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Universities (AMERICAN There is no accepted)

AMERICAN. There is no accepted definition of the term "university" in America. Our earliest colonial institutions were founded as schools or colleges. The Constitution of Massachusetts of 1780 uses this language: "Harvard College, in which University many persons" have been educated. This identification of the terms college and university is not yet obsolete. The name of Yale College was changed to Yale University in 1886. The College of New Jersey became Princeton University in 1896. The state institutions in earliest days beginning with North Carolina, Georgia, and South Carolina generally used the title university without any real discrimination in work.

Within the past fifty years the American University has assumed a more definite form and type. This type differs essentially from that of the historic English Universities and equally so from those of Germany. The American University has in general been developed out of the American College, and it still includes the college as a part of its organization. So Harvard College is a branch or department of Harvard University.

Adelbert College is a part of Western Reserve University. A university is therefore a college plus something more.

This something more includes: (1) provision for graduate work leading to the Ph. D. degree; (2) extended facilities for research; (3) additional schools co-ordinate with the college or built upon the same for professional work of high character. Medicine, Law, and Engineering in its most varied forms are the professions most frequently provided for, though others are sometimes added, It