ABSTRACT
The typical American university must provide instruction in a wide variety of fields for its undergraduates. Even an institute of technology with emphasis on science and engineering has numerous departments, especially in the humanities, that give service courses. The location of the Institute in this vicinity seems to provide a uniquely attractive cosmopolitan environment in a relatively unspoiled setting. The chapter also proposes a quite different structure for the new institute. Full-scale lecture courses would not be emphasized; teaching would be accomplished mostly in seminars and short series of lectures, but, above all, by means of apprenticeship and research. Only the Ph.D. would be awarded, typically in interdisciplinary subjects forming part of the research program, although not necessarily always. It is important to recruit for the faculty of the institute some of those rare scholars and scientists who are skilled and creative in a variety of subjects.
