"A discussion of the ideal college training from these three different aspects, the highest development of the individual student, the proper relation of the college to the professional school, the relation of the students to each other, would appear to lead in each case to the same conclusion; that the best type of liberal education in our complex modern world aims at producing men who know a little of everything and something well."
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, October 6, 1909, Inaugural Address of the President of Harvard University, published in Science October 15, 1909, p. 502, reported in The New York Observer, p. 505
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