ABSTRACT
In the modern university, the more vigorously science is prosecuted, the more acute the need that society be held accountable for the purposes to which larger knowledge and experience are turned. Philosophers and critics, therefore, gain in importance as science makes life more complex — more rational in some ways, more irrational in others. A modern university would then address itself whole-heartedly and unreservedly to the advancement of knowledge, the study of problems, from whatever source they come, and the training of men — all at the highest level of possible effort. A university, seeking to be modern, seeking to evolve theory, seeking to solve problems, may thus readily find itself complicating its task and dissipating energy and funds by doing a host of inconsequential things. The modern research institute was first set up in Paris for Pasteur, because within the French university of Pasteur’s time one could not procure the conditions requisite to scientific research.
