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PROF. CAULLERY, professor of organic evolution in the University of Paris, was exchange-professor at Harvard University in 1916, and during his five months' stay in the United States he made a study of the American university system, especially from the scientific point of view. In his description of the rise, development, and administration of the various universities in the States, and his illuminating account of the extensive facilities offered for Sjcientific research on the other side of the Atlantic, Prof. Caullery seeks, at every opportunity, to point out the lessons which France might usefully learn from American experience. He emphasises the success with which the universities in the United States have produced not only scholars, jurists, and physicians, but also engineers, agriculturists, and financiers-leaders, in fact, in every department of human activity. He urges the desirability of encouraging in France the intimate connection between university activity and contemporary life which he found existing in America.
Les Universités et la Vie scientifique aux Etats-Unis.
By Prof. Maurice Caullery. Pp. xii + 302. (Paris: Librairie Armand Colin, 1917.) Price 3.50 francs.
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Les Universités et la Vie scientifique aux Etats-Unis. Nature 100, 483 (1918). https://doi.org/10.1038/100483b0
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