Excerpt from Proceedings of the Convocation, 1873 If under the administration of President Barnard, Columbia Col lege, whose immense revenue gives the facility, should be made a university, separated from the college proper, whose curriculum might stop, as does the German gymnasium, with the disciplinary as distinct from improving studies, then there might arise perfect har mony of views as to what studies should be elective, and at what period of education an election of studies might begin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.