ADDRESSES 47 
The touchstone of success is efficiency. The measure of 
efficiency lies in achievement. Achievement nowadays rests 
on division of labor and specialization. Successful teachers 
are known by the successful specialists they train and through 
the additions they make to knowledge. Because these additions 
are published, publication becomes something of an index to 
one’s productivity, qualitatively as well as quantitatively. It 
constitutes a sort of Who’s Who in Activity, valuable as far 
as it goes, and characterizing the unsuccessful quite as well as 
the successful man; but its indications, as the years run on, are 
seen to be sometimes read through the fads and the tendencies 
of the day, and they may not always carry their face value. 
Nevertheless publication gives the most available data for 
judging productivity, and the day of oral transmission of 
knowledge has so far passed that it now constitutes the prin- 
cipal means of such transmission. Publication of the detailed 
results of investigation, of the human interest phases of such 
results, and of popularly comprehensible introductions to the 
sciences has become a duty of everyone who has that which 
may be shared with others through this channel, 
What is true of the individual is true of the organization. 
To do its work effectively, our Academy must stimulate inves- 
tigation through its meetings; and it must make public its ac- 
quisitions. It is greatly to your credit that this fact, recognized 
clearly from the first, has been applied in the issuance of 
annual volumes that contain much of interest to the general 
public and stimulating to the teacher, and much that future 
investigators must reckon on in their work. This has been 
done under great difficulties, and money has not been found 
for making publication either as full or as prompt as the merit 
of the Academy’s papers demand. The prospect is now most 
hopeful that the commonwealth will meet a request for funds 
that will enable your officers to publish promptly and fully— 
if in modest form— what you contribute to science and its 
popularization through these meetings, and to distribute your 
Transactions broadcast through the State so that every investi- 
gator and every teacher may make free use of them. It is our 
solemn obligation to see that through publicity we make a 
record, collectively and individually, in which we and the 
State may take pride. 
