olden universities, declared that the chief evil noticeable at i Cambridge was the extensive competition. j for scholarships. Cambridge gave upwards of £35,600 a year in scholarships, and he supposed the position was much the same at Oxford. This would lead to excessive premature specialisation. Sir J. J. Thomson eniphafised the value of mathematics ! to the physicist, and urged a closer union of the two eciertces. He also advocated! 1 a further development in the exchange of J students between the universities. He reviewed the steady discoveries in physics I during the past five years.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2894, 1 September 1909, Page 19
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133SCIENCE ASSOCIATION Otago Witness, Issue 2894, 1 September 1909, Page 19
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