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impossible to uaine a suitable figure. As a general principle, however, it 

 may be accepted that the remuneration should be enough to attract men of 

 energy and ability and make possible their best work. It is not desirable that 

 teachers should vie with the commercial classes in display or in expensive 

 amusements, and men of intellectual strength would not wish to; It is 

 proper that they should receive enough to permit comfort without anxiety, 

 membership in scientific societies and the. attendance upon their meetings, 

 books and. other professional tools, and also travel, society, and the enjoy- 

 ment of music and art, for the sake of their own broad development and 

 consequent influence in society as well as with their students. The man 

 who never sees anything but his home and his place of business is certain 

 to be narrow. Many young men ruin their professional prospects by mar- 

 rying on a very small income even before their education is complete ; it is 

 no evidence of a lack of sentiment for a man to postpone marriage until he 

 . is in a position to properly maintain a family. Further, it is surely the 

 cause or the result of a second rate qualification as a college teacher to 

 attempt to carry on another business with no bearing upon his profes- 

 sional pursuits for the sake of the increased income. Scarcely less valu- 

 able is the semi-professional routine of tutoring, commercial analysis, and 

 even the preparation of uninspired text-books, for the same reason. These 

 things do not give the best preparation for and naturally do not lead to the 

 highest university positions, though they do bring immediate financial 

 reward ; better far devote the time to some research if there is any in the 

 teacher, and qualify for advancement in the college or university world. In 

 education as in business, both the teacher and the institution may expect 

 to get what has been paid for; if the teacher gives less than his best 

 efforts he may look for less than a full reward, and the institution that 

 seeks bargains in teachers will probably get something cheap — and nasty ; 

 if first rate results are to be achieved the price of first rate ability must be 

 paid, allowing for a long and expensive preparation. 



The bearing of this upon the question of research is evident; to culti- 

 vate the vitality of the intellect it must be free — free from anxieties as to 

 the necessities of life, free to proceed in broad and deep channels, with all 

 the incentives of intercourse with things intellectual and asthetic. 



The story is told of a college teacher who was conspicuous at prayer 

 meetings, that it was his custom in closing a lengthy petition covering a 

 large amount of detail to say, "And now, O Lord, to recapitulate," and so on. 



