AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES.
Professor T. H. Laby, who occupies the Chair of Physics in Melbourne University, has just returned after an absence of several months in America and Great Britain. "American Universities have developed on lines of popularising tho work, and that.is one of their most striking features," ho records; but he comes back most definitely of the opinion that the English system, exemplified by Oxford and Cambridge, with its high standard of knowledge, is very much more valuable to the community. "Some American universities have been so popularlised that discipline, standard of knowledge, and general quality of work have definitely deteriorated and been sacrificed to numbers. Colombia University, for instance, has 22,000 students. Not that • these large numbers should be denied the opportunity of education; but to flood the Universities is a questionable way, and the work could be done quite as effectively by technical and continuation classes, secondary and evening schools;summer schools, and the like."
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Wairarapa Age, 23 March 1920, Page 4
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156AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES. Wairarapa Age, 23 March 1920, Page 4
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