Occidental College Bulletin, Vol. 1
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Excerpt from Occidental College Bulletin, Vol. 1: November, 1906 The university is an institution that reaches out in every direction that it is able to reach. It does work in a great many lines. A college is necessarily, in a way, conservative. Its work lies along the line of drill and routine. A university is essentially radical, because its work is carried on through lines of investigation. We may compare, in a way, a university to a large hotel, with a very extensive bill of fare of various things. You read down through this and select what you want. A college ought to have only one set of dishes. It should be like the menu or bill of fare of a good boarding house; and a good boarding house may have just as good a bill of fare as a great hotel. The only question is, - are the things well chosen, are they well cooked; and the questions with the small college will be, - are the subjects which it chooses to teach well selected, and are they well taught. Now, the small college has a good many perils; but the chief ones are that it may pretend to do what it cannot do, or that it may pretend that the things it cannot do are not worth doing. So long as it is genuine and does well the things it tries, the question of large or small size is very incidental. There are other perils of the small college, and one is that of striving to catch the eye in one way or another. Some small colleges, for instance, have had great foot-ball teams which were carefully selected and carefully hired in the surrounding country. Now, it is impossible to teach ethics, impossible to teach morals and religion, in a college that has a dishonest foot-ball team. Sometimes the small colleges will adopt those standards simply for the sake of numbers; but numbers don´t matter - you will have all the people you deserve. If you make this institution what it ought to be, even though small, an institution in which the things that are selected are taught in the very best possible way and by the very best possible men, then all the students you deserve will come to you - even though they have to come on foot across the mountains. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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