ments that have shaken England and changed the destinies of the world. Affiliated colleges afford opportunity for the several denominations to plant their seminaries, thus adding to and deriving from the advantages of the general plant. The arts that are for the Building advantageously placed. Above all else there is ample provision for symmetrical growth and development, all parts growing together, all a unit at any and all the time. III. Experiment has proved and approved the idea of University Extension, effective when adequately planned; possibly somewhat as follows: 1. Dean. DIVISION OF UNIVERSITY EXTENSION. 2. Stenographer. I. Department of Popular Instruction. 1. Single lecture, readings. 2. Entertainments of high grade-dramatic, operatic, illustrated. 3. Lecture series-courses of lectures by different persons on topics more or less related. 4. 5. Lecture groups--instructors on successive days give courses of lectures on extended subjects. Reference library, stereopticon, maps and charts may accompany. Organization and training of local talent for home talent entertainments. Material may also be loaned (rented). (1). University Faculty. (2). Secretary. (4). Stenographer. II. Instruction in Absentia. 1. Instruction may be taken in absentia through lectures, private reading as directed by syllabi, and examinations. Where a class can be formed lecture courses may be given as under department I. (1). University Faculty. (2). Secretary and Registrar. III. Stenographic Bureau. 1. Typewritten syllabi for classes. 2. General university business. IV. Publicity. 1. Editor. 2. Field Secretary. 3. Office Secretary and Stenographer. V. Literary: Propaganda by publication and distribution of articles, bulletins, pamphlets. 1. Clerk. Of paramount value is the University Press, a power for good if judiciously and impartially conducted. Many a worthy manuscript passes into some library stack, or on the death of the author into the waste, because of lack of funds to publish. Many a volume fails to reach thousands who need, by reason of prohibitive price. Into how many meagre libraries and collections of teachers and pastors should the publications of the Clarendon and University Presses go, for example, whereas now they are luxuries to be read of only in catalogues. What is learning worth, but to be rubbed into men's minds and souls? This, then, sums up the teaching function of a University. But all this is naught without a right esprit de corps. There must be built up a noble tradition. There is a cumulative effect of good works. An institution that has become recognized for high standards and ideals, for devotion to its mission, for strenuous service from those drawing upon its resources, gives to its students what is more than money can buy-character. A half century since a band of scholars joined their fortunes and agreed at least in a high conception of their calling. That spirit never has deserted the University of Michigan. Likewise at the founding of Johns Hopkins University scholarship was linked with devotion. Just so President Adams coveted choice men in the grand rally at Wisconsin. There are a certain number of standard departments in every University. Above that, however, a faculty is formed of men whose consecrated powers will put an indelible imprint on the institution and set its pace. Find a man and make for him a place. Better an assemblage of lofty though isolated peaks than a monotonous level. Better, men who make the institution known than for men to be known from the institution they serve. A high intellectual and professional standard; a lofty moral, religious ideal; and a vital, pulsing life—that is a University. IV. A proviso must be inserted for administration. To assign executive work of general character to the spare hours of busy instructors is to work injustice to the man and detriment to the institution, Administration is a business and worthy of somebody's best hours, worthy too of the machinery necessary to render working force most efficient. Brain power is the thing most worthy rather than the cheapest as we are too wont to think. V. It is clear to see that the cost is tremendous. It can not be done for less. To sum up the diagram and its implications: Six buildings (equipped) @ $500,000 each, Chapel, ... $3,000,000 250,000 250,000 Medical College and Hospital, each $1,000,000, .... Eight Residence Colleges and Grounds @ $250,000, Athletic Field and Buildings, That would make a University possible. Such was the hallowed place where the scholarly poet felt that he could "Pace the long avenue, or glide adown The stream-like windings of that glorious street, NOTE-Few are aware that already American Universities have far passed this mark. A half-dozen or more are more richly endowed, and a possible dozen are on the million dollar budget line or beyond. |