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Caption: Booklet - Installation of UI President (1931)
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V e '? ^be I fercnt int rests and eaj icitics. It must devise ways and a hip linearis of sending these out from its halls, some of them hin* I as leaders, main of them just as competent people, but all of them better adjusted for happier and richer and j h for more useful lives in the world of tomorrow because of ht their work and their life here. In research, it must to be ,ni ^a t great numbers oi younu men and women of widely difu nce homogeneous and selected group of students, but with por, I touch and vitalize the life of its state a t every strategic 3n$ I point, and it must also be true to its function as a uniein versify in the search for truth in every field and without •omic question as to its immediate value. The very complexity of the functions and problems of ha a state university like our own constitutes a challenge to ' a t the wisdom and the vision of us all. There is no fixed work I formula for the solution of such a problem. This is not i , but I the time for the pronouncement of rigid formulas in edu*ruth I cation. In this rapidly changing civilization of ours, •'field.I formulas are outworn almost as soon as they are stated. iblein I V^e have less need for formulas than for open and courJways I ageous minds, and for creative spirits. Institutions like f and I the University of Illinois are pioneering in a new world, re of I There are no maps to guide them. Precedent and tradition are of diminished value. Our problem in these : th large state universities is, after all, the tremendous one > wa of the creation of a new type of institution for the needs or in- of a new age. Set, as we are here, in the midst of a rich, changing, :al in and growing empire, stimulated by its life and its probgeto lems, is it too much to hope that the University of Illivond nois, with its history of courage, vision and devotion, : our hall write here a new chapter in the history of popular venhigher education in America? It is, I am convinced, >nds, not too much to expect, provided that we remember two ieo: things. The first of these is that we must be true to our ,wn spirit; that we shall seek to become, not some other •sit ype and kind of university, but a greater and more rery listinctive state university. And, second, we must almilways remember that such an achievement can never be ling he work of one individual, but that it calls for the co* -ring ha (13)
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