Repository: UIHistories Project: Booklet - Installation of UI President (1931) [PAGE 11]

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makes of mi liocre teaching an i xcuse for the avoidance

of res irch. To tin reall) n t teacher, as fo r the great scholar, the highest rewards of the University should be

open, but one can no more measure genuine scholarship pages published than he can measure skill in teaching the number of hours taught.

A state university has a twofold responsibility for

research. Because it is a state university, it ought to be a laboratory for the investigation of problems of importance to its state. It must carry forward investigations of problems having to do with agriculture, with the industries, engineering, with business, social and economic. blems, the prevention and care of human suffering, blic schools; in short, there is no important ph fe which it should and develop t It must do its work in these field Df propaganda, but always with that patient and sincere regard for truth which is the mark of the true investigator in any field. Such an obligation is fundamental and inescapable in a state university. Acceptance of this fact haracterized the University of Illinois. Many and varied are its contributions to the wealth and welfare of the State, by men who have served and serve this institution. But the acceptance of this responsibility in no way excuses the state university from its obligations for investigation in directions less immediately practical in character. It must take the whole field of knowledge to be its province. The adventure of pioneering beyond the frontier of knowledge, of helping to remake our >rld of ideas and so ultimately our lives, is an adven- \ II re to which the University of Illinois gladly responds, d to its constant participation in which a lone lint- of : " « > 1 bears witness :h as in teach Ottr fron From the very found d

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