Untitled Page 8

German University, but her resources are but a fourth of what you [propose?] to place at the disposal of the Univ. of California.
Hitherto our Am. higher schools have had to tread in restricted and mechanical parts. Their professors have been tied down to the detail and drudgery of classroom work to such an extent that neither [time?], strength, nor inclination were left for original research. In Germany the case is different. Each professor is put upon a specialty which he is expected to extend. He comes before his classes with the most complete mastery of his subject, and alive with an investigation which reaches into new fields. It is this plan which produced in rapid succession the great systems of philosophy which arose during the first half of the present [century?], and which is now making Germany the center of the [educatorial?] world in Science, in Medicine, in Philology, philosophy and Theology.
Now for the first time in Am. history has there been the possibility of creating a Univ. able to compete with [there?] old and richly supported Universities of Germany. For [instance?], in the small Univ. of [Jena?] where I spent the year of '83-4, there are over [100?] professors to 600 students. The same proportion holds for the great universities of Berlin and Leipzig. Quite otherwise, however, is the case in the English and Scotch Universities, which I visited this Summer. In Edinburg and Glasgow, for instance, they have splendid buildings, great hordes of alleged students but only small faculties. For the sake of the [fees?] they throw the doors wide open and receive every country