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History of higher education in America (1906)
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Every enlargement of the field of knowledge has resulted in the enrichment of the academic curriculum. Great is the difference, moreover, between knowledge as knowledge and knowledge as a tool of intellectual training. Time is required for the transmutation of pure science into a practical agency or condition of discipline.
Charles Franklin Thwing
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Born:
November 9, 1853
Died:
August 29, 1937
(aged 83)
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