The Prescott daily news., 1915-08-20
Strauss Portrait.

The world famous Washington Uni versity medical group, at St. Louis, is shown by reference to an address de- ,ivered between six and seven years ago by Chancellor David Franklin Houston, now on leave of absence to serve as Secretary of Agriculture in President Wilson's Cabinet, to be realization, in part, of vast plan out lined in that address, which, although delivered before the Commercial Club of St. Louis, was really in the nature of an inaugural.
 "A University for the Southwest" was the subject of the address, the date of the delivery of which was October 31, 1908, and the hearers of which in cluded most of the city's ultrawealthy men, from among whom obviously must come the bulk of the money for whatever extraordinary extensions Washington University might make.
 Dr. Houston pointed out courageously how those men of millions seated about him could help to produce for this sec tion of the country a real university" something which many of them sup posed St. Louis already to possess, but which Dr. Houston insisted no South western city, St. Louis included, had yet acquired. Said he:
 No great university can be built up and sustained unless the university can cure and keep a fair number of the strongest greatest. most creative and in- spring of the worlds teachers and in- VeStigators
 Much Money Needed.
 To do this requires much money, high salaries, not because any great man in this, any more than in any other sphere, works for money, but simply because money means relief from worry and command over necessary implements; in short, means efficiency.
 Men of real creative genius are rare and difficult to get, and really cannot be paid but when you get them-when you secure a Huxley, a Pasteur, a TyndaIl and a Koch-you have a university; the problem is solved.
 But much more is required. There is need of great laboratories and libraries and money for operating expenses. An eminent German scientist. when asked for his idea of university, replied that it was a laboratory and bank account, and another said that if he were going to build a university and had large funds he would first equip laboratory, and then if his money held out he might erect a building, and then if he had surplus he might employ some profess ors, if he were sure of their capacity.
 St. Louis the Logical Location.
 Regarding the Pritchett report to the Carnegie Foundation, Dr. Houston said:
 I would not agree with Dr. Pritchett as to the necessity for the elimination of the undergraduate college. Such colleges will continue for a long time to come to be a characteristic fea- ture of American universities, distin- gushing them especially from the German. It is requisite only that these colleges be so organized as to prevent them ultimately from crowding out the professional and graduate schools and preventing the development of true university spirit.
 But I do agree unreservedly with Dr. Pritchett that it would be of immense value to the educational system of the country if a few more institutions doing effectively strong work of real university grade were developed, and 1 would with equal confidence express the opinion that it would be of more value to the educa- tional interests of the country if one were developed here on existing founda- tions than anywhere else in the nation, and that 1t is not probable that any in- stitution elsewhere in the Southwest will satisfy the need,