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THE ROLE OF SCIENCE INSTITUTIONSIN OUR CIVILIZATION'

By Dr. WILLIAM D. COOLIDGEVICE-PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH, GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, SCHENECTADY, N. Y.

Mr. President, Members of the Board of Directorsof Ursinus College, Members of the Faculty, Membersof the Student Body, Dr. Pfahler, Ladies and Gen-tlemen:WE are met here to-day to dedicate this new temple

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1 Founders' Day address at the dedication of thePfahler Hall of Science, Ursinus College, October 13.

few examples drawn from the field of physical andchemical science:Once upon a time there was doubtless a dedication

ceremony for the physics institute of the Universityof Wurzburg, and it was in that laboratory thatRoentgen later discovered the x-rays and publishedhis results in a series of papers which have had soprofound an influence on science and on our civiliza-tion. It is of course the man rather than the institu-tion to whom we give most of the credit. The factremains, however, that the institution attracted himand -he was, perhaps unconsciously, inspired by itstraditions.In the same way consider the importance of the

founding of the Royal Institution, where Faraday did