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be encouraged to show initiative in their search for knowledge. In short it must be our purpose to graduate men and women who clearly recognize, and are capable of assuming, the personal obligations which a true democracy imposes on its citizens.
Americans, their lives eased and enriched by the enormous technical advances of the past century, too often fail to realize that these advances would not have been possible but for the basic contributions to human knowledge made by our scholars, working long and devoted hours in their laboratories and in the field. Nat^lre gives up her secrets grudgingly. The drama of the atom began years ago. Its actors, university scientists in the main, enacted many episodes of frustration before the play got well under way. Its progress was agonizingly slow, and its script seemed highly "impractical" to a utilityminded public. Yet as the action unfolded, its so-called dreamy "impractical" heroes, the scientists, have been revealed as the designers of instruments of the utmost practicality and of unbelievable potential for the health and welfare of mankind.
Stop research, and the kind of human progress known to us will die. It should be a matter of great pride to the forward looking people of Kansas that last year, through their legislative representatives, they set the precedent of providing substantial direct support for general research at the University of Kansas. This enUghtened step will permit the various departments of this University to lay out both immediate and long-term plans for basic research, the results
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of which will at some indeterminate time in the future mean for us and for our children a fuller, happier and more productive life.
Along with the responsibility of fostering research goes that of making available numerous direct services to the state. The Geological Survey, the Bureaus of Business and Governmental Research, University Extensions, the Medical Center, and the Teachers and Business Placement Services, to mention a few, almost daily contribute to the development of the physical, cultural and human resources of Kansas. The constant insistence that these services be extended and increased attests to the need for them and their value, and I assure you that the University will meet this need vigorously within the limits set by its budget.
Kansas is rich in colleges of the highest quality, both state supported and denominational. They, like the University, have their traditional and directed place in our educational fabric. We offer them the firm hand of friendship, will take vicarious pleasure in their successes, and will guarantee cooperation and assistance, if possible, whenever requested. To work in harmony at our appointed tasks and thus present a common educational front in Kansas should not be difficult since our objective is the same — the welfare of our state.
IT is a concern for the welfare of our people which has constantly shaped the character of K.U. Beginning in 1866, just five years after Kansas was admitted to the Union, this University has mirrored the