Excerpt from The American College What It Is and What It May Become
The ideal college is neither the ideal school nor the ideal university. The school has for its aim the conveying of certain elemental facts to the mind of the pupil. The university has for its aim either the discovery of truth or the giving of professional training. The school is concerned with the student; the university with truth and the relations of truth, or with the training for a vocation.
The ideal college stands midway between the school and the university. It is concerned, like the school, with the student. It seeks to enlarge and to enrich his character, but its method and the power which it uses in this enlargement and enrichment lie less in the conveying of elemental facts, than in the interpretation and application of truth. If the college uses truth and its relations as a force, the university, on the other side, uses truth and its relations as ends in themselves.
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