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THE twenty-seventh annual general meeting of the Association of Technical Institutions was held in the Cordwainers' Hall, E.C., on Friday and Saturday last, February 27 and 28. The meeting was opened by the retiring president, Lord Sydenham. The Marquess of Crewe, K.G., was elected president for the year 1920, and delivered his inaugural address, in which he dealt at length with the working of the Education Act of 1918, especially in its relation to continuation schools, and went on to plead strongly for better education and training in the science and methods of agriculture, certainly our oldest, and possibly our largest and most vital, industry. No industry demands for its success ful prosecution a sounder knowledge of the various sciences, including chemistry, botany, geology, bac teriology, entomology, meteorology, and engineering. Modern agriculture is a complex business, and measures should be taken for the due training of all concerned, whether engaged in it on a small or a large scale, and especially in the scientific study and practice of forestry. One of the fruits of the great war was seen in the newly awakened interest of em ployers in the applications of science to industry, and in their greater readiness to find appointments and opportunities for students who, on the foundation of a good general education, had specialised in scientific subjects and showed themselves willing and able to undertake important research. In this regard we could learn valuable lessons from American practice. It was gratifying to observe also the keenness dis played by the general class of workers, who, under the auspices of the Workers' Educational Association, are now, with shorter traditions and scantier leisure than other social classes, interesting themselves in liberal studies relating to literature and history, and in social and political economy. It is all to the good in the building up of an educated nation.
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The Association of Technical Institutions. Nature 105, 22–23 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105022b0
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