New-York tribune., 1910-05-23

The graduate college I have desired st1Il
desire and shall ever desire tor Rrincetoi, :
is q first class residential conege, oevoteo t5G,
solely to the higher liberal studies. on top
of sound college education such as PIihcs-
ton now provides. This projected graduate
college has two necessary elements:
A body of we'll endowed professorshlps,
to be occupied only by the best professors
precura bic reinforced by others aIready IN
tho faculty, is the one true founoauon ,.1a on
which the graduate college may be built
in a manner which will insure hoth ltS I'M
mediate and it's enduring success. With
ou5 this, archlteet9re ana ,5lt,,,, IN,
sufficient, because the central Inspiration
will be lacking.
professors is the essential thing as the
foundation for all else, the environment IN
which these professors are TO live and Work
is the deciding factor In the problem OF
obtaining them IT is for this reason that
the proposed system of fellowships is neces-
sary in order to secure a nucleus OF stu
OF the graduate college are an equal neces-
sity in order 70 provide the material nome
in which the community shall find the full
realization of it's best desires
OF course, it goes without saying, or at
least ought TO go without saying, that so
cial eligibility is not the test OF admission
to residences In the Graduate College. Such
q test would he silly, snobbish and wrong
The test OF admission is intellectual and
moral worth. L do want to see our Grad
uate College composed of students of high
ability and strong personal power. L am
proposing a democracy of merit, and merit
should be the one and only test.
think the buildings ought to be dignihed
and beautifui-as good as our recent build
ings for undergraduates-s as Campbell
sity houses its graduate students with any
less dignity of architecture or beauty OF
campus surroundings than are provided for
undergraduates the undergraduates will
not think the university holds graduate
students in any high esteem
Then, too, I think the buildings of the
(sOllaQl Should nlAcS1
cious surroundings, with plenty of room for
future expansion. They should also. i'm my
the undergraduate life. but should be suffi-
ciently separated from the central part OF
the campus TO make 1t certain that the resi-
Dental life of the graduate students will
be developed in an atmosphere of purely
graduate interests, and at the same time
Should not be so far removed as 70 inter
fere with the daily resort TO the libraries.
laboratories. senlinaries and classroons on
the central campus, where the graduate
Briefiy. then. my ideal OF the graduate
college is a body Of absolutely first class
professors as the foundation for all else
Then a body of graduate students of high
ability. living in buildings of the graduate
college, which should be just as good archi-
tecturally as our recent buildings for un-
from the rush of undergraduate life 10 in
sure the development of really graduate
tone, and yet not so far away as 10 inter
fere with the daily resort of graduate stu
dents to the classrooTns, libraries. labora-
tories and senninaries or the central cam
pus.
Finally, while this degree of residential
separation-for that is all 7 propose-vouId
set the residential home OF graduate stu
dents In a tranquil environment apart from
the whirl OF undergraduate distractions n
would not mean reInotsness and Isolation
for the graduate college would be visible
and freely accessible to the visits of under
graduates. In the sense above stated. and
only in that sense. do / propose that the
graduate college shall be residentiaIlv sen
arate. But I neither propose nor favor anv
other separation.
because the graduate students as well as
the undergraduates. will have the same
buildings on the central campus. And there
VIII be no administrative separation he
cause the graduate college is and must h.
an integral part OF Princeton JTniyersttv
ana, IKE every other part,s subject to the
controi OF the trustees of the university.
Do need to add do not for Won i am
sure-that the graduate college is TO he de-
voted TO severe and high studies, and that
ITS supreme OBJECT IS to furnish a BODY OF
hignly trained, powerful and pure-nlinded
| intellectual and moral leaders FOR oIIr I,ni
verslty HE and the service OF our country
| In January. 1903. Dean West submitted his
report 10 President Wilson, who revised N
On February Il President Wilson wrote q
eommendatory preface to the report which
was then printed with his apnroyal. The
preface by President Wilson is as follows.
| on the side of university growth. a grad
| uate college, Is undoubtedly our 1rsf and
most OBVIOUS need, and the plans for such
college, which Professor Nest has cNn
ceived seem TO me in every yyav ajn,jrs bIs
To carry them out would unausstionabI,
sive us place of unique distinction snons
n. Ida q, ,usisersitles- : sras he has conceived
4 great quadrangle, in which our crsduat,
\ Studehls VIII be housed NkA housahoIJ
WIN 'Ae' own commons and with Their