F. Gurney Stubbs
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Excerpt from The Intercollegiate Medical Journal, Vol. 1: Devoted to the Study of the Medical Sciences; July, 1897 In the first place, we must concede that there is no disposi tion on the part of the American people to transfer the national government or any part of the powers now vested in the state governments. In the second place, there appears to be no ade quate reason for supposing that if the federal government were possessed of the power advocated by Mr. Freeman, the educa tional standards of the country would be any higher than they are under existing conditions. It cannot even be said with any degree of certainty that there would be a uniform law, under which institutions of learning would be incorporated, unless the constitution should be so amended as expressly to require it. Whatever reform is to be accomplished will have to be wrought out by the individual action of the states. The difficulty under which we labor in this country is not due to the fact that the states, rather than the United States, are in control of the subject of education. In Germany, control over the universities is not in the empire, but, as in this country, is in the several states. The only difference is that in Germany the states exercise their rights of supervision, while in the United States, as a rule, they do not. 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.