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graduates and undergraduates, in order to diminish man's 

 ignorance. 



To sum up. As it exists at present, a University is a 

 technical school for theology, law, medicine, and engineer- 

 ing. It ought to be also a place for the advancement of 

 knowledge, for the training of philosophers, of those who 

 love wisdom for its own sake ; and while as a technical 

 school it exercises a useful function in preparing many 

 men and women for their calling in life, its philosophical 

 faculty should impart to those who enter its halls that 

 faculty of increasing knowledge which cannot fail to be 

 profitable not only to the intellect of the nation, but also 

 to its industrial prosperity. I regard this as the chief 

 function of a University. 



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