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Nestor of both American and German universities, the Hon. Andrew 

 D. White, of Cornell, wrote: 



" It is doing a duty to the country to call attention to the evils caused 

 by the scattering of resources among so large a number of institutions bear- 

 ing the name of ' University.' 



" The worst affliction of our whole existing system is the fact that such 

 a multitude of institutions which ought to be called ' Colleges ' are pretending 

 to do University work, while they are in no condition to do the duties worthy 

 of that name. 



" What the country needs is a concentration upon a smaller number of 

 Universities, with a large number, — no matter how large indeed, — discharg- 

 ing a function akin to that of the ' Gymnasia ' in Germany, which might very 

 honorably be called ' Colleges.' An example of a better practice may be 

 found in some parts of New England, where institutions, some of which 

 were up to a recent time called ' Universities,' have become frankly ' Col- 

 leges.' 



" We are about to have Universities which will give us high rank 

 throughout the World, and among them especially the State Universities o£ 

 the West, as well as some that have been established upon large foundations 

 in the eastern part of our country. 



" As to the Western State Universities, their progress is simply amazing. 

 There has been developed an honorable pride in them by their respective 

 states, and this has been deepened by a very honorable rivalry between 

 sundry commonwealths, as for example Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, 

 which has resulted in a magnificent fruitage. 



" While the standard of scholarship is kept deplorably low in some of 

 the smaller Universities, it has been steadily rising in many of the better 

 endowed institutions. The increase of lectures by distinguished foreign pro- 

 fessors at various American Universities of the better sort, will be productive 

 of great good. Cornell, for example, is about to have an extended course 

 of lectures on American History, by a renowned Oxford Professor upon 

 the Goldwin Smith Foundation. Who would not gladly exchange our scat- 

 tered flock of Universities and Colleges, running up into the hundreds, for 

 the twenty two Universities of Germany?" 



There too the important cities of Hamburg and Frankfurt are 

 about to coordinate all their existing institutions of science, art and 

 literature, into great metropolitan universities, retaining all the use- 

 ful elements of successful and thorough education and training, and 

 elevating the standard of work. 



Against the twenty-four universities, and nine technical schools, 

 of Germany, the last report of the Commissioner of Education of 

 the United States reported nearly five hundred universities and 



