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Show 5. It is thought that your professorial salaries may not be sufficient to attract.strong teachers and investigators from other centers of learning. In this connection it is noted that you have no pension provision. 4. travel. My consultants ask me what provisions are made for A University President should come into contact with other minds, personalities, and institutions in the educational field in the East as well as in the West. 5. My attention is called to my established position and income here and I am asked what my official freedom and independence would be in Utah and what the basic income and the collateral perquisites would be. The general apprehensions is that your president might be unduly or unnecessarily limited administratively by the Legislature, the Trustees, the Deans or the Faculty, and that his income might not be large enough to support adequately the inevitable social and professional demands of his position and the needs of his family. - Some lesser questions have been raised which I will not repeat. You can readily see that my President, my Trustees, most of my friends, and nearly all of my advisors are counseling me to stay where I am. If it were necesSary for me to decide immediately, I would have to tell you that I am not available, but if you‘ can give me safe and satisfactory assurance as to the academic and financial independence of the University and as to the reasonable administrative independence of the President and his opportunities for frequent contact with educational conditions in other parts of the United States; the quality and contentment of the Faculty; and the adequacy of the Presidential salary and the appropriatiOns for his official, collateral, Social and professional expenses, I should feel that the opportunity you present is so big that I would be, justified in considering its advantages_in comparison with those that seem to be carried by the position in the College of the City of New York, to which E have been planning to return this coming fall. ' ‘2 Sincerely yours," ' U. S. (Signed) T. A, Storey, Executive Secretary, Interdepartmental Social Hygiene Board. Regent Ray moved that a secret straw ballot be taken .upon the question: "Do you favor a local man for the University in preference to any outside man whose name has been mentioned?"‘V Before action was taken on the question, Dr. Widtsoe asked as |
