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not often publicly discussed, but it constantly comes before those 
who are concerned with the organization and management of 
higher education, and there is no doubt that it gives rise to 
a good deal of strong feeling. We are constantly thrown back 
upon a consideration of the legitimate functions of a university. 
On this subject much has been said and much may be said ; 
but if we desire to be brief and summary, I do not think we 
shall easily find a better declaration than is contained in words 
used by our Chairman. Speaking of a university, he says, 
‘A fourfold duty lies upon it: to provide the best teaching 
over the entire field of knowledge of which its own resources and 
the progress of science may admit; to offer this teaching to 
the widest range of students; to mould and shape them not 
merely by the training of intellect, but by the discipline of 
spirit, so that, wherever they go, they may be worthy citizens or 
worthy servants of the State; and to extend by original in- 
quiry the frontiers of learning. (University Reform, Lord 
Curzon of Kedleston, 1909, p. 210.) 
” These words are used expressly in relation to ‘a university 
so historical in its character and so majestic in its influence’ 
as Oxford. But I think we shall say that they define the 
proper functions of every university, and that any corporation 
styling itself a university, which does not mean to abide by 
every one of these articles of faith, is guilty of taking a name 
in vain. The newer universities, so far as I know them, are 
just as ambitious, and just as high-principled as the old; and 
they would scorn with equal fervour the worship of false gods. 
They are, it is true, young, and for the most part small and 
greatly lacking in amenities; yet universities they are, and 
each one of them hopes, I imagine, under the blessing of 
Providence, to become in good time a mighty instrument of 
wisdom and enlightenment. 
It is therefore no solution of the question of the fitness of 
doubtful studies for university recognition, to suggest that 
