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Let us recall our own undergraclnate experiences. Did we not in many 

 cases get most stimulation and make-most progress under teachers unknown 

 in the professional journals? It is to be expected, indeed, that the teacher 

 whose chief pride and interest are in his teaching, and whose chief reward 

 is the advancement of his students, should be of more real value to those 

 students, than the investigator whose hours of reflection are devoted to the 

 problems of his research, and to whom the instruction of classes is inci- 

 dental if not, as in many eases, an unwelcome interruption. Gifts of an 

 equally high order for instruction and for investigation are not usually 

 found in the same individual; let each gi-\e his main effort to what he 

 can do best ; let the investigator work with mature students and the teacher 

 with the immature, and let the distributors of rewards make no invidious 

 distinctions in the recognition of the two equally necessary and meritorious 

 services. 



While it is eminently desirable that a teacher should be also an in- 

 vestigator, in every faculty, some members have more pronounced ability 

 than others in this direction, and it is -proper that such should receive 

 s])ecial consideration as to other demands upon their time and attention 

 in order to enhance their productiveness by favorable conditions. To the 

 others, whose bent is less marked in the direction of research, should be 

 assigned the duties of administration and the committee work, with, if 

 necessary, the high school commencement addresses. Neither should the 

 more general business of the college be regarded as of any less value or 

 importance than research, or less worthy of reward. To be sure it has not 

 the same advertising value, but an institution of learning should be above 

 adopting the motto "quick retui'ns and small profits." The most enduring 

 good accrues to the students, and therefore to the college, from inspired 

 teaching and wise and careful administration. 



It is the part of wisdom to provide as favorable conditions as circum- 

 stances will permit for the encouragement of research. 



Several factors more or less obvious enter into this favorable environ- 

 ment and influence the productiveness of the iiivestigator, but the real deter- 

 mining factor is in the man himself; he nuist have ideas, enthusiasm, and 

 industry: he may even lie a crank; he iiiu>;( Iiave an accurate memory to 

 retain the results of extensive reading, and as much as any one can proti' 

 by good health, to withstand the strain of concentrated and continuous 

 effort; he must be abscjlutely honest with himself and the professional 



