...as we draw near the close of this allotted hour, turn from details and recur to general principles. What are we aiming at ? An enduring foundation; a...expresses his " Idea of the University," in a page burning with enthusiasm, to which I delight to revert. What will be our agencies ? A large staff of...

...country; a generous affiliation with all other institutions, avoiding interferences, and engaging iu no rivalry; the encouragement of research; the promotion...excellence will advance the sciences they pursue and tho society where they dwell. The agencies to be employed were enumerated in these words: A largo staff...

...country ; a generons affiliation with all other institutions, avoiding interferences, and engaging iu no rivalry; the encouragement of research; the promotion...excellence will advance the sciences they pursue and tho society where they dwell. The agencies to bo employed were enumerated in these words: A largo staff...

...February, 1876, defined the aims of the University in a few carefully considered and significant phrases: "An enduring foundation; a slow development; first...the sciences they pursue and the society where they dwell.8 The leading features of the policy which has been followed are outlined in these words. The...

...promotion of all useful knowledge; the special provision of such departments as are neglected elsewhere in the country ; a generous affiliation with all other...sciences they pursue and the society where they dwell. "What will be our agencies 1 A large staff of teachers; abundance of instruments, apparatus, diagrams,...

...neglected in the country; a generous affiliation with all other institutions, avoiding interference and engaging in no rivalry ; the encouragement of...sciences they pursue and the society where they dwell."* To carry out these aims the requirements were "a large staff of teachers; abundance of instruments,...

...to make to higher education is well stated by President Oilman in a part of his inaugural address. "What are we aiming at? * * * An enduring foundation;...the sciences they pursue and the society where they dwell."32 As to Clark University and its development, Ryan points out its elements of strength: Designation...

...creating new knowledge. The aim of Johns Hopkins as Oilman saw it was to encourage research and further "the advancement of individual scholars, who by their...the sciences they pursue and the society where they dwell."83 Patterned after the German university, Johns Hopkins University stressed the use of seminar...

...president, Daniel Coit Gilman, described the aims of the university as "the encouragement of research . . . and the advancement of individual scholars, who by...the sciences they pursue, and the society where they dwell."3 Modeled after the great German research universities, Johns Hopkins was the first of its kind...

...Gilman (who would also be an ASSA president), saw its purpose as "the encouragement of research; . . . and the advancement of individual scholars, who by...sciences they pursue, and the society where they dwell" (as quoted in Metzger 1961, 103). An academic discipline, in this understanding, was to function as...