Universities and Their Sons, Vol. 3

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Excerpt from Universities and Their Sons, Vol. 3: History, Influence and Characteristics of American Universities, With Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Alumni and Recipients of Honorary DegreesThe time is past when a University education necessarily implied a strict following of what was known as the learned professions. Indeed, this term itself has had large extension within recent years. Law, medicine and theology, which made the noble scope of the mediaeval Universities, no longer bound the activities of the great schools which have inherited their name and still bear their prestige transported in place and broadened in scope. Journalism, literary authorship, teaching, in its various lines and grades, engineering, in the construction and handling of the fast developing applications of modern physical science, even more, perhaps, research, exploration, invention, in all fields of observation, and among the elements, forces or laws of action, whether in the physical or psychical spheres, all these demand a preparation for which the means and encouragements of the highest schools are none too ample. The successful prosecution of any of these aims may well deserve the rank of a learned profession.In fact, we might warrantably say that in these modern days science, philosophy and art have all enlarged their content and their scope. Geology, geography, meteorology, astronomy, have each revealed new aspects of the worlds, biology, new reaches of life, chemistry and molecular physics have opened to us glimpses of wondrous modes of action which we scarcely dignify by calling them laws, inasmuch as they seem like generative powers, the problems of psychology are investigated on new lines, and even the traditions of history in its monu ments. Relics and languages are tried by new tests and lead to new grounds of conclusion.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.