Report Of The Committee On Organization

Author : Cornell University Andrew Dickson White
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781332032143
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Report of the Committee on Organization written by Cornell University Andrew Dickson White and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report of the Committee on Organization: Presented to the Trustees of the Cornell University, October 21st, 1866 In establishing a college on the ordinary basis, and with the ordinary scope, there are few difficulties which earnest men and moderate means will not readily surmount. The course required is simple and single; the equipment is compact; instructors are readily found for every department; precedents at every point are abundant. But the work committed to the Trustees of the Cornell University is far larger, far more complicated. In most cases it has few available precedents, in many it has none. The committee upon organization, therefore, cannot hope to present a plan which shall cover every point likely to arise in carrying on the institution now to be commenced; but they hope to present a plan which shall aid in setting the University in operation, and to suggest ideas which will aid it in developing healthfully and largely. Theory of the Plan of Organization. The theory on which the committee have based their plan is that throughout the national and State legislation preparatory to the establishment of the institution, and also throughout the ideas of the founder of the Cornell University, as explained to us by himself, are two leading convictions as to the educational needs of the country, and two corresponding ideas as to meeting these needs. Each of these convictions, and its corresponding idea, is separate and distinct, yet each is necessary to the other. The first of these convictions is that there exists a necessity never yet fully met, for thorough education in various special departments, and, among them, the science and practice of Agriculture, Industrial Mechanics, and kindred departments of thought and action. The corresponding practical idea is that institutions be founded where such instruction can be conducted with every appliance necessary in discovering truth and in diffusing truth; that such instruction be not subordinated to any other; that the agricultural and industrial professions be regarded as the peers of every other; that access to these departments be opened as widely as possible, and progress in them be pushed as far as possible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.