Table of contents: Inaugural address; The problems of geology; The opportunities for higher instruction and research in state universities; The attainment of success; Educational tendencies in state universities; Recent progress of the university and its future; The training of teachers for the secondary schools; Principles of classification and correlations of the pre-cambrian rocks; Central boards of control; The spirit of a university; A national university, a national asset-an instrumentality for advanced research; The regulations of competition vs. the regulation of monopoly; Wisconsin expedition of the City Club of Philadelphia; The university man in the twentieth century; Big business in its relation to industrial prosperity with particular reference to mining; Concentration of industry in the United States of America; The university; The Federal Anti-Trust legislation; Business and the Federal Anti-Trust legislation; The national debts of the United Kingdom, Germany and France and their economic significance; Cooperation in industry; The place of a university in a democracy; John Muir; The railroad hours of labor law; Governmental control of industries; Conservation and regulation in the United States during the World War; Some economic aspects of the World War; The war problem of the United States and The university extension movement.