The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-09-28
UNIVERSITIES OWE A GREAT DUTY BOTH
TO THEIR FACULTY MEN AND STUDENTS
Should Give Professors the Opportunity Conduct Thor
ough Research Work Along Their Particular Lines Of
knowledge So Institution Would Be Creative

The place Of the university in the
work of original research, the assis-
tance 1t can give to men interested in
this or that particular work of re-
search. and the duty of the institution
In providing proper and adequate
facilities and the creation of a favor
able atmosphere TO better enable those
men capable of such work, are set
forth in the address delivered by Prof.
Frank Allen Of the University of Man.
itaoha at the opening session of the
inaugural Tuesday evening.
THE Twofold Function of the Uni
versity," was the subject of his ad-
dress. and in the course of his remarks
the speaker said that there were two
ways in which university could make
itself fruitful in productive knowledge:
one. by the establishment of research
school OF faculty; the other by giving
every professor who so desires the op-
portunity and encouragement to inves-
tigate the unknown regions of his own
particular branch of knowledge.
Following is the address by Prof
Allen in full:
THE ideal university. like the ideal
state. is yet in the Utopian stage.
That a vigorous university is necessary
to the life of vigorous state is a
principle or policy generally admitted
and acted upon. not only by the Eu-
ropean peoples wherever they are To-
Gated. but also to all ever increasing
degree by those other races of man.
kind which have been brought under
the immediate influence of the DOM
inant civilization of the world. One
can, however. still find communities,
happily dwindling rapidly in number
on this American continent, where
1t is necessary to plead for the very
existence of real university. The
need OF a university is obscured by
the fact of their parasitical dependence
upon their more enterprising and far
seeing neighbors. from whom they
their supply of educated professional
men.
Wherever the university is firmly
established in the appreciative intel!i-
gence of the people it Is conceived to
have many functions, such are seen in
its relation to the state; its relation
to the student: its relation to the dis
covery of truth, and Its relation to the
advancement of the civilization of the
world.
THE conception of the university as
merely an intellectual restaurant to
prepare in the most readily assimila-
BILE form a certain definite amount
of mental food for certain number
OF students every year is essentially
an unworthy one. Yet l believe it Is
not an exaggeration to say that a
large proportion of the higher insti-
tutions of learning in America q use
that word In Its geographical sense)
have regarded their duty as almost
entirely performed, when their stu
dents having been lectured to with
all possible diligence for several
years. have been provided with suit
able parchments-written in an equal
ly suitable dead language-certifyin
that they have remembered at least
a certain specified minimum of what
their teachers have told them.
Must Increase Mans Vision.
mo one would advocate shutting the
doors of the university in the face
Of any student of whatever grade OF
ability provided he is able to pass
those reasonable standards imposed
by the university to test his capability
of profiting by the instruction provid-
ed therein. Yet 1t is nevertheless
true that the capable student has a
lifelong grievance against the univer-
sity If he is allowed to leave without
a vision of the realms of assured
knowledge. and some appreciation OF
the regions yet to be explored which