The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-11-15
"S|Ot MONEY" SUBJECT.
OF TALK BY EDUCATOR
RELIEVE PROFESSORS SHOULD
BE PERMITTED To DO
OTHER WORK

COLUMBUS, o., Nov. S.-Ray Ly-
man Wilbur, president of Leland
Stanford Junior university, speaking
yesterday at the twenty-first annual
conference of the Association of
American Universities, said tho uni
versity is primarily organized to
bring the minds of the older genera
ton in fertile contact with the
minds of the new. Its libraries,
laboratories, museums are all nc
cessories to this process, he de-
clared in speaking on "Remunera-
tive Extra-University Activities"
President Wilbur said he pre-
ferred to think of the university as
a guide far out in front of the main
current of civilization. finding the
way and pointing it out.
Surely in democracy education
alone provides safety" he said, and
! the university should be at the very
forefront in intimate touch with the
needs. hopes and aspirations of the
race. The problem of the univel slty
then is not to build up barriers
| within which to work, but to study
out how. it can best carry out its
real purpose of stimulating new
young minds. developing scholarship
and of holding intellectual leader
ship.
eff irritation needs outside serv-
ice from our teachers, it should be
given in such a way as not to defeat
the purposes of the university and
at a price. for free treatment begets
no respect. Our experiences show
increased production is the basis for
a higher standard of living and that
production grows with knowledge.
1t then becomes imperative for uni
versity men to place their high
knowledge at the easy disposal OF
the public.
THE question is largely how a
this be done, rather than N oil
principles involved. Universities
have practically always recognized
activities of this sort.
"'The control of brains is always
a difficult task. Thoughts are hard
to value in dollars and cents, minds
will work on when once well set in
motion. Our plans then should be
along lines of control of abuses ana
the preservation of that scholarship
that develops with leisure and the
propinquity of books, apparatus,
students and fellow teachers, and
without undue harnpering of oppor-
tunities to render general service to
society. Professors should not do
chores for the public. They shoulo
be able to render the highest grade
of service in their chosen fields.
practically we must realize that
there is no perfect system possible
for the control of the eXtra-uni-
yersity activities of the faculty. The
students, as custodians of the M
ture, are the primary. but not the
only interest. The time of each
teacher will be divided in varying
proportion between classroom. study.
research. domestic, social and pub
lie duties.
The amusing attempt of legis-
lative committees and others to
the professors work and
his mental activity by the yard. or
hour. or pound. or page. indicates
how our love of system n so
called efficiency often leads us to
do foolish things.
mo such standard gan apply
where the results take the form
largely of ideas sown in the minds
of youth 10 spring forth fruitful,
perhaps only after decades, Each
university teacher should be, be-
yond a certain necessary minimum
of university work. more or less a
law unto himself. depending upon
the proportions present in him OF
those various qualities that have led
him into this particular type Of life
work.
Throughout all our discussion 1t
must be kept in mind that the pnr-
pose of extra-university work is not
primarily to render personal service
or TO secure enlarged financial re-
turns to an individual or corpora
ton inviting assistance, but to 90
pioneering work, discover and pub
,ish new facts and render public
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