Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-12-15
COLLEGE VS.. UNIVERSITY.

There Is much confusion In this
country with regard TO the use OF the
words college" aud university, In
England a university Is an aggrega'
ton OF colleges, while In Germany a
university is an institution OF advanc
cd or graduate" work. The German
use OF the word Is gradually coming
10 be accepted here. but there IL so
much confusion In view Of the fact
that many OF our larger Institutions
have both n college and a university
under one head.
In Germany II Is not no, But In The
United States there Is not a single
university that does not have Its col
lego. At Harvard. for instance. there
IL Harvard college. which offers a
course Of study leading to the degree
Of b. A.. and there II Harvard univer-
sity with its graduate school and III
schools OF law and medicine. 70 which
students are not admitted without
the bAGhelors degree. ASAs6sat that
,gess. IN HaryNd Nss fresRpsp 1Are
ltkhcsy a. fSsSrT ysarS course Ha&NnRV "
.tAs fr-An-deerer4s.in nO~ssass-s w.
vorsity studcueS wof can he say truth
fully thaf. he mas been 10 Harvard un
lverMty,s He has been merely a stu
dent Ia Harvard cutiegc
a. n tow Of the larger Institutions,
an Tor instance Harvard. Columbia
and JONAS Hopkins. students must
have taken the bachelors degree be''
fore being admitted N the profess
s,onai schools, but In the great ma
iority Of tho larger institutions this
tx not 10. In all the western state
universities, for example. students
are admitted 10 the schools Of law or
medicine directly from the high
schools. Such students are, strictly
speaking neither college nor uni
yersIty students, And hence the
confusion IN the nse Of the words.
While there Is no university with
out a college attached, there are many
| oolleges that are not connected with
n university. When a student de
| cides TO take a college course. the
question arises whether he shall enter
the college of a large institution OF
whether he had better 90 to n sep
arate college. AT present there IL :
general feeling that the separate col
lcge Is better. The reason IL this
In the large Institutions where III
college and the university arc unde
one managcmcnt, the head PROBES
sors gave themselves for their grad
uate' or university students. and d
not caro- To teach college or "undel
graduate" students, A study OF tn
catalogues of most Of the larger Inst
tutIons will show that the undergrad
i uato students are. for tho most par
r turned over to young instructors M
4 fellows, In the separate college u
|. undergraduate receives instrnctit
4 from the professors. and IL not at u
I mercy OF recent graduates For era
i uate or university work there IL !
4 choice, and the student should go
l. the university that offers the best
" struction. Undoubtedly, tho be
course IL to take ones bachelors d
gree In a separate college, and tn
4 20 TO a university that does not .
70 nit students without tho bachelor
10 degree. In this connection, II
q amusing TO hear students that ha'
10 lnen nj Harvard college, Yale eolle'
u or some such institution speak g"N
az having been university student
h 4, a matter of fact, they ha7 be'
n college students. and haze NOT ha'
4. A. the university nj all, AMI Il : "e
Ii ~s'ouitful II they have received as 10
70 instruction an they wo1td nave !
,s eeIyed in a separate college,
SOLAR MOTOR FOR iRRioATiN
IN 1876 John Ericsson, the great