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Caption: Book - 16 Years (Edmund James)
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The Faculty 147 This policy of selecting only the best men has involved as a necessary prerequisite the willingness to pay somewhat higher salaries than were formerly paid to those occupying similar positions. That the purpose of the governing board of the University to strengthen the faculty by this means has been fully approved by the people of the state is well shown by a joint resolution adopted in 1909 by the Forty-Sixth General Assembly, reading as follows:13 ""Whereas. I t is the evident will of the people of this commonwealth that the University of Illinois shall be made so complete in its organization and equipment that no son or daughter of this State shall be obliged to seek in other states or other countries those advantages of higher education which are necessary to the greatest efficiency of social service either in public or private station; and " Whereas, the State of Illinois has imposed upon this institution, in its agricultural and engineering experiment stations, and in its graduate school, the duty of carrying on extensive and important investigations of vital interest to the agricultural industry and education of the State, and the conduct of these investigations calls for the very highest ability and the most thorough training on the part of those entrusted with their supervision; and "Whereas, the great progress of this institution in the last five years has attracted the attention of the whole country, and made other institutions desirous of drawing away the members of the faculties in said university; and "Whereas, the present schedule of salaries is not sufficient to enable the institution to compete on equal grounds with other state and private universities in the United States; therefore be it "Resolved, By the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring herein, That it is the sense of this General Assembly that the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois should adopt such a policy as will in their judgment attract to, and retain in, the service of the University and the State, the best available ability of this and other countries." "Laws of HL, 1909, p. 496
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