SCIENCE CONGRESS.
OPEXEI) AT WINNIPEG. PRESIDENTS IN'Al'ia'PvAL ADDRESS By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Received 26, 11.20 p.m. Ottawa, August 20. I here was an enormous attendance at the opening of the British Association Science Conference at Winnipeg. I| Sir -tnseph J. Thomson, in his In'migunil address, roninientinj; on tne d : « . tfnetive features and the order of tl.e I niversities, declared that the chief evil n<>tiiea\!e at Cambridge was the extensive competition in scho!ar-V:i Cambridge gave upward of tS.iftfl" year in scholarships. He supposed t !>• | nosil",;! was much ihe same a* Oxford.] This would lead to excessive and prciniluie specialisation. Sir Joseph Thou son the value of mrthen''' ics to Ihe physicist and urged u clovr union of the two sciences. He advocated n further development of the exchange of students between universities, He reviewed the steady discoveries in physics during the past' five years.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 174, 27 August 1909, Page 2
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142SCIENCE CONGRESS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 174, 27 August 1909, Page 2
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