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A  Counsel  of  Perfection. 
(Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
(  September,  l'J13. 
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 
colleges  for  men,  and  one  hundred  and  thirty  for  women,  and  over 
one  hundred  and  fifty  technical  schools,  nearly  one  hundred  law 
schools,  and  proportionately  numerous- medical,  dental,  pharmaceu- 
tical, and  other  allied  special  schools.  With  this  enormous  dis- 
parity in  numbers,  it  is  easy  to  see  why  the  German  schools  and 
universities  do  their  work  thoroughly  and  well. 
The  state  regulations  and  examinations  for  the  bar  and  for 
medicine  and  various  other  professions  and  employments,  show  the 
need  felt  for  something  more  than  the  diploma  of  university,  college 
or  technical  school. 
A  state  university,  representing,  in  its  government,  all  the  insti- 
tutions of  instruction  in  education,  in  all  its  varieties,  general  and 
technical,  would  give  strength  to  each  and  all  of  the  schools  affiliated 
with  it,  and  its  degrees,  awarded  on  their  recommendation,  would 
be  greatly  enhanced  in  value. 
The  first  step  in  Pennsylvania  would  be  to  take  advantage  of 
the  proposed  constitutional  convention,  and  introduce  into  the  new 
state  constitution, 
First. — Provisions  for  an  automatic  appropriation  of  part  of 
the  revenue  of  the  state,  to  higher  education,  to  be  distributed  in 
the  maintenance  of  a  University  of  the  State  of  Pennsylvania,  and 
allied  colleges  and  technical  schools,  thus  going  back  to  the  wise 
provision  of  the  Constitution  of  1779. 
Second. — Legislative  power  to  strengthen  and  increase  the 
power  of  the  College  and  University  Council,  with  the  Governor, 
the  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction,  the  Attorney  General, 
State  Officers,  ex-officio,  and  the  presidents  of  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania,  Pittsburgh,  Lehigh,  Bucknell,  and  of  Washington, 
