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Beginning Struggle for Industrial Education 13 his affairs he would have to struggle hard with much to do and little to show but his bills of expense/' However, Turner felt that if the professor escaped starvation or death from anxiety, his work would be thoroughly worth while and in time even yield him a good living. " I would put no public funds," he continued, "into the professor's hands (certainly none beyond the original outfit) to squander in day dreaming and absurd speculations. I would have every new experiment bear directly on his own private purse so that it might be made economically as well as carefully. You may say that this would defeat all experimenting. But I think not, for you must find a man for such a place whose natural love of experimenting and observing would impell him to it wherever he was and at whatever cost—no other man would be likely to accomplish anything anyhow.'' President Blanchard in reply to this acknowledged that he pined for a professorship of the "blessed green earth." But he did not see his way to acquiring the funds for establishing such a professorship.10 There was little in these ideas of Jonathan B. Turner to recommend them as a plan for building up an industrial university for a great state. They were significant merely as showing the beginning of his constructive thinking along these lines. Fortunately for his reputation he did not stop here. With keen eyes and a keen mind he watched the progress of this movement throughout the country and became convinced apparently that the ideas he had held were entirely wrong or inadequate. Three years later he will be found advocating a plan that is radically different in nearly every particular. "Blanchard to Turner, October 19, 1848, Turner manuscripts.
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