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free from rivalries national in character, and free also from the domination 

 of ideas or doctrines or creeds of established political parties. 



A university union that would coordinate the forces of all persons charged 

 with the formation of the mentality of the new generation is perhaps the 

 best means of achieving harmony of views in our hemisphere. 



In America it is easy to realize this intellectual union because in the 

 realm of politics a Pan American Union is already in existence, charged 

 with the study of certain of the great problems that interest all the States of 

 our hemisphere. The Pan American University Union would be, in the 

 sphere of science, the natural complement of the Pan American political 

 union. Both should contribute to the development of the American 

 conscience and to the creation of new and substantial bonds of union 

 among the countries of our hemisphere, and thus enable those countries to 

 go forward with their development under the sheltering protection of 

 peace and fraternity, and to make impossible on this side of the world a 

 catastrophe like that which is now desolating the most civilized peoples of 

 the European Continent. 



In conformity with these ideas, the undersigned submit for the approval 

 of this assembly the following project: 



ARTICLE I- That there be created in the United States a union of the 

 universities of the Americas, to be known as the " Pan American Univer- 

 sity Union," devoted to the concentration and coordination of intellectual 

 activity in all those institutions for the benefit of American progress and 

 the diffusion of culture in the new world. 



ARTICLE II. The University Union has for its object: 



(a) To develop and advance the sciences, particularly in their 

 American aspect, and to study them under a severely critical criterion 

 of investigation and exposition unrestrained a priori by general sys- 

 tems of philosophy, politics, religion, or society. 



(b) To communicate plans of work, of study, and systems of uni- 

 versity organization for the purpose of creating a uniform American 

 type of instruction. 



(c) To determine annually the matters that may be of particular 

 interest throughout the continent and which may properly become 

 the objects of joint scientific investigation, the results obtained to 

 be communicated through the medium of professors or publications. 



Special attention should be given to matters relating to the educa- 

 tion of the American democracy, to devising better means of tighten- 

 ing and strengthening the solidarity of the States of the new world, 

 to the possibility and desirability of regulating in a uniform way all 

 or part of the organization or the legislation of the States, and to spread- 

 ing the university influence in morals and the sciences throughout 

 American Society. 



(d) To hold periodical congresses that shall have for their purpose 

 the elucidation or exposition of scientific investigations. 



(e) To organize and facilitate the interchange of professors and 

 alumni among the various continental universities. 



(/) To stimulate and organize Pan American congresses of students. 

 (g) To create American academies, clubs, or institutes for the 



