. Review of reviews and world's work . f the party to sustain the academic free-dom of the university. It has also been inscribedon a monument erected by a recent graduatingclass. It is not indeed surprising that Dr. Eliot of Har-vard, after an examination of the work done atMadison, should have called Wisconsin the lead-ing State university, for in every possible way ithas endeavored to make itself a great democraticinstitution—a place of free thought, free investi-gation, free speech, and of constant and unremit-ting service to the people who give it life. While Mr. La Follette was governor,
. Review of reviews and world's work . f the party to sustain the academic free-dom of the university. It has also been inscribedon a monument erected by a recent graduatingclass. It is not indeed surprising that Dr. Eliot of Har-vard, after an examination of the work done atMadison, should have called Wisconsin the lead-ing State university, for in every possible way ithas endeavored to make itself a great democraticinstitution—a place of free thought, free investi-gation, free speech, and of constant and unremit-ting service to the people who give it life. While Mr. La Follette was governor, itis well known that he sought the advice andservice of the trained men of the institutionin solving the problems that confronted theState administration. He made it his policy,in order to bring all the reserves of knowl-edge and inspiration of the university morefully to the service of the people, to appointexperts from the university staff upon theimportant boards and commissions of theState, and from this relationship the State,. THE LATE DR. JOHN BASCOM(To whose influence, while president of the University ofWisconsin, Senator La Follette ascribes much credit for thedevelopment of the Wisconsin idea of the universitys obli-gation to the State) in Senator La Follettes opinion, has greatlyprofited. Many of the university staff are now in Stateservice, and a bureau of information and assistanceestablished as a legislative reference library, con-ducted by Charles McCarthy, a man of marked,originality and power, has proved of the greatestassistance to the legislature in formulating newlaws and in learning the true attitude of publicopinion toward them. He has built up an insti-tution in Wisconsin that is a model which theFederal Government and ultimately every- Statein the Union will follow. During the last session of the legislature aSaturday lunch club was organized, at which thegovernor and some of the State officers and legis-lators regularly met the university professors
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