New-York tribune., 1913-11-09
Syndic Of New York University Writes for
The Tribune of the Princeton Graduate
School Just Dedicated and Of Plans
for a Similar Institution
in This City.

position of the city is most advantage
ously adapted TO attract students and men
Of letters from other states and fiom
abroad 10 an institution of this char
acter. This city will always offer op-
portunities for men of science. whilst
pursuing their studies at the university,
at the same time to obtain profitable en-
Payments as instructors. writer's or other
wise, thus securing an immediate profit
able recompeEse for the time and expense
devoted to their own Improvement. Your
petitioners can speak with no precision
upon this subject. but if they may be
allowed to draw conclus ons from con-
sideration or circumstance commonly
connected with a university course of In
struction. they would feel great confidence
In the anticipation that this department.
would be speedily filed. and that il would
dispense blessings Of inestimable magni-
tude TO all parts Of our common country"
THE PRINCETON IDEA.
A graduate school for New York. as
thus conceived by the founders of the
university, differs somewhat from the
IDEAL Of a graduate school which has
/
Princeton Graduate School will be the
child OF the English university. while the
New York Graduate School will be rather
the child of the German university The
Princeton Graduate School. in the first
place, lays stress on the home for the
students; the buildings to be first erected
are residence halls and a dining hall,
where all may eat together. The Prince
ton idea. like the oxford idea, is the
n an as a man first. as a student second.
The Princeton ideal is rather the ideal or
living with knowledge. particularly the
knowledge which is the accumulation, OF
past ages, than the creation OF new
knowledge in laboratory or at the forge.
The Princeton Graduate School, as stated
by Dean West In his address last week.
aims to correct certain defects in grad
uate studies that now exist elsewhere.
namely. the worship of degrees, the es-
arrangement OF special knowledge from
general knowledge. the lack of care for
the physical wellbeing of students. and
the lack Of adjustment of students TO
future occupations. The object of having
the men live together in separate insti-
tuition u.s. according 20 President Hlo-
ben. to provide human intercourse, nor 70
exclude IL: and II the manner OF lIe
produces, as Dean West hopes and as
believe he has right TO hope. men com
panionable, magnanimous and free, VINO
recognize that in learning is one OF the
great pleasures of life. it will have Justi-
fed its existence
The graduate school which the found
ers Of New York University had in MIND
for this city, when its population num-
bered 2l3.COJ and which il is the ideal OF
the university still TO create when the
city's population numbers 100000. Is oil
a somewhat different order. IT Is. as
have said, the child of the German uni
versity rather than the child Of the Eng
lish university 1t does not begin win 'he
idea Of the home Practically no dormi-
tory foundations have been provided TOT
German university students, except lor
theological students. This is not because
II would not be desirable to have com
Portable homes for the students out oe-
cause the universities have been COT
cerned with what from the university
noint of view is more important NOT
has the University of Paris approaeheu
d. c,,hiect of university instruction from
the standpoint of home for students
AZ was stated at Princeton last "eeh'
the University OF Paris was originally
residence college. but that was in the
dovs when II was a Church institutoh'
and shared the provision when the
Church made for its orders
At the present time the Latin Quar.e'
is probably more famous than the on'-
versity Of Paris; but like Boston .ne
Latin Quarter is rather state OF % Iillnu