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that the state do its part in cultivating this 

 fertile field of research. Whatever private 

 institutions may do, the state has no choice. 

 The men who are its teachers must also be 

 investigators and must contribute their 

 share to the extension of knowledge. 



I trust that my discussion thus far has 

 not failed to call clearly before your minds 

 the three features which I consider to be 

 all-important in every university profes- 

 sional school. I hope that my brief state- 

 ments have suggested to your minds the 

 varied functions of the university teacher 

 so clearly that you are ready to grant him 

 the duties beyond those of the mere peda- 

 gogue. Routine teaching may be done 

 equally well in any institution. Expert 

 analysis and investigation, however, are 

 limited to our great universities, because of 

 their demands upon space and time and 

 money. The state university which fails 

 to take account of these duties, which loads 

 its faculty members with teaching to such 

 an extent that they have no time or energy 

 left for other items, is not only doing itself 

 a great injustice, but is false to its respon- 

 sibilities to the state. Research opportun- 

 ities should be provided for its staff, and 

 research work should be demanded of each 

 member. Provision for laboratory equip- 

 ment and space are sometimes included in 

 the plan of college organization when the 

 specified duties of the instructor leave him 

 no time or energy for the prosecution of 

 research. Participation in meetings and 

 conferences is important and may properly 

 be demanded of the scientist in the service 

 of the state, but unless due allowance is 

 made for such activities in arranging the 

 individual work of the teacher, unless he is 

 given also some leisure for research, he 

 will not contribute to the advancement of 

 knowledge or to the protection of the state. 



This, then, is the meaning of the new 



campus and the new laboratory. This, but 

 the first building of a great group, is to be 

 dedicated to the service of the state, with 

 the fullest sense of the responsibilities 

 which that service implies. But other 

 buildings must follow to provide adequately 

 for other lines of teaching, for it is no little 

 work that is inaugurated this year on this 

 new campus and in this first laboratory 

 building. This institution is to furnish for 

 the state of Nebraska to every one of its 

 citizens and through them to the whole 

 world by its teaching and investigation, 

 richer possibilities for human existence. It 

 is to establish here in the center of the 

 great prairie region standards of medical 

 education that will direct the advance in 

 medical training, not only within its bor- 

 ders, but throughout all the surrounding 

 states. It has gathered together here a 

 group of trained experts who may reason- 

 ably stand unabashed in the company of 

 any similar group in the great central west. 

 It is to give them opportunity for directing 

 public activity, for protecting public inter- 

 ests, for averting public disaster. They, as 

 scientific men, know their responsibilities 

 and appreciate their opportunities. They 

 are ready to do their work, they are pre- 

 pared to lead the state in achieving these 

 greater results. They have already con- 

 tributed to the advance of knowledge, they 

 are eager to continue that work. They are 

 demanding more, not for themselves, but 

 that through it they may give more to the 

 world. It is fortunate that the foundations 

 of the enterprise have been laid in a city 

 that has dreamed of other great possibilities 

 and is realizing them. Equally propitious 

 is the control exercised over its destiny by 

 a great state, devoted to education and 

 justly proud of its own university. Under 

 such conditions, the vision must soon be- 

 come a reality and other buildings rise be- 



