Excerpt from The American University: An Australian View
The document that follows is a book only in appearance. It began as an individual private report, supplementary to a series whose authors were a Committee; and it was mainly written, as such, during a sea-voyage, without aid from a library and without thought of publication. The writer"s intention was to furnish the Australian Universities with general answers to certain questions concerning American Universities; and to attach, in an appendix, much detailed information about particular courses of study, methods of administration and discipline, and the like.
A change of plan has been necessitated, however, by two considerations: first, the University of Sydney wishes to publish the discursive general part; and second, the writer has been too fully occupied with teaching duty, in an overcrowded department, to recast what has already been written. This seeming book is, therefore, mainly a section of a report which was to present a preliminary survey of a very wide field. Large tracts of that field are not viewed at all; the rest is seen only in those aspects which are of immediate and general interest to Australians.
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