CAUSE OF SCIENCE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 597, 27 August 1909, Page 5

CAUSE OF SCIENCE.

— •» : ' BRITISH ASSOCIATION. THE ANNUAL MEETING AT WINNIPEC. UNIVERSITY DEFECTS. (By Telegrapb.-Presa Aeaoclallon.-Ooj>yrlelit.l ' (Rcc. August 26, 11.20, p.m.)• ' Ottawa, August 26. There was an enormous atterfdance at the opening of. the annual session of the British Association for {ho Advancement of Science at '"Winnipeg. The President, Sir Joseph J. Thomson, F.R.S. (Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics, Cambridge), in his inaugural address, commented on the distinctive features of the older universities. He declared that the chief evil noticeable at Cambridgo was the extensive competition scholarships at the college. Cambridge gave upwards of £35,000 a year in scholarships. He supposed the case was much the same at Oxfordi This bad led to excessive and premature specialisation. The President 'emphasked the value of mathematics to the ; physicist, and urged closer union between the two sciences'. He advocated a further development of the principle of exchange students between universities; Ho reviewed the steady discoveries in physics 'during-the past five years'..;