Essays and addresses / by professors and lectures of the Owens College, Manchester.

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1874
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Credit: Essays and addresses / by professors and lectures of the Owens College, Manchester. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    п.] AS А MEANS OF EDUCATION. 45 ships as rewards for accomplished original work, agree so completely with my own views on this subject, that I cannot forbear quoting it. We have also already spoken of the propriety of awarding Fellowships in certain instances, not, as at present, by an examination test, but for services rendered to science in original research. Although we should wish, as we have already said, to see this done from time to time (as it has already been done at Cambridge) in the case of persons who have already made themselves eminent in science, and whose accepting the Fellowship is rather to confer an honour upon the office than to receive one from it ; we also think that a wider application should be given to this principle ; and that, whenever a Fellowship in Natural Science is offered for competition among the younger graduates of the University, such evidence as any candidate can offer of his aptitude to become a useful Worker in science should always be taken into account in the award. Nothing, we believe, would tend to give the students at the Universities so just an idea of what science is, or of what the objects are which those who pursue it should have in view, as the adop¬ tion of the principle by the Universities and the Col¬ leges, that the highest honours and rewards in Natural Science are to be conferred upon men who can offer some evidence that , their names are likely afterwards to find a place on the list of those who have added to human knowledge. In addition to the above-mentioned recommenda¬ tions, the Commissioners suggest—(i) that laboratories should be founded expressly intended for research and
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