The Calumet news., 1912-08-15

/ Nf'uN SpNht more than Two nlluloh
dollars In buildn@s for schools, Al La
Plata, Argentina the university plant,
huilding grounds and laboratory cost
something like ten million dollars.
one peculiarity about South Amer
lean institutions Is there are no profess
sors who are strictly professors as
we understand the term in the INIT
ed states. The maigrsty of profcssors
/ ln tho universities throughout South
America @re men who practice their
professions AZ tb, 'sune time they
teach. Lawyers. doctors, cnsinecrs and
architects. and some OF the members
are made up OF newspaper men, pub
fishers and editors These men teach
probably orlv three or four hours Il
week h6t They come right IN from
the actual practice of their profession
To do his.
This practice has It's advantages
and disad,antastsi, ,Hhe disadvantage
lies principally in the fact that not be-
ng teachers by profession they occa-
sionally hack proper t1acning methods
and they don't have that intimate re-
lation with students that teachers do
IN our universities ana colleges in Am.
erica
But there is one rreat advantage
They arc all men of considerable
learning and high rcputaticns i'm their
communities The hes, physicians. thc
best lawyers. and even the hish STATE
officials all willingly aeccpt professor
ships in any of the colleges. Almost all
South American university professors
viii usually be found to he men Of
highest sccial standing and consider
able wealth. This lends a certain dig
nifty to the institutions which is some
times iaclIng i'm the United States In
spite of eur better teaching methods.
These men cf course cannot make
living from teaching alone but they
combine their own profession with
teaching in order TO supplement their
income. There is no question but
that i'm proportion to the time given To
teaching professors are better paid m |
Latin America than i'm this country.
AS far as | know there are only |
three institutions i'm Latin America of |
higher education that are not strictly |
dependent upon and founded by the |
state. one is the Catholic University |
az Santiago, Chile, the second is Mac
kenzie College at Sac Paulo Brazil !
and the other. at Bogota, Colombia.
There are many nriyate schools in
secondary cdpgation, and private so
cieties not religious r,
THE length of time necessary to Sc
cure a diploma i'm any of The univer-
sites throughout South. America is
sreater than il is in this country. For
instance in law, II ;o'lcs, about five
ma sometimes six years TO set gc-
gree. In medicine X,and seven years,
ana in pharmacylt three and -four years.
The law school is not merely q school
IF law. It is a school of Jurisprudence
md comprises courses il; judicial
sciences like international law. econ
pmics, political science, etc, The med
cal course includes much of the prac-
lice our physicians get as internes in
hospitals after graduation.
Some of these institutions are very
nd and antrdaic any in, the. Unit
'd States. AT Lima and Mexico the
universities date back To 1851. At Cor
'oba in Argentina the university was
'ounded in 1913 by the Jesuits. An
hree are older than our Harvard Uni
'ersity' which was founded about the
rear 1910. In all the countries visit
"a, except Brazil. Paraguay and Uru-
quay, the universities go back to
spanish colonial times. The same Is
rue of Cuba. Mexico. Guatemala, and
he Dominican Republic.