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THIS is the subject of a presidential address by Prof. J. C. Fields to the Royal Canadian Institute, Toronto, on November 8, 1919. It contains a review of the relations which must subsist between universities and research and between research and the progress of the world in civilisation, and it opens up so many aspects of these questions which are debatable that for that very reason it ought to be bread extensively. Though, on the whole, Prof. Fieldss views are consolatory to us in the Mother Country, they also show how much has yet to be done in England, as in other countries, to prevent or reduce the waste of potential brain power in the generations to come. Conditions are now greatly improved whereby the educational net is able to select out of the masses of population the individuals whose mental qualities deserve and, in the interest of the community, require due cultivation, but for the full benefit we must wait a generation or two.
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Universities, Research, and Brain Waste. Nature 105, 839 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105839a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/105839a0