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accomplished as much for the cause of education as any institu- 

 tions in the country with no greter means afforded them. But you 

 can readily see how much more they could and how much more they 

 should have accomplished had they been dealt with more freely and 

 liberally in the matter of endowment, in the matter of buildings, 

 in the matter of equipment and in the matter of salaries for their 

 professors and instructors. I say to you tonight that the State 

 University of the fifth State in the Union in population and wealth 

 should be second to none in its endowment, in its equipment, in its 

 buildings and equipment for carrying on of educational work, and 

 in the salaries of the men who instruct the young manhood and the 

 young womanhood of this splendid State of ours. 



Now, I am not saying that as a criticism in any way of things 

 done in the past, nor am I speaking as a representative of this in- 

 stitution. But standing here tonight before this audience, and in 

 this institution, I feel that I should not fail to point out those 

 things which I see are needed for the education of the youth of 

 our State, and that I should say this much at least as to what 

 should be the intimate relations and active interests existing be- 

 tween the people of the State and their great University. And 

 there can be no doubt but that in the creation of the most harmoni- 

 ous feeling there will be the best results for the University and for 

 the State. Because a university should express, so far as it can 

 express, in character and ideals of the people of the State of which 

 it is a part. And particularly is this true in this commonwealth 

 of ours, for when the State University represents the true Mis- 

 souri idea, then will it represent, in the best way it can represent 

 it, the true University idea and the true University spirit ; because 

 the predominnt idea, I might say the paramount significance that 

 belongs to Missouri, is that the Missourian has been the great 

 pioneer. He, perhaps more than the representative of any other 

 state or any other section of country, has had an influence upon 

 the development of our national life and institutions. With the 

 sole exception of the New England Puritan, he had had a more 

 marked influence in this regard than the representative of any 

 other section of the country. To the New England Puritan be- 

 longs the distinction of having given to the American people the 

 institutions of civil, religious and political liberty which he brought 

 to the new continent. And he has left the impress of his personal 

 characteristics in that country which lies between the Mississippi 

 and the Atlantic. But the Missourian has made his influence felt 

 in the development of the institutions, in the making of the laws, 



