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ONE of the most important matters to which the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research has to give close attention is the supply of research workers by our universities and colleges. Military necessity has reduced the number-already small-of students being trained in research methods at these institutions; and an inquiry shows that the output of such students must be greatly increased after the war if sufficient men are to be available to widen the foundations of our staple industries by the application of scientific knowledge. People are accustomed to think of universities as educational institutions only, whereas the essential standard of value, and the measure of their greatness, is the worth of their contributions to the growth of knowledge.
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Universities and the Supply of Research Workers. Nature 100, 181–183 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/100181a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/100181a0