Evening journal., 1921-02-16
DIR. HULLIHEN
URGES STATE
UNIVERSITY
CONTINUED from First Page)

ment for Vocational Rehabilitation
OF ex-Sery1ce men; the Women's
College includes a School OF Arts
and Science. n School OF Education
or Teacher Training, and a School
OF Home Economies. Twelve stand
ard courses are offered leading 10
different baccalaureate degrees and
FIVE courses leading to graduate
degrees.
THE only suitable name, the
only name that can be found in
American educational nomenclature,
to embrace all OF these colleges,
schools and departments is the
name university
such single comprehensive
name would not only be more con-
venient and appropriate but would
tend 10 create a closer sense OF
unity in the institution and would
make clear the relation OF all the
parts 20 the whole in such a way as
TO simplify greatly many problems
OF internal organization and admin
istration. II would possess the fur
ther advantage OF bringing constant
" to the attention OF all the people
OF the State the fact that the insti-
tuition belongs TO them. is the seat
Of the States system OF higher edu-
cation and demands and deserves
the same degree OF interest on their
part as their elementary and secon-
Diary public school system
Asked for a definition OF the word
"universitv" DR.. Hullihen replied
that there Is no universally accept
ed and authoritative definition OF
the word as used in the United
states. The dictionary throws 1T
n, light on the subject ne SAID
..the etymology and earliest use OF the
word as applied to education Is not
anniicable today. and the opinions
~ educators and writers diner wide
lv. Consequently one Is forceo 10
examine the history OF the use OF
he term. especially its use In this
country in the last fifty years, in or
der to arrive at proper conception
OF what the word connotes at pres
ent In America
"rhe word university (universi-
tas) as first applied in the fifteenth
and sixteenth centuries 20 groups
~ students gathered together Tor
nurposes OF study meant nothing
moro than union combination OF
guild II had nothing TO do with
ltbe idea Of universally or com
nrehension Of all forms OF knowl-
edge, which seems TO attach TO II
now in the minds OF many people
little later the name university
raorA 20 Tnfar 70
the group OF scholars and theii
work at any particular place; as the
, University OF Paris, the University
of Bologna The term then be
came a common one for any sea
of higher learning in Europe. BIZ
ro4hine can be learned for our nur
roses from a study OF the organ!za
i.on Of early or more recent Euro
pean universities.
1T is from the early Europeal
university that the idea has beoom
prevalent among some well-inform
ed people that real universit,
, must embrace a faculty OF arts ant
science. a faculty OF medicine,
faculty OF law. and faculty o
. theology. But the application o
4 this as a requirement would ex
: clude more than nine-tenths OF eve
, the best OF the institutions bearin
the name in the United States, in
Guiding such institutions as John
. Hopkins. Princeton, Cornell and a.
OF the State universities.
r 'Not many years ago Professo
Won Hoist. OF the University o
2 Chicago. made the statement tina
n there was not a single university {
a the European sense OF the term. 1
i the United States. DR. Butler. q
Columbia University. replying, cal
ed attention 10 the radical differ
q cnces in the plan and organizatio
: OF such universities as the UniveI
a sity Of France. the University {
2 Berlin, and oxford University, In
> dicating that there f. no agreemer
10 IT. Europe as to what a universit
N should be. and pointed out that th
.e organization. ideals and purposes
l. European educational systems du
Al FER so fundamentally from our ov
that they cannot afford a tradition
r al OF historic precedent for our edt
Ie cational terminology. Dr. Butler
D. conception OF a university is th'
,f it should be an institution whei
Al adequately trained students ha'
le opportunity TO go beyond the wor
II OF the standard college and engal
in individual research. and whei
by the agency OF Libraries, museum
laboratories and publication
knowledge Is conserved. advance
N and disseminated. The difficult
n about accepting this definition
that Il is vague and does not see
to be based upon the authority
" history. tradition. or American u
al age II merely presents what oi
at distinguished educator thinks
d university in the United Stat
he ought TO be. The fact that Dr. Blu
a ier's application OF II excluded .
)n but six or eight American instit
=, tions proves conclusively that
s. conception Is not that in vogue
Of the United States. where we ha
'n seventy 10 eighty accredited inst
n tutions called universities.
since, therefore, we can find
M criterion in the etymology OF q
ne word. nor in the ancient or mode
n European institution OF the sar
n name. and since no governmental
o other authority has assumed or be
given the right to decide wh
&c should be the constitution and for
OF a university, we must find the a
G swer TO our question in the use
- the term as applied to worthy a
r. accredited institutions in the Unit
IN States.