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THE argument for research in universities rests upon the broad basis of the value of the intellectual progress of mankind. I think I am correct in saying that most men who have adopted a life of research, or have made research the object of their special interest, have acquired their intellectual ideals in the days of their college life. It is through the university that the young man comes into contact with the investigators of his time, and it is their example and teaching >vhich affect his future life. If his teachers are without interest in research the student learns indeed the text-book, but the enthusiasm to create new knowledge is not implanted in him. Whatever his intellectual capacities may be, he passes from his university but an ordinary memier of the educated public. What he might have accomplished, and could have accomplished, had he found himself in a creative atmosphere during his student days remain entirely unknown.
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JOLY, J. The Universities and Research1. Nature 107, 760–761 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107760a0
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