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older students know that the professors are working under great difficulties. In many cases, the apparatus intended for twenty students has served for fifty and is worn out. There are many subjects taught in all other Universities which we do not teach either for lack of men or lack of books, and which we send our students elsewhere to get. I do look forward to the time when the teaching here will be the best on earth. I do not wish to see many students, nor
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even many departments, but I hope that all of these may be made thoroughly efficient.
We are doing today better under graduate teaching than any other American college, but this can be greatly improved and at no very large additional expense.
I am sure that you and I have exactly the same final purpose in these matters. It is my official duty to watch the small needs and to plan the means of teaching.
For this reason, I am sure that I
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always seem to be teasing for or asking for something new. But the University must always keep on growing, and growth with us does not mean increase in numbers but in doing things in better ways, and with a broader outlook on what education should mean.
Very truly yours David S. Jordan
