STUDIES ON MUSEUMS AND KINDRED INSTITUTIONS. 363 



like the German oxaiuination for the degree of doctor." Tliis (Mjuality 

 with (Terinan universities applies, however, only to a very small i)i-o- 

 portion of the 150 Ameriean s(;holastic institutions that call them- 

 selves universities, to say nothing- of the 350 eoUeges.'^ Besides 

 Harvard in Cambridge it may perhaps apply to the following: Chi- 

 cago, Columbia in New York, Yale in New Haven, Cornell in Ithaca, 

 Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Michigan in Ann Arbor. Wisconsin in 

 Madison, California in Berkeley, and Stanford in California. Johns 

 Hopkins in Baltimore has virtually dispensed w ith a "gymnasium "-like 

 collegiate preparation, and consequently most nearl}^ resembles a 

 German university^ to imitate whose organization an avowed tendency 

 exists in many Ameriean universities. Princeton, indeed, possesses a 

 college, but only a philosophical and theological faculty. The twelve 

 here mentioned (Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Yale, Columbia, Cornell, 

 Chicago, Stanford, California, Princeton, Michigan, Wisconsin, and 

 Pennsylvania) have quite recently formed a closer union. Clark Uni- 

 versity in Worcester comprises a philosophical faculty with 11 teachers 

 and 3-1: students (1900), and recognizes the pursuit of science as its iirst 

 object, with teaching as somewhat subordinate.'" Thus ever}' one of 

 the American universities ought to be especially characterized. We 

 can not in general speak of the universities of the United States as we 

 do of the German universities. These matters are known to every 

 educated American, and nothing is more preposterous than to look at 

 all of these universities of the Union as alike. I must let the matter 

 rest here with these few general remarks, but refer the reader partic- 

 ularly to the chapter The American University in the work entitled 

 Education in the United States, edited by N. M. Butler, Albany, 

 J. B. Lyons Company (1900), I, pages 219-319. 



Columbia University has the following six special faculties to govern 

 Columbia College: 



Juridical faculty, school of law, for connnon law.*^ 



Medical faculty, school of medicine. 



Philosophical faculty, school of philosophy, for philosophy, philol- 

 ogy, literature. 



« Quite recently, and after a longer experience in America, Professor Miinsterberg 

 confirms this statement in the following words: I have no doubt that the doctor 

 degree in Harvard ranks higher than in any German university. It occupies a 

 medium place between the German doctor examination and the examination for the 

 position of academical teacher, in part also corresponds to the German civil-service 

 examination. (Znhnijt, No. 35, 1900, j). 389.) Prof. P. Haupt, of Baltimore, in a 

 letter addressed to me confirmed this with reference to Johns Hopkins. 



^ For a better understanding of this subject, Miinsterberg's remarks in the above- 

 cited excellent paper, American Universities, in Zukunft, No. 35, 1900, p. 3S5, may 

 be consulted. 



<• Science, 1900, p. 621. 



f' See also Columbia University Quarierl;/, 1, 1899, p. i:i5. 



