Universities of the World (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... XX THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO The University of Tokyo as a legally existing institution is a growth; as an agency of teaching and of research it is a made process and product. As a growth it represents origins going back into the Tokugawa period, and includes institutions of prolonged service. But its own proper existence began as late as the year of 1886 in the union of two colleges. These two colleges, of much earlier foundation, included in one of them departments of law, of science, of medicine, and of literature. For twenty-five years, therefore, the Imperial University of Tokyo has developed. It has added two great departments of engineering and of agriculture. It has extended its work into fields as diverse as an astronomical observatory, marine biological laboratory, botanical gardens, and earthquake observations. It has published many series of monographs upon erudite subjects. It has established a graduate department known as University Hall. It has increased its number of professors and of students till it has become one of the great universities of the world. Its annual budget represents an amount equal to the annual budgets of the richer American universities, and its buildings are now more than fifty. Whenever the Japanese wish to introduce a new method, or to lay a new foundation, social or civil, they look about the world to find a model. The Japanese are imitators, but they are also more; they are incorporators. In their incorporation they employ the principle of selection. In the application of this principle of selection, they choose the best for incorporation into their belief and practice. In the lower education forty years ago they turned to the United States for light; but in the higher they looked to Berlin and...