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Universities. Thus he said at one paint:
It is gratifying to be able to record the fact that them
are Amrican colleges which have not succtrmbed to nonsense.
Hanard -- I am speaking nou of the college work alone in
211 the institutions which I am about to nzme -- Yale,
Princeton, Swarthere, Vsnderbilt, hiherst, William, Bar-
nard, Bsyn Hawr, Smith and Wellesley, to select a small
number ;t random -- give no credit towzrds admission or
graduation for any of the absurd courses which I bve men-
tioned above; they'all offer a varied and solid cultural
curriculm to un6ergraduate students who may care to 6e
educated. 55
And on Princeton as a university, he added a footnote later:
Of the great American unfversities that I have mentioned,
one, Princeton, still lzsgely a college though in some de-
partments important graduate groups are developing, dces
no 'service' work whtsoever... 56
But the historian was forced to admit that during the critical
years between 1888 when President James McCosh retired, and 1902 when
Wilson becam President, those years when the stimulus of the Hopkihs
was most powerful, President Francis Patton failed to stiffen easy
courses, to maintzin proper entrance requirements, to drop incorrigibly
idle students, or to inaugurate a logical scheme of coordinated electives.
Re concluded regretfully that if these things had been done, "Princeton
could not, even in jest, have been dubbed a delightful country club,"
Nevertheless, h~ was careful to say, much excellent teaching and earnest
work went on in this period. 57
At: the end of the first qurter of the tuentfeth century, Prfnce-
ton took a lead in umthmnatles and the.natura1 sciences, With the aid of I
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$1 million from the General Educstion Board, for which Professor Veblen ,
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was to thank Dr. Flexner and his colleagues, and the $2 million required
to match it, largely raised by Dean Henry Fine, Princeton established its