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Briefly, then, the prime fuction of the University is to teach its students. No other excuse for existence can possibly be arrived at. No matter how far-flung may be the empire of learning which the University controls, no matter how many great and famous scholars have been developed or have been induced to study in Harvard, no matter the size of the library or the splendor of the laboratory facilities, the University has got to pass on to the students a share of its reservoir of learning, if it claims to train young men to assume their places...
There are, to be sure, objectionable features in this fuction of publication which may make it undesirable. Not-withstanding this, the faculty has under consideration, at present, a plan for the reconstruction of the departments of instruction in which we may find the needed restraints to the objectionable features of university publications...
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