Show I UNIVERSITIES FACE PROBLEM By ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS President Pre Chicago Ch University More money for faculty members to make education respectable and to enable universities to compete with business for the nation nations nation's best minds is the greatest need of American higher education The money is nee needed to strengthen three key point universities to be pa pacemakers emak rs for all the others In the last twenty-five twenty years the best minds of America have been drawn to business hence American education fares a new problem pro lcm in competition competition-competition competition with big business for the best men If you spread over all the worthy colleges in the land you ou might increase each professors professor's salary as muchas much as You might as well throw the time money in the time lake But spend it on the key institutions and you will develop elop pacemakers that will revitalize American education I 1 would have the three key universities located one in the East on one in the time Central West andone and one on the Paci Pacific lc coast The amounts which I universities are arc spending on building projects and andon on their faculties art are shockingly disproportionate In In the last ten years the University of Chi Chicago Chicago Chicago cago has received and only went to a faculty com com- composed composed posed of men and women |