admiration and favorable comment, but it also emphasizes, by 

 contrast, the need of similar treatment at our other entrances. 



At no entrance is there a suitable gateway ; temporary wooden 

 bridges across the brook need to be replaced with permanent 

 structures of architectural value; seven flights of wooden steps, 

 constructed as temporary conveniences about seven years ago, 

 need replacing with permanent stone steps for the sake of safety 

 as well as looks ; the plaza in front of our main building is still 

 in the unfinished condition in which it was left when the building 

 was completed in 1917; collections of climbing plants in several 

 parts of the garden are still trailing on the ground in the absence 

 • of suitable pergolas and trellises on which to climb. Various 

 other items could be enumerated. The cost of these im- 

 provements is properly chargeable against the Tax Budget appro- 

 priation, but there is little reason to expect adequate funds from 

 that source in the very near future. All of these objects afford 

 an excellent opportunity for memorials or other forms of private 

 philanthropy of large civic value. 



3. Scientific JVork.—^lost of the world's knowledge has been 

 ascertained by zealous lovers of truth through investigations car- 

 ried on during such spare time as could be found in lives devoted, 

 by necessity, to other and more remunerative employment. 

 Teachers, for example, in earlier days, were paid to teach ; rarely, 

 if ever, did one receive a salary for the purpose of extending the 

 boundaries of knowledge. Largely within the present generation 

 this situation has been changing, until now we have splendid 

 foundations for the express purpose of research in both pure and 

 applied science. In other words, it has been recognized that the 

 extension of the borders of knowledge possesses large economic 

 value — that " it pays " to invest money in research. The investi- 

 gator himself, and the educator have always known that it paid 

 in other than financial ways. As evidence that research, even in 

 botany, may yield enormous financial returns one need only recall 

 the fact that we are wholly dependent upon plants for the food 

 of the world, and then consider that the successful raising of crops 

 depends chiefly upon the application of botanical knowledge in 

 plant breeding, plant nutrition, and plant diseases. 



There are various reasons why it would be appropriate for the 



