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plan and supervise its work and expenditures, and control its staff to 

 such an extent as will bring them together to work as a unit for the 

 promotion of the station's success. The members of the staff should 

 be directly responsible to the director on all matters relating to the 

 station, whatever their position may be in other departments of the 

 college, and should expect to transact station business through the 

 director rather than through the college president or the governing 

 board, A proper independence in the conduct of investigations, or 

 parts of investigation, in their respective specialties, and just credit 

 for their share in the station's operations as set forth in publications, 

 or otherwise, may, it is believed, be amply secured for the expert offi- 

 cers of the stations at the same time that good discipline is maintained 

 and ample provision made for united effort. 



No class of men need to readjust their professional code to the modern 

 requirements of the organization of great scientific and educational 

 enterprises more than college professors and scientific specialists. A 

 way must be found by which teaching and research can be conducted 

 on a system which combines liberty with law. The old regime of the 

 entirely independent teacher and investigator has passed away. The 

 specialization, which is simply a form of the division of labor well- 

 known in industrial pursuits, carries with it a necessity for combination 

 of workers in educational and scientific institutions as well as in manu- 

 facturing establishments. In a wa}^ hitherto unknown scientific men 

 will be called in the future to work together for common ends. 



One of the greatest difficulties in the management of these institu- 

 tions arises from the fact that while specialization has narrowed the 

 field and outlook of the individual officer, there has not been a corre- 

 sponding recognition of the necessity of readjusting the form of 

 organization and the spirit of the worker to meet these new conditions. 

 At no time has there been greater need of the cultivation of an earnest 

 and enthusiastic eHpr'it du corps among the rank and file of educational 

 and scientific workers. Obviously it should especially be a virtue 

 characteristic of men connected with public institutions. The officers 

 of our agricultural colleges and experiment stations are pul)lic func- 

 tionaries employed to advance very important public interests. With 

 them the good of the community, as involved in the success of the 

 enterprise with which they are connected, should be the ruling motive 

 of action. The fame and emoluments of the individual worker should 

 be subordinated to the requirements of concerted action for a common 

 end. And yet in the long run it is believed the individual worker as 

 well as the institution will profit bj^ a loyal and self-sacrificing dis- 

 charge of common duties; for union of effort will bring greater suc- 

 cess, and whenever a college or a station is strong and flourishing 

 credit is reflected on every worker who has contributed to this issue. 



