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Title: The Tiger (student newspaper), Sept. 1903-June 1904
Year: 1903 (1900s)
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Subjects: Colorado College Student publications Colorado College student newspaper College newspapers and periodicals
Publisher: Colorado College
Contributing Library: Colorado College, Tutt Library
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sults inevitably in some new form of error. The
truth is very calm; being omnipotent, she can af-
ford to be. It has been so with the advance of science.
Galileo, rising from the rack on which they had
stretched him into saying that the earth did not
move round the sun, pulled himself together and
muttered, " But it does move." So it does. The
representatives of theology on that occasion would

have been in their divine right if they had onl
had the facts on their side. Being right is al-
ways a matter of being on the side with facts.
There are no particular portions of truth which
have private ways for favorite individuals. There
is no realm in which assumptions, old or new,
pious or impious, count for anything. From the
sublimest question of the scientific theory of the
universe or the banking of a great nation to thead
justment of your home, the half unconscious
going in and out among our fellows, we can do
nothing against the truth, but we can do all
things with it—nay, it will do all things for us.
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ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT VAN HISE.
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The principal address of Monday was given by
President Van Hise of the University of Wiscon-
sin on " Colorado as a Field for Scientific Re-
search." A summary of his address is given
below.
Colorado is one of the great agricultural states
of the Union. The value to the farmer and ranch-
man of a knowledge of science cannot be over-
estimated. Two problems confronting the West-
ern farmer are the renewal of combined nitrogen
in the soil, and the prevention of the accumulation
of alkali on irrigated lands. Thus a knowledge
of chemistry and physics is necessary to good
farming. The scientific farmer is the one who
will achieve financial success, and whose work will
no longer be drudgery.


The importance of scientific training in en-
gineering callings is manifest to all. Colorado
is a state demanding many technically trained men.
In this state ditches and flumes are rarely out of
sight. Railroads follow the rivers, burrow
through the mountains and here breast even the

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