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Show THE FACULTY AND A GREATER UNIVERSITY HE first step to be taken in the building of a Greater University is to create and collect a teaching staff which will be preeminent in teaching ability, scholarly attainments, and inspirational force. In the case of the University of Utah we feel that this first step has already been taken; in proof we submit the Representative Faculty Section. But this first step must be only a lead to the second step: the encouragement and fostering of scientific research. In a university scientific research and productive scholarship fix the standing of the institution; for it is as important to sponsor the acquisition of knowledge as it is to disseminate it. The University of Utah has the most important of the three prime requisites to productive achievement in intellectual fields-scholars. But the lesser necessities, time and money, are sadly lacking. It is imperative that the present teaching staff be increased to relieve the overworked professors from the burden of too many classes. With the load they are now carrying it is miraculous that the instructors accomplish the amount of research that they do and at the same time do justice to their classes. To the shame of the State and the alumni, money also enters into the situation. The University must have funds to provide the equipment, the library and laboratory facilities, which our scholars so badly need. But in spite of present handicaps we see the time in the near future, when Utah will provide for her men of science. We see ahead an era of glorious productive effort, of genius applied to the solving of the problems with which Nature confronts us. And with the coming of this era we see the realization of the vision now before the eyes of three thousand loyal Utahns-a Greater University. |