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Country and City 



A RECENT press dispatch, reporting a 

 club dinner, asserts that the great uni- 

 versities of the future are to be in the great cities. 

 There are no limitations, except physical ones, 

 to the growth of metropolitan cities ; in these 

 cities the " universities will develop along special 

 lines because of their special environment, and 

 their development will be the best ; " and " the 

 scholar filled with the impulse of service is 

 going to seek his home in the dark gray city, 

 and seek to make it less dark and less gray." 

 If a country university " wishes to study the 

 fine arts, she has to divert funds to buy the 

 objects of study," but the metropolitan uni- 

 versity can turn to the galleries of the city. 



In his address on " A Generation of Cornell," 

 President Schurman used the following words : 



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