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cialized as is research, it should for that very reason keep its connec-
tion with all divisions of graduate work and never narrow its special
eye to the wider implications of the smallest bit of truth found in the
laboratory or library stacks or tentatively guessed on a walk about
the campus or in some lonely nook in the woods or where you will.
In the meagerly equipped laboratories of this University before the
twentieth century and since, the researches of unpretentious scholars
in the natural sciences have been recognized for their value to learning
and mankind by scholars on four continents.

5. Research in the Social Sciences

The social sciences, of course, are lagging behind the natural
sciences. For the most part they have risen in recent times. Scholars
in the social sciences have a tremendous task to bring their researches
up to the needs of the times. Individuals in graduate schools and
organizations here and there are doing heroic work, with civilization
itself as the stakes of social mastery. On account of the complicated
nature of our social structure, institutes for research in the social
sciences are being organized mainly and naturally within the univer-
sities, as, for example, the Institute of Human Relations at Yale. The
Institute for Research in the Social Sciences here is an indispensable
reënforcement of the graduate resources and impulses of this Univer-
sity in the unexplored fields of the social sciences. Together with the
pioneer department of rural social-economics, the departments of
economics, education, history, sociology, psychology, and the law
school, it is making realistic studies and significant contributions to
the better understanding of the human and social implications of our
economic, political, and legal structure. The Institute has had con-
siderable regard for interracial relations with all their problems of
human injustice and unequal opportunity in the present South. These
researches in interracial relations are based on the human attitude
that, with all our racial solidarities and pragmatic expedients of social
separation, the two great races have fundamentally a common destiny
in building a nobler civilization and that, if we go up, we go up
together. The University Press has made these researches available
for the people of the South and has carried forward an intellectual
exchange with scholars and institutions over the world. Five of the
books from this press are on the League of Nations list for inter-
national intellectual coöperation.