STATESMEN AND SCIENCE.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14304, 5 January 1917, Page 5

STATESMEN AND SCIENCE.

APPALLING IGNORANCE.

{Australian ajid N.Z. Gable Association)

(deceived Jan. 4, 5.10 p.m.) London, Jan. 3. Surgeon-General Sir Alfred Keogh, Rectoroorir the Imperial Institute of Technology, -in a speech at London; University, insisted upon the necessity of teaching the classics, history, literature, and modern languages, as well a» science, but;;he depldrec] Cabinet Ministers', and. ; adminis.trators' ignpranee'of ,^ie^ demehtary iacte of natVu^ science, "I work with .them, and findf .in-discussing scientific questions1 that it* is difficultfto get- lo\r enough to.reacTi ■their" lev.el.V-. he added.■

CABLE NKVVS.

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