Basic Research 

 and the STATE 

 UNIVERSITY 



C. A. ELVEHJEM 



The University of Wisconsin 



FEW SUBJECTS interest me more than 

 the one assigned to me today. I have had the opportunity to 

 carry on basic research in a state university for many years, and 

 for some of those years I was responsible for the administra- 

 tion of a program helpful to research. My enthusiasm for this 

 speaking assignment stems from those experiences. 



Although I do not expect to sermonize, I have a text, 

 taken from the President's Review in the 1957 Rockefeller 

 Foundation annual report: 



Corporate members of the community of science and scholar- 

 ship, the universities have served as trustees of man's intellectual 

 inheritance and a prime source of its progressive enrichment. 



This statement, I believe, gives adequate recognition to 

 the close relationship between basic research and universities. 

 It does not, of course, differentiate between private and state 

 universities. This distinction, I believe, is not nearly as sig- 

 nificant as some suggest, but I will, in accordance with my 

 assignment, limit the major portion of my remarks to the state 

 university. 



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