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American scholarship will be judged, not by the quantity of routine work produced by routine workers, but by, the small amount of first class output of those who, in whatever branch stand in in the first rank. No industry in combination and in combination will ever take the place of this first-hand original work, this productive and creative work, whether in science, in art, in literature. The greatest special function of a college, as distinguished from its general function of producing good citizenship, should be so to shape conditions as to put a premium upon the development of productive...
...under his direction. The capacity of the plant, which is the most efficient and powerful yet devised, is about half a gallon of liquid air per hour. The machinery has been installed and tested under the superintendence of the director of the laboratory, Professor C. R. Sanger. The first output of liquid air was immediately employed in research work under the direction of Professor T. W. Richards, and the apparatus will be used frequently to provide material for future investigations in the laboratory...
...short, President Eliot maintains that Harvard is unshaken in its adherence to the highest standards for both undergraduate and professional departments and shows that this policy strengthens a university numerically, in the long run, in both its higher and its lower members, while assuring to itself a uniform output of highly and liberally trained youth. Dean Briggs n his report to the President on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences touches briefly on the subject, from the standpoint of the College. "I write," he says, "as one who holds that the College is the very heart of the University...
...that are really only colleges are often mistaken abroad for "universities"; that the opportunities offered students here are not inferior to those abroad; that the theoretical courses especially flourish; that the doctor's degree of the best American universities is superior to the average degree in Germany; that the output of new books in every field is very large...