[NathanR]

According to the article: "The twin purposes of a university are the transmission of learning and the free cultivation of ideas. Both are entrusted to the faculty, and both have been traduced at its hands."

The problem with the "great" universities like Harvard, is that the faculty has no great interest in the transmission of learning to undergraduates. Their only interest is in their graduate students.

The problem with places like Grove College, is that there is no cultivation of ideas, except through teaching. Cultivation of ideas needs research.

You need both pillars for great education. (This is ignoring the fact that due to PC and so forth, there is no "free" cultivation of ideas at Harvard, either.)

[shhrubbery!]

The problem with places like Grove College, is that there is no cultivation of ideas, except through teaching. Cultivation of ideas needs research.

In the hard sciences, maybe.

But can you give me an example of where research has improved the "cultivation of ideas" in, say, English Lit?