PAUL E. KLOPSTEG 



introduce serious risk of lowering the scholarly excellence of the 

 department? Could the work be done better elsewhere? Would 

 the pressure to meet deadlines deprive a scientist of oppor- 

 tunity to pursue his intellectual interests, of time for undisturbed 

 thinking? Would the work require the shifting of duties to per- 

 sons of lesser experience and rank? Would additional personnel 

 without academic status have to be hired? What future commit- 

 ments might be implied? In short, would the acceptance of the 

 contract be good for the university? Does it fall within the best 

 array of proper university functions? Objective answers to such 

 searching questions would in some cases undoubtedly counsel 

 against accepting the contract. 



Increasing University Funds 



Since the major responsibility for basic research rests on 

 our institutions of higher learning, it is here that the best minds 

 and skills for work of such supreme importance should be 

 gathered. To approach this ideal, universities must become 

 financially able to provide the environment conducive to scholar- 

 ship and to establish a salary scale which will keep scholars 

 contented. Both could be realized with substantially increased 

 income. How, in view of their limited resources, can the college 

 and university hope to become the preferred habitat of the 

 brilliant scholar? Is there no solution other than pouring in 

 government funds? 



If adequate funds are the principal answer, what is the 

 basis for judging adequacy? The minimum needed is that which 

 assures break-even operation to meet the demands of instruction, 

 research, and such services to the students, the faculty, and the 

 public as the institution regularly performs. Adequate resources, 

 by reasonable standards, would be substantially above minimum, 

 for improvement as needed, and for expansion to handle the 



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