Excerpt from Inaugural Address Delivered at the Opening of the Southern University, Greensboro, Ala The German University realizes the highest ideal of European in stitutions of that class. It is well styled the culminating 'point of public instruction; the common school, and the Gymnasium which corresponds generally to the American College, furnishing prelimina ry stages of education. It embraces four Faculties, Theology, Law, Medicine, and Philosophy or Arts. Each of these employs the ser vices Of Ordinary and Extraordinary Professors, Privatim Docentes licenced Lecturers made up chiefly of graduates of the University. All the instruction is carried on by means of lectures, the students selecting at their option, the course they wish to attend. The En glish Universities are collections of Colleges and Halls, each possess ing its separate buildings and library, its own Head, and Tutors and students. The University possesses the authority of examining stu dents and conferring degrees; in most other respects it stands nomi m's umbra. The instruction of the under graduates passed by de grees into College halls from University lecture rooms, and finally into the hands of private Tutors. Thus, to a great extent, ' the Uni versity course of study is abolished; the shreds of the Professorial system, in the language of Sir Wm. Hamilton, are new little more than curious vestiges of antiquity; and boys who ought to be under the strict discipline which properly belongs to the Gymnasium, are endowed with a University freedom which ends, in regard to many of the students, in frivolity and dissipation. 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.