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ural tendency toward demanding immediate
In 1892 Governor Stanford said repeatedly
that he wanted this Institution TO combine the
technical work of Cornell university and the
highest post graduate work or the work of In
yestigation at that time represented in the
Johns Hopkins university that he wished II t.
be a university in the highest sense, begin
nlng TO use his own words, where the state
university leaves on
| may say In passing that at that time the
University of California was chiefly an under
graduate college. In its present expansion il
has largely begun where 1t then left OF, = and
we may admit Il has already gone much fur.
ther in the realization Of the ideals Of Gov
ernor Stanford than has Stanford university.
But we have time before us and most things
are possible with time and patience.
To make university, in the worlds sense.
OF Stanford university the following elements
seem to me essential:
ESSENTIAL CHANGES
The elimination, as soon as possibIe--ct u.
say in the course OF five years-of the Junior
college. by the addition OF two years TO the
entrance requirements This need not neces
sarily raise the requirements for the bachelor
OF approved university work. These require
ments are high enough. There Is much to be
said IN favor Of lowering them to the level Of
completion of the junior college course.
This would correspond TO the bachelors de-
gree of 20 to 80 years ago.
With this should follow the extension of the
university as such and the intensiication OF the
hlgh works. Especially medicine should be
added to its scope of instruction. and other
lines OF advanced work would naturally follow
II the university were relieved Of elementary
instruction-of work which is done more or les.
well In every part of the country.
Unlike the German university. the American
university must include instruction in the vari-
Gus professions OF engineering This In Europe
Is generally relegated to the separate institu
tions. the polytechnicsn. Besides the increa sc
IN equipment the library must be greatly Ell
larged, process at present going at a gen
erous rate. 1t will also be necessary to provide
of scientific. literary and other forms Of re-
search. The means for beginning this work have
already been provided by your honorable board
1t VIII also be necessary to provide for fellow
ships and scholarships The present writer has
been strongly opposed to the present scholarship
system In America.
In America IL is the tendency to separate the
college into two parts. This separation first
accomplished at the University Of Chicago. is
still little than name 1t Is safe 10
propheey that before many years the American
universities will abandon the unior colleges
reegating it the hand to the colleges
and on the other hand to the graduate depart
ments of secondary schools.
That such q proposed change would create
great changes in the affairs of the undergradn.
ate life DR.. Jordan admits. Particularly he
cas cbsb attention ed to the In Discipline
said Dr.. Jordan, Ito deal with great many
men that should be treated according to high
school standards. II we eliminated this ele-
position of German university, where the
students given little attention as long as
the name of the university is not shamed.
In athletics, while IL would change the com
plexion of these events well as the whole
college life, the change would not be great. The
big athletes are now for the most part the
Juniors and seniors. 1t would only mean that
the athletes would get their Erst two years OF
training elsewhere