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THE real issue is whether a useful and worthy type of university can be erected on the comratively narrow basis of a limited group of studies, n both primary and secondary education there has been a growing tendency to evolve several distinct types of school. Is it only university cloth that must always be cut to the same pattern? If we consider the enormous complexity of modern civilisation and the degree and extent to which it is based upon science, we must think that, in the region of university education, the time has come for a further differentiation of functions, and that the first step in this development should be the creation of a new type of university based upon pure and applied science, not to supersede, but to supplement, the existing type. The normal type of university, embracing a great number of faculties, would still remain, and ought to be, the predominant and prevalent type.
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The Imperial College as a University of Science and Technology1. Nature 106, 262–263 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106262a0
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