Repository: UIHistories Project: Book - Overview and State of the University (1913) [PAGE 35]

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.s on all field? ( World expel I Mir m r UA\ c a\ as hi iia lhos< j m . m In lU Mleghenit we 1 I thei in th II : i I n : i pro* :h. and utul ut s\ m u lents ha\ Q I s N til V put. | u jI cient understand what the) wen min ini Intl 1* 1 ; | \ altu hi :u ba\ c t: :n t ui liatl ing no I jh and h hai I n i u\ Imii a lai i m rut ds th< ,< to 1 thhold the work from tin nlyi in 1 d ttes wli want it. and th very on< wh » wi want t m t But we a n I a aid i the a lited ach< A i lat n$ N:: :\ percent of the students who v m< to us und( i ai ry w \ pu ired, The i hei til and withdraw : th | tnayg : the) do ua jreat harm. Mam - th ninety per . m w aid o to coll< at all I ft >ur redi \ lati ns p with their high schools, It will not be n j to opt the d ora of the i lie e ol \ :ulture an) wider than we hav< . Vn\ wa\. and nerally, it is quite as w < \x a universit) to give stu ts theii chance, It we "weed them out" in tin I hnian \ ir. and that the weak ami frivolous do not hinder the capable and serio ones, and i( we make aui c that all \\ ho pel our d< s and honors deserve before the) kjei them we shall no! permit much hai id we shall do more Rood than if we folio* uai > a r snipp) i uusc But the time is at hand to "weed out" moreun lu tatingl) and decisively, A the time lor it is at hand the inge will soon come, I AK^in, our man) new students have required main new | o feasors and instructors. Under the neo sities I the case many of them ha\ been young in years and cxpei tu But the) have in general becQ selected with care. Some have failed, but many are makin it finely. Moreoi i we have been hard pre d for means our ver) growth has made ua poor: and othei instituti with mure mom \ have enticed B me O >od ones from \ . Now u arc in th " ti vin > out period, Our teachers have, as a had the best training m the (uiemust hools ol the world, As a rule th(\ are growing, Showing splendid capaeit\ ami spirit. It must be so. oi thej must give wa) toothers whe will* forth* bl » ol the Universit) » m ua teaching, \\ e are in a pas d a D w to be ( \ I n muit exacting when we * ill new memlvi Mir f nitt. \\« aie gathering the ( [uipment in the libra\ ooo each year for libraries now) and laboratories, which stimulates 7

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