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Identifier: southamericannei01stun (find matches)
Title: South American neighbors..
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Stuntz, Homer C. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: N.Y.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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tional school sys-tems are the same. French and North Americaninfluence is seen throughout, French predominating.There are universities, secondary schools, elementarywork, in both primary and kindergarten forms as inNorth America; and technical and special schools,—normal, commercial, agricultural and industrial—areall to be found in varying degrees of efficiency. The word university conveys a different meaning tothe Latin educator than to ourselves. Differences be-tween our university ideals and theirs are radical.They differ historically. Eight universities in South America were foundedby the Roman Church: Lima, 1551; Bogota, 1572;Cordoba, 1613; Sucre, 1623; Cuzco, 1692; Caracas,1721; Santiago de Chile, 1738; Quito, 1787. Whenthe Ten Years War was over, nearly all of these wereimmediately taken over by the new republics, and nowonly one such university functions as all of them didin the beginning—directly under the control of theChurch. All of the others have been secularized/
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J- ne View Co. NATIONAL UNIVERSITY AXD CONGRESS. CARACASPALACE OF FIXE ARTS, RIO DE JANEIRO EDUCATING A CONTINENT 135 These institutions have no physical unity. Thereis no campus, no central group of buildings. Themedical building is often near some large hospital plant,the law school near the court buildings, and engineer-ing and agricultural schools in some other part of thecity, or in a city entirely separate from the one inwhich the university is located. Therefore there can beno group life among the students, none of what isknown among us as school spirit with its culturaland inspirational values enriching all of later life withthe ripening fellowships of student days. Here and there dormitories for the student body—for men only—are being fostered or erected by theuniversity authorities to cure some of the defects whichare making themselves felt in this lack of physicalunity and the absence of a common student life. No faculty exists giving all of its time to theuniversity. I

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