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Caption: Booklet - Installation of UI President (1931)
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of the university itself. There must be competence in ^ ' • t e a c h i n g and research; the determination t press bc< . Ivond the frontiers of knowledge; opportunity for th< as , great teacher and the distinguished scholar. The state ^UC . , , , •-! ^ ^ « « r k « , ^ K k«-i •**•/-* t M « / A P i \ a f n ^ 'in/1 m-/\IJl/n (Tf(".\t 'AVt* ch have prospered f ke Illinois, have had th an wisdom to recognize these things, and SO to assure for n , £* Ithem the maintenance of those conditions without Q \ y Iwhich a university becomes 1) ,n " But states can only create conditions which make s , possible the growth of great universities. They e . vide wisely for their maintenance and _ th e responsible boards of control to supervise them and ce * make possible conditions of financial and intellectual m " security which attract and hold men and women ol ov - quality and distinction. But these things do not neceson - sarily create great institutions. Greatness springs out ol ere the life of the institution itself and from no other source, tier Xhe responsibility of the state university toward the r l ° public is as evident, and as important, as is the responsies -. bility of the public toward the university. If, as all °f experience shows, states cannot wisely lay their hands n s , on the internal control of their universities, if, as has ted been the case, all attempts to utilize state universities it for personal or partisan purposes have reacted disas3us trouslv both d on the j of neither can state universities ever conceive of themof the instruments of any class, or partv, or creed are or faction within the state. Their responsibility S t o the public as a whole, and it is with a clear sense ot public responsibility always in the back of their heads iar that they must go about their business. iey I am not concerned to discuss here this morning the re responsibility of the State of Illinois toward its I'niverno sity. I am rather concerned with what, in this general lis- and public sense, a university like that of Illinois owes all to its state. te. t f I .ike every pe other sort of orga 1-.T^—..'. are in)
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