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edge and of character building. In addition, 

 the professors in the professional schools 

 should give evidence of doing investigative 

 work and those in technical schools, evidence 

 of the power of practical research. 



3. Institutional Facilities. — (1) There 

 should be adequate general and departmental 

 libraries, with (a) sufficient number of dupli- 

 cate books for purposes of undergraduate in- 

 struction, (6) where graduate work is offered, 

 books, monographs and other material for 

 purposes of research. (2) There should be 

 modern laboratories^ and apparatus, with (a) 

 sufficient supervision for undergraduate teach- 

 ing, (&) where graduate work is offered, re- 

 search laboratories. 



4. Time Units for Degrees. — Institutions 

 providing for advanced work shall require 

 three years or nine five-hour units^ from the 

 beginning of the junior year for the degree of 

 master of arts, or five years or fifteen five- 

 hour units for the degree of doctor of phi- 

 losophy, and with work in residence.* 



5. Scope of Curriculum. — To be a standard 

 university an institution shall be equipped to 



' In the use of the term laboratories, not only 

 those for the material sciences with opportunity 

 for proper field work are included, but also mu- 

 seums and proper laboratories for the historical 

 sciences and philosophy. 



' The unit in the high school is reckoned usually 

 from a period of forty minutes, with twenty 

 periods in a week. The units in the college or 

 university are reckoned from a period of fifty or 

 fifty-five minutes, with fifteen periods in a week, 

 the diflferences in length of periods and in number 

 of periods a week being due to the maturity or 

 training of the student. 



' The units shall not necessarily be schedule 

 hours, but their equivalent, and shall include 

 credit for research and thesis work. It is of 

 course understood that from the beginning of the 

 junior year, there is the adoption of a group sys- 

 tem suggested by the honor schools in English 

 universities, or the separate faculties in the Ger- 

 man universities, and that the kind of instruction 

 contemplates investigation — in short, science with 

 power — as the purpose. It is the intent that the 

 cultural atmosphere shall perrade the work of the 

 student who begins specialization and that some- 

 thing of the spirit of discovery and the earnestness 

 it brings shall affect the cultural temper. 



give instruction leading to the degree of 

 doctor of philosophy in at least five depart- 

 ments, according to the standard prescribed 

 in this report, and shall have at least one uni- 

 versity professional or technical school. The 

 term university professional or technical 

 school shall not be applied to any professional 

 or technical school that does not require the 

 two years' collegiate training for admission. 



Tour committee further recommends as 

 follows : 



Provision for Recognition of Other Institu- 

 tions. — Provision shall be made whereby in- 

 stitutions other than state universities may be 

 freely welcomed to adhere to the standards set 

 up by this association. 



Co'mmittee on Standards 



1. There shall be a standing committee on 

 standards of five members, of which the 

 honorary vice-president of this association 

 (the United States Commissioner of Educa- 

 tion) shall be one. The committee on 

 standards may invite into conference repre- 

 sentatives of other educational organizations 

 interested in formulating standards.^ 



2. When institutions within or without the 

 association seek to adhere to the standards, 

 said committee shall have the power to recom- 

 mend to this association for recognition, in- 

 stitutions meeting these standartfe and may, 

 after report to this association and its ap- 

 proval, issue certificates to institutions, to de- 

 partments and even to individual instructors. 



3. The committee may employ assistance 

 upon the approval of the executive committee, 

 the compensation for such assistance, together 

 with necessary traveling expenses, to be paid 

 from a fund created for the purpose, raised 

 by apportionment among the members of this 

 association in accordance with the sum ex- 

 pended by each institution for salaries. 



4. The committee or their representative 

 ' Committee is made up of the following mem- 

 bers: President Jacob Gould Schurman, chairman, 

 eac-offioio; Dr. Elmer E. Brown, United States 

 Commissioner of Education, ex-offlcio; President 

 William Lowe Bryan, President James H. Baker, 

 President Edmund J. James, President George E. 

 MacLean, secretary. 



