90 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



point I want to say this : do not think we are trying to have our 

 salaries raised. I am trying to run that college as cheap as I 

 can. When we lose a man what kind of a man are we going 

 to get in his place; as good a man, or a poorer man? That is 

 the question. We lost Center the other day. With what kind of 

 a man shall we fill his place? Shall we fill it with a thousand 

 dollar man? That will not make a strong college. We do not 

 value the opinion of a thousand dollar man. Neither do you 

 want to send your boys away for four years to take instruction 

 of a thousand dollar man. You want a man who knows the sub- 

 jects and who is personally acquainted with them. 



I met a man today who said : "I know personally every 

 man in the world that is a historian in my field." I can say that 

 I know personally or by correspondence every man who is work- 

 ing along my line; that makes my instruction worth more than 

 if I could not say that. If you are going to have that kind of 

 men you must pay them more than the teacher's salary, because 

 that contact with people, the knowing of people the world over 

 costs money and it takes time. 



We have had a long talk; I have talked too long. I want 

 to say that when we lose a man to another institution we shall 

 have to fill his place with a better man. I will never try to hold 

 a man if he wants to go. When a man comes to me and says he 

 wants to leave, it is better for him to go. If any man gets it in 

 his mind that he wants to go, he ought to go. One of our lead- 

 ing men came to me a few days ago and said he was going to 

 leave us. All I could say was, "If you feel that is what you ought 

 to do, then you ought to go/' These are the things that will 

 take the heart out of the largest departments. We have never 

 offered a man more money in order to hold him. 



Just one more remark. The University of Harvard has 

 sixty men with a salary of five thousand dollars or more. That 

 is the kind of men that make a great institution. Will you have 

 a first, second, third, fourth, fifth or sixth class university. Gen- 

 tlemen, I thank you. 



