APPENDIX A LIX 
this spirit of originality the country must look primarily to its uni- 
versities, for on them depends ultimately the whole intellectual life 
of the people. The time is approaching, if indeed it has not already 
arrived, when the research university must be regarded as the only 
university, and the task is incumbent upon those in authority of 
elaborating a university system not necessarily in imitation of those 
of other lands, but one which shall have proper regard to the impor- 
tance of this new factor as well as to the past and future of our 
country. 
