University of pennsylvania

ing impression, that almost every large town in the States has launched into existence an institution bearing the important title of University, or, at the least, of College ; that too great facilities and encouragement are accorded by the several States for the establishment of such institutions, and that, in consequence of the numbers of corporations empowered to grant degrees in the several faculties?and particularly in the faculty of medicine?and of the competition and rivalry among them, their educational arrangements are defective, their examinations superficial, and their degrees granted unworthily. The fact of the prevalence of such an impression will of itself explain much of the indifference and ignorance to be found on. this side of the Atlantic respecting American universities. But it must be remembered that the ready, and, as it would