November 17, 1905.] 



SCIENCE. 



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thousand people in the college of agricul- 

 ture at Urbana. I expect to see secondary 

 schools of agriculture established at dif- 

 ferent points in the state where those who 

 wish technical work of secondary grade 

 can secure it near home, and from these the 

 best trained and the best fitted will be sent 

 up to the college of agriculture at the 

 University of Illinois for their advanced 

 training. 



One may ask, at what point will you 

 cease to raise these standards of admission ? 

 I think the answer to that question is very 

 simple, namely, when we shall have suc- 

 ceeded in requiring from the young men 

 and women who enter the university that 

 degree and kind of preliminary education 

 which, from a pedagogical and a social 

 point of view, best qualifies them for the 

 beginning of special, i. e., scientific, train- 

 ing. 



You will see from the above sketch that 

 I look upon the university as an institution 

 for the training of men and women, not of 

 boys and girls. The latter, I think, is dis- 

 tinctly the work of the high school and the 

 college, and the sooner it can be relegated 

 to them, the better for the young people 

 themselves, for the schools and colleges, 

 for the universities and for the community. 

 I have no doubt myself that when our edu- 

 cational system is as fully developed as is 

 our commerce and our manufacturing, we 

 shall see this differentiation of function. 



But this institution will be and become 

 not only a university in general, but it will 

 perforce be a particular kind of a univer- 

 sity. It is and will remain a state univer- 

 sity, and certain consequences for its 

 future flow from this fact. 



The first thought in this connection is 

 one of limitation. As a state university in 

 America, there are certain things which it 

 can not undertake, at least within any 

 period which is worth our while to prog- 



nosticate for it. The old traditional uni- 

 versity of the middle ages and later times 

 consisted primarily of the three faculties 

 of law, medicine and theology. The philo- 

 sophical faculty was later added and in a 

 few instances still another faculty was 

 added, making usually four and sometimes 

 five in the typical university. 



The theological faculty was thus from 

 the beginning an essential part of the uni- 

 versity. It was an element of the univer- 

 sity idea. A university without the theo- 

 logical faculty can hardly be looked upon, 

 from a theoretical or historical point of 

 view, as a complete university. Certainly 

 the vast majority of thinkers would say 

 that the absence of a theological faculty 

 is a serious defect in an institution which 

 aims to be a complete university. From 

 the standpoint of the church I have always 

 felt that it was a great disadvantage for it 

 to educate its priests or clergymen in theo- 

 logical seminaries isolated and monastic in- 

 stead of in theological faculties .forming 

 part and parcel of a great university which 

 is itself in many respects a microcosm and 

 life in which prepares for the great life of 

 the world outside. 



But in this country, of course, the state 

 university can not undertake to establish 

 a theological faculty for a long time to 

 come, if ever; in fact, not until there is a 

 substantial agreement on the question of 

 religious beliefs and practises, at least so 

 far as fundamentals are concerned. This 

 day is certainly far in the future, and un- 

 til it comes, the state universities in this 

 country will certainly not organize or sup- 

 port theological faculties. 



But we have gone somewhat further in 

 our actual practise than our theory of 

 separation of church and state might call 

 for and we have cut from our curriculum 

 of studies all courses bearing upon re- 

 ligion, even upon the history of religion. 



