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Summer Nebraskan
Tuesday, June 23,
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Editor's Note: The following is the full text of an
address by Chancellor Clifford M. Hardin at the Univer
sity of Nebraska Alumni Round-up Luncheon, June 13,
1964.
As I visit with you today, I want to do so as a Ne
braskan who is proud of his State, proud of his
neighbors, and grateful for the privilege of speak
ing to the alumni of this great University on be
half of a large group of colleagues at the Univer
sity who are Cornhuskers by deliberate choice,
and who intend to continue to be Cornhuskers in
the long and interesting years ahead.
If I were to use a text today, I would use a state
ment quoted by engineers: "You can move forward and
still be bumped or trampled because you did not move
fast enough."
The April issue of a little publication called NEWS
FRONT, which bills itself as Management's News Maga
zent, contains an article entitled: "Knowledge New U.S.
Industry." Here are a few quotations from this article:
"It is not generally realized how far the U.S. has gone
in the transition from a production-oriented system to a
science-based, or idea-oriented economy.
"Education now generates at least one-fifth of the U.S.
growth rate.
"The 'knowledge industry' accounts for nearly one
third of the entire economy, and is growing twice as fast.
"U.S. business spends $17 billion yearly to educate its
personnel, or one-third as much as is spend on the na
tion's public and private school system.
"More than one-fourth of the nation is engaged in ed
ucation (51 million students and 2 million teachers).
"Investment in education has increased the output of
the economy and the income of those educated equal to
a return on investment of about 10, according to the
Chase Manhattan Bank."
And then they refer to a paragraph in Clark Kerr's
Godkin Lectures when he says: "We are just now preceiv
ing that knowledge may be the most powerful single ele
ment in our culture. What the railroads did for the second
half of the last century and the automobile for the first
half of this century may be done for the second half of this
century by the knowledge industry."
NEWS FRONT also quotes from Professor Theodore
Schultz: The contribution of education to economic
growth between 1929 and 1959 exceeded that of physical
capital."
Following this series of citations, the article then edi
toralizes on their meaning as follows: "The Knowledge
Revolution is also changing the economic geography of
the nation. The dominant 'growth' institutions of the fu
ture will be, not the factories, but the nation's intellectual
organizations the research corporations, industrial labora
tories, experimental stations and universities.
"These, in turn, attract industry. This is clearly shown
by one of the nation's most research-oriented industries
defense. Three states, California, New York and Massa
chusetts, have been able to claim nearly 60 of all mili
tary research contracts, because, according to Deputy Sec
retary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric, they are also 'cen
ters of learning.' "
But it is not only research that follow this pattern, for
these same three states are now receiving nearly 40 of
all military prime contracts for production.
This brief review provides part of the background
against which I wish to discuss the future of this Univer
sity. There are a few other items that need to be added.
It has become almost trite to talk about the popula
tion increase. Even so, few realize the magnitude of it or
the probable results within a society such as our own or
on the relations among nations. It is now estimated that
one-fourth of the people who have ever lived on the face
of the earth are still alive. Within the United States it is
now suggested that if, by some miracle, size of family
could be reduced immediately to two children per family,
our own population would still double by the year 2000.
There is also the explosion in "new knowledge." If
we were to attempt to select a date for which we could
say that since then more scientific knowledge has been
discovered and recorded than in all previous time, it is
probably that date would fall in the decade of the 1940's.
I would be so reckless as to forecast that by 1985 we shall
have added more scientific knowledge that exists in 1964.
Thanks to the efforts of many able and interested peo
ple, both within the University and outside, the institution
has been able to make substantial progress during the
past 10 years. Yet we know that whatever has happened
in the past decade must be completely dwarfed by events
of the next if Nebraska is to grow and prosper, and if she
is to hold her own among the states.
. All schools and colleges will be caught up in this on
rush of events, but the impact in the next 10 years will
be greatest at the college and university level. In Nebras
ka this institution, because of its size, because it is the only
institution with doctorate programs, because of the profes
sional colleges and the commitment to research and serv-
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ice, and because it is the single state university, must play
the key role.
Let us turn first to the undergraduates.
All of you can think of an excellent liberal arts col
lege that has an enrollment somewhere between 700 and
1300 students. You can visualize also the campus, its
buildings, the faculty, and the other things that go with
that kind of college. If you will do this, perhaps you will
then be able to appreciate more clearly the magnitude of
the task here. We've added the equivalent of one of these
colleges in each of the past three years, and we shall be
expected to add another on the average in each of the
next ten years. Remember, the increase in birth rate which
occurred following World War II will affect the colleges
for the first time this fall.
Think, if you will, of 60 additional faculty members
for each 1,000 students, office space for them, new class
rooms and laboratories, land for additional intramural
athletics and recreational facilities, dormitory space and
dining facilities for 1,000 more students each year, a new
location for fraternities and sororities all of this while
we continue to upgrade, remodel, or replace space for
such existing programs as music, mechanical engineering,
architecture, the biological sciences, physical education
for women, physics, and English.
Now let us add to this undergraduate program com
parable changes in our graduate and professional schools
and colleges. More than a fifth of our students are now
working for an advanced degree.
The National Science Foundation has announced a new
policy of attempting to facilitate the development of 10 to
12 additional scientific research centers throughout the
country centers with faculty and facilities to do some of
the things now being done at the existing top dozen
such centers. We hope and believe that the University of
Nebraska can be one of these new centers. Such a goal is
within reach if the citizens of the State wish to make suf
ficient effort. And while the dollar costs will seem high,
the possible returns in terms of the economic and cultural
development of the State are enormous, if not fantastic.
We have a strong faculty, and it is improving each year
thanks to a group of able people who 6tuck it out
when things were tougher than they are now, to a much
improved salary scale, and to the relatively new Regents
Professorship program which was born in the Alumni As
sociation and which is going a long way in ensuring our
future academic excellence.
Our administrative group will rank with the very best
to be found in any university anywhere in terms of com
petence and imagination.
We are fortunate that the State chose to concentrate
on the development of a single state university in contrast
to nearly all of our neighbors.
The reputation of our graduates is excellent. For ex
ample, we are still among the top 25 universities in num
bers of graduates listed in "Who's Who in America."
We have this excellent structure which provides a cen
tral facility and focus for our rapidly developing program
of continuing education and which, in turn, is helping to
relate the University's total resource more directly to the
needs of the State.
We have these things and many others a solid founda
tion for further building for the further building of a uni
versity to be of greater service to the people who support
it. This is an important point. A university must never be
considered as an end in itselfbut rather as an institution
that enables a people to do things they want or need
which could not be so well provided otherwise.
Most of you know this, but it is important that you
know we also realize it. What we are proposing here,
therefore, should be considered part of a total program
for making Nebraska an even more satisfying place to live.
And somehow I feel that we in Nebraska have the ability
to accomplish almost anything we want if we want it
enough.
Professors Robert Manley and James Olson are pre-
paring a history of the University of Nebraska to be pub
lished in connection with the University's centennial in
1968. Yesterday they visited with our Centennial Commit
tee about some of the material that has been collected. Dr.
Manley reported that news stories and articles throughout
the nation in the 1890's and the early 1900's invariably in
eluded Nebraska in any list of the six or eight most dis
tinguished institutions. They would mention two or three
Ivy League schools, Michigan, Nebraska, and Wisconsin.
There was frequent local reference to Nebraska as "The
Best in the West." And, indeed, we were one of the early
members of the Association of American Universities the
universities that provided the advanced graduate pro
grams of that time. (Nebraska had the first graduate col
lege in a public university in the U.S.; first in any uni
versity west of the Mississippi.)
I asked Dr. Manley whether this recognition was the
result of the efforts of a few able people; or was there
evidence that this prestige was understood and strongly
desired by the citizenry. He states that the evidence Is
unmistakable the people wanted that kind of university
and insisted on having it; they were inordinately proud of
Bessey, Barbour, Brace, Fling, Edgren, Avery, and many
others.
I then asked him if he could pinpoint the time when
the institution began to lose momentum. He said definitely
that the pace slowed in the three or four years following
1910. There was great debate on whether the "downtown
campus" should be moved. During the years of this de
bate, many important decisions were postponed until the
location issue was settled. Momentum appeared to have
been lost and gradually a fervent desire to excel in every
way gave way to a willingness to settle for something
less even, in some instances so the record shows, to
apology.
I hope future historians will record that somewhere in
the 50's the psychology began to change and by 1964 once
again Nebraskans were on the move, that they were de
termined to excel and excel they did!
I hope Nebraskans will insist that they want in their
state university a significiant share of the nation's most
distinguished scholars and scientists. That we will insist al
so that our other colleges and universities prosper and be
permitted to make their maximum contribution. I hope we
will insist that all Nebraskans be provided an opportunity
to develop their talents to the full extent to their respec
tive abilities.
If we do these things, I believe the results will be
most rewarding. I believe we shall find ourselves greatly
increasing our average productivity. I believe we shall
be supplying quality service to the other states, to other
parts of the world, and to ourselves in greater amounts
than we have ever dreamed. We already have some ex
cellent examples of this type of activity. We have Ne
braska contracting companies and architectural firms op
erating throughout this country and abroad which are suc
cessfully competing with the very best anywhere. We
have insurance companies which are among the best. They
are selling insurance, to be sure, but they are also selling
excellent financial management.. These are examples of
services provided from Nebraska which help to enrich our
own economy.
We can do more of these things if we want to if we
can rekindle that spirit of pride and burning zeal we
seemed to have possessed a half century ago.
It is the persons in this room more than any other
group who must take the lead. In so doing we must, realize
that just moving forward is not enough that it is possible
to make progress but so slowly that we can get trampled
from behind.
Tomorrow is going to be vastly different from yester
day. There is great urgency and even greater oppor
tunity. Let us move forward rapidly enough to be leaders
in whatever we attempt.
KUON-TV
To Present
NU History
"The Problems" will be
nresent on KUON-TV's FRON
TIER UNIVERSITY tomorrow
night at 9:30.
Dr. Robert Manley of the
Department of History uses
models, photographs, letters,
and other documents to chron
icle the first twenty-five years
in the history of the Univer
sity of Nebraska.
The program is designed
to aid in Manley's re
search commissioned by the
University of Nebraska Cen
tennial History Committee.
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