Last week President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University told Barnard College alumnae that in all the land there are only "about eight universities . . . and about eight more which have a university aspect and a university standard for a part of their activities." A true university, said he, is not a group of professional schools, but a "power house of the mind." Asked to name his Eight, he chuckled: "Oh, no! no! No, thank you! There is no way you can find out!"
Other educators clucked. Said Editor James McKeen Cattell...
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