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INFORMATION about higher education and research in the United States is available in great, to the uninitiated, indeed, in embarrassing abundance. Besides the ‘catalogs’ and reports of a thousand colleges, universities, and professional schools, there are the excellent statistical summaries and surveys of the Bureau of Education, a plentiful stream of articles in American periodicals, reports of investigations carried out under the direction of great educational associations and foundations such as the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and records of impressions of visitors from Europe. The conceptions current in Great Britain owe their origin largely to the last-mentioned source and, perhaps not less, to unpublished impressions of other visitors to America, to contact with American visitors to Europe, including Rhodes scholars, and to references in popular fiction. Anyone desiring to apply to conceptions thus formed the test of a purely objective, well-authenticated, comprehensive, and up-to-date survey could not do better than study the handbook1 recently issued by the American Council on Education.
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Universities in the United States of America. Nature 122, 382–383 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122382a0
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