Excerpt from Biennial Report of the President of the University on Behalf of the Regents to His Excellency the Governor of the State: 1908-1910 The first and most serious difficulty Which confront an institution established at so great a distance from the usual centres of population and culture is connected with the supply of teachers. No university can be worthy of the name which proceeds in a merely mechanical manner to provide instruction. Education, in spite of all ma chinery, will always remain essentially a matter of person alities. It has not always been easy for us either to attract to our teaching force the best men, nor to keep them after we have had them here. Our most ambitious young men are naturally attracted back toward the East, where the stimulus arising from association is greater, and the oppor tanitics of scientific and educational assemblies, of libraries, and other equipments are superior. If we are to maintain our institution on the high standard which we have theo retically set for it we must be sure that we select our teachers from among the best. We must, therefore, be willing and able to pay the salaries that belong to the best. At present our salary scale is quite decidedly below that of the leading institutions of the East. If anything it should, for various reasons, be higher. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.