ANNOUNCEMENT. The University Chronicle is intended to furnish a record of such events in the life of the University as may be of general interest. It will contain reports of occasional addresses, correspondence concerning additions to the funds or equipment of the institution, notices and reviews of the meetings of the various scientific and literary associations, and such other information as ought to have a place in a current account of the progress of the University. It will be issued six times a year, and the contents of each number will ordinarily be drawn from the events of the two months preceding the date of publication; but in the first number it has been thought advisable to present a selection from the more important addresses and correspondence pertaining to a longer period. In addressing an asssembly of friends of the University on the occasion of the anniversary of its foundation, no subject seems so appropriate as a brief sketch of the true idea of a great university; for this is what we all desire our university to become. We cannot hope to realize this ideal at once; but let us conceive it clearly, and then we shall work toward it steadily. I assume, then, that the aim and end of all education is preparation for worthy life, and university education for the noblest life. It must first lift the recipient to a high and intellectual plane, and then prepare him for efficient activity on that plane. It is well to keep these two functions distinct in the mind, although the latter is the most characteristic of the University. In a word, it is the function of the University to prepare for leadership in the world of thought and in the world of action. Now, looking on life in the broadest way, I see three sides of our intellectual nature which must be equally cultivated, and three main subordinate and coördinate courses in a general scheme of higher education; each supplementing the other two, and all together constituting a complete and symmetric culture; each also preparing in a special way for some groups of higher pursuits in active life. These Jr. 12. 25 - California, University Press. Tuft |