April, ’23] 
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Mr. C. L. Marlatt: Your courage, Mr. President, I see, gives no 
signs of waning! 
I should be only too glad to speak if I had anything to add to what has 
been said. I often think that the best compliment that can be given to 
a good presentation of a subject is—let it settle down, soak in, rather 
than to debate it. 
I think this afternoon has been something of an exception. The 
discussion has added much of value. My belief is that the clearest 
presentation of the need is the analysis placed on the blackboard by 
Mr. Dean, and the important point brought out there is the 75% value 
placed on personal qualifications. The best qualities in most men are 
born in them; they may be improved and elaborated by training, but 
you have got to have them to begin with. You can’t take a person 
who has not the fundamentals of character, and judgment—horse sense, 
we mean by that—willingness to work, and the achieving spirit, and put 
these qualities into him by education and training. He must have a 
grounding in those elements of character, born in him. 
I would give a good deal more for that sort of a man than for one with 
technical education and lacking in these qualities. Such a man will 
get education and training, either in school or later in life. 
Another thing of the greatest importance to the future of our pro¬ 
fession is that the instructors in our Science in the schools and colleges 
shall have such standing and ability as to arouse interest, and attract to 
their subjects young men and young women possessing these higher 
qualifications. It is natural that other phases of human endeavor have 
attracted many of the better grade of men. There are greater rewards 
in other fields. But if you get the right kind of a professor, who will 
inspire enthusiasm, his students will get the viewpoint of adding to 
human knowledge, and get them somewhat away from the line of 
thought of the mere money reward. We will find I think that our best 
men trace back, as was brought out by several speakers, to the teachers 
in the schools, who attracted them—Agassiz, Osborn, Kellogg. 
I remember discussing this same matter years ago with a man who 
has been prominent in zoological research work and who stands at the 
head of his line of work, and he said, “What I would like to do in getting 
assistants would be to look over the college graduates and pick out the 
men with those qualifications which are rated in the schedules at seventy- 
five per cent. I don’t care whether they have any technical training in 
my line or not!” 
President J. G. Sanders: If there is no further discussion, we will 
