ABSTRACT
University, in the strict sense, is to mean that institution which teaches the ordinary student to be a cultured person and a good member of a profession. The university will not tolerate in its program any false pretence: it will profess to require of the student only what actually can be required of him. It will consequently avoid causing the ordinary student to waste part of his time in pretending that he is going to be a scientist. Scientific investigation paper is to be eliminated from the core or minimum of the university. The cultural disciplines and the professional studies will be offered in a rationalized form based on the best pedagogy —systematic, synthetic, and complete—and not in the form which science would prefer, if it were left to itself: special problems, "samples" of science, and experimentation. The selection of professors will depend not on their rank as investigators but on their talent for synthesis and their gift for teaching.
