. Review of reviews and world's work . a type ; for there are scores of American colleges onthe same general plan and model, devoted throughth^se same processes of direct contact and influenceto the work of giving lofty aims, of shaping androunding out immature and plastic characters, and ofreplenishing in general the countrys stock of high and distinctively American manhood and woman-hood. It is time that allusions to our noble series ofendowed colleges should cease to be apologetic. Andit is high time that the pretensions of the large col-leges to superiority in average undergraduate worksho
. Review of reviews and world's work . a type ; for there are scores of American colleges onthe same general plan and model, devoted throughth^se same processes of direct contact and influenceto the work of giving lofty aims, of shaping androunding out immature and plastic characters, and ofreplenishing in general the countrys stock of high and distinctively American manhood and woman-hood. It is time that allusions to our noble series ofendowed colleges should cease to be apologetic. Andit is high time that the pretensions of the large col-leges to superiority in average undergraduate workshould be sharply repudiated. The i)rincipal task ofour American colleges is to make men. Breadth of. h view, discipline of mind, elevation of moral tone,devotion to the social and public well-being, fitnessfor an honorable and useful career in life—these are-the chief objects of a college training. Vast endow-ments, vast libraries, vast scientific collections, and agreat number of professors may be very essential partsof the university in the large sense ; but they are notby any means so essential to the success of the col-lege. The little university city of Aberdeen, withcomparatively meagre resources, can afford a Scotchyouth just as good a college training as can the greatuniversity city of Oxford, with its wealth of appli-ances. In like manner, there are small colleges, anda very considerable number of them, scatteredthroughout this country, from Maine to California,that can give the young* American student as good,and possibly a better, college training than he couldobtain at one of the group of numerically large insti-tutions which have been permitted to assume a toneof super
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