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myself that I was entering an institution which generally pays 
its younger men a fair salary for twenty hours’ service a week 
—half the daylight time, exclusive of Saturdays and Sundays 
—leaving them free to carry half the normal amount of grad- 
uate study if they wish to work for a higher degree: which 
eases up on the amount of class room service after they have 
earned the Doctor’s degree and passed into higher grades of 
appointment; and which makes due allowance for the petty 
but engrossing duties of department administration. 
To me, this was an indication that the great establishment 
of which Illinois has so much reason to be proud, has passed 
from the stage in which justification of expenditure has to be 
made on the basis of either clock-time or semester-student- 
hours spent in teaching, and that beyond this essentially half 
of one’s time through the college year, and a bonus of a quarter 
of the year in form of an entirely free vacation, is placed at 
his disposal for delving into the specialty that represents to him 
the fascinating part of life—with due provision also for neces- 
sary recreation and desirable public service. 
It has never seemed possible to me that a university man 
who sells his service as a teacher may be tempted to defraud 
the purchaser by trifling with his duty or evading its per- 
formance; or that any such man can bend himself to see any 
justification of such an act when freedom to do what he most 
wants to do is so liberally granted. The privilege of entering 
into the lives of a body of young people such as one finds 
on the campus has seemed to me in itself a sufficient reward 
for the time and effort needed to do the best in one’s power 
for them in the class periods that the limited schedule makes 
possible: and the financial end of the contract has seemed to 
me a means of making possible the scholarly use of what is left 
free of the day and the week and the year. 
So far, I have found very few people who are so misguided 
as to look to teaching as the means of acquiring fortune, or 
who are so self-complacent as to take the leisure it accords as 
a merited tribute to eminent scholarship: on the contrary, they 
realize that they have acquired eminence, if it be theirs, through 
scholarship, and they sustain both, if at all, through a directed 
industry that constitutes the chief pleasure of life for them. 
