ABSTRACT
The relation of science to the fundamental activities of men and to their common experiences is important, but not more so than its impact upon their qualities, and of all the qualities that will be called for in the world that lies ahead leadership comes first. The possession of administrative ability has not, however, been recognized as a scientific attainment, but rather the opposite. The beauty of language can stand alone as can the dignity of truth, but they can be matched to make a rare combination. Scientists have been successful business men, as witness Lord Cadman and Lord Kelvin among others; while in Dr. J. B. Conant, the successor to the mantles of Eliot and Lowell in the Presidency of Harvard University, and in Sir James Irvine, the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of St. Andrews, there is evidence that the scientist need not fall behind his fellows in the world of educational administration.
