"Business Attracts Professors Away From Universities, "Says British Visitor--Darwin Regrets Commercial Taint

"Since my last visit to this country eight years ago I have noticed a considerable exodus of professors and researchers from the universities to the patronage of commercial interests. Large businesses attract scholars away from, their duty of teaching American youth to a place where they can work comfortably and independently as an advertisement to the broadmindedness of the particular firm," Dr. C. G. Darwin, F.R.S., professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, and a grandson of the great English naturalist stated in a discussion with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. Professor Darwin, who is giving a course of lectures on the newest physical theories at the Lowell Institute in Boston, expressed these opinions after a tour of inspection through the Harvard physical buildings.

"Such firms as the general Electric company, the Dupont company, and others can afford to give a scientist every possible comfort without even threatening him with a special task. He is not bothered with lectures and tutoring but works to his heart's content in the most theoretical fields. This is a taint of commercialism non the less: it is also a form of advertising on the part of the company, and depletes the university faculties. In this class come institutes endowed by millionaires for special advanced study, valuable as they may be to science, as they rarely hand knowledge directly to a younger generation as do the colleges," said the eminent physicist to a CRIMSON reporter.

Disagreeing with most British opinion, Professor Darwin does not think that the American university or college is too heavily endowed. The elaborate equipment. Scientific or athletic, although often regarded as a luxury is a definite time saver and should be appropriated.