OUR YOUNG MAN OF SCIENCE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1647, 14 January 1913, Page 7

OUR YOUNG MAN OF SCIENCE.

EVERT BIT AS GOOD AS THE • ;'/"•■ GERMAN. Sir William Ramsay, the eminent ohemist, who presided at the University College Old Students' Association on December 2, disousged in an interview scientific young' man and England's need of him. . "In ohemical research work, as in mosi other things, wo have boon far too inclined to rest on our oars," he said, "But this is,all changing, and the romance and vital interest of the work are attracting more and more the young men of ability with scientific aptitude The young Englishman is every bit as good as the young German in chemical work, but ho has often suffered in England, because the young German, anxious to peep ink our secrets,' has agreed to work for next to nothing a' year. "We are advancing in researoh work very rapidly,' but not by any meanß rapidly enough. A word of warning, however, to tho young chemist. Let him get g sound general knowledge of his work, one let him not be too eager to'specialise. Th< man with the all-round knowledge, aw not the specialist, does tho .best as a roll when he starts his career after leaving college."