New-York tribune., 1913-11-09
,REAT GRADUATE SCHOOL IN NEW YORK DR. MacCRACKENS AIM
1t Will Be Child of the German Univer-
sitv and Will Lift the American Me-
ropolis, Says DR.. MacCracken, to
a Commanding Position in
the World of Learning

I which makes the best graduate student
namely. 10 be content with nothing less
than the best-would operate to bring
these best students to New York, provided
the greatest teachers of the country were
to be found here.
New York ought to have endowed pro-
! fessorships. which in the amount Of sal
airy as compared with the amount OF
salary in other cities would be proper
tionate to the amount New York spends
! for other things compared with what
other cities spend. AS / pointed out In
| my last annual report to the Chancellor
Of New York University. We ought to
| have among others endowed research pro-
fessorships in medicine, paying at least
$4,000 a year. comparing In dignity and
| in opportunity for service with the bish-
oprics OF churches. In the hearings held
! by the Royal Commission on the Univer-
| sity of London, DIR. Edouard Rist. or
Paris. gave 1t as his opinion that the rea-
son why the smaller German universities
-Marburg. Erlangen and Wurzburg-can
command the services Of able young men
as teachers Of medicine is that when
man has worked four years at Marburg or
| Erlangen, II he IL successful, he is quite
sure to go to Munich. Berlin or Vienna,
to become one of the giories of the day.
Thus the effect OF the great prizes OF the
metropolis is felt to the most remote
corner OF tho educational system.
A cITVs NEED FOR SCHOLARS.
The business men Of New York are, per-
haps. too much inclined to think OF New
| York in relation to universities, as they
think Of IT in relation to their great busI-
| ness corporations. as good place for
central office, like the Carnegie Founda-
ton, Presbyterian College Board or the
General Education Board, but a poor
place for a factory or a home. This feel
| ing is increased by the fact that so large
proportion of the successful mea OF
New York have come to 1t from outside.
and their strong affections centre around
the home OF their youth. whether it be
! Ohio, Massachusetts,, Kentucky. Canada,
Scotland or Germany; so that when they
come to make gifts they prefer to build
| I'm the peaceful atmosphere OF homo
rather than on the battlefield.
| No city, however, can be truly great
which does not provide a place for the
greatest living teachers. Chicago. st.
Louis Nashville. Denver, San Francisco
and almost every town of ten thousand
people In our great West has thought Of
great school as a great civic asset.
Even the citizens of Brooklyn have re-
Gently turned to the idea Of a university
as a way to magnify their place in the
great metropolis. The King of England
has appointed successive commissions to
take testimony and determine how the
University of London, which was born OF
the same university movement as New
York University, and four years after
New York University, may be raised to
4 the position OF truly imperial university.
| There does not exist as yet In our city.
as a whole, any such civic consciousness
of the Importance of securing for New
| York a pre-eminent place in the world OF
/ learning, and New York is so big and
its population so new and ever renew
| ing itself that IL is almost impossible 10
| create or to crystalline any such senti-
ment. But, as New York University was
created in the first instance by small
group OF men, with the cooperation OF
a small group in the New York Historical
! Society and in the Lyceum OF Natural
| Sciences, and as the great Princeton
Graduate College is not the work of any
considerable number. but only of a bare
half dozen persons, so We may expect that
/ IL will be the courage and generosity or
some single individual, or, at most OF not
more than half dozen, who Will HIT
New York to the commanding position
which she ought to occupy In the world
~ LEARNING