...research university was beginning to emerge as places where, in Lord Bryce's words, "teaching that puts a man abreast of the fullest and most exact knowledge...covering all the great departments of intellectual life." •" College presidents such as Charles Eliot at Harvard, James McCosh at Princeton, and Seth Low at...

...universities "if we define a university as a place" where the "fullest and most exact knowledge of the times is given in a range of subjects covering all the great departments of intellectual life" (p. 715). (Today there are 125 "research universities" and another 110 "doctoral granting institutions.")...

...345 colleges and universities then listed by this Office, then Bureau of Education. He remarks — Out of this enormous total of degree-granting bodies...great departments of Intellectual life, not more than 12 and possibly only 8 or 0 of the American Institutions fall within the definition. Of these nearly...

...true homes of learning and research', that 'satisfy the somewhat exacting definition of "a place where teaching which puts a man abreast of the fullest and...all the great departments of intellectual life"". The model for the old Colleges was mainly derived from England, that for the modern Universities mainly...