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presentation, this simple description was admirably calculated for a special end. It was a view at once novel and plausible and rendered efficient service in persuading many that a university education was both logical and feasible. Thus there was ample justification for the emphasis that Chancellor Canfield placed on the quantitative side of university development. Higher education, it is true, cannot thrive by numbers only; in the last analysis the University must be judged by intellectual and moral standards rather than by statistics and sums total. Nevertheless increasing numbers are a very real and visible evidence of healthy interest and vigorous growth, especially in the earlier stages, and to this mediate goal of larger numbers Chancellor Canfield chiefly directed his efforts, doubtless realizing meanwhile that this, when reached, would be but the starting point for higher levels. How signally he succeeded in his purpose is known to most citizens of Nebraska, who, perchance, have but and vague knowledge of the work of his predecessors. The important services of these are not to he forgotten nor ignored, but the achievements of Chancellor Canfield's comparatively brief administration stand out in clear and shining relief, and it is only sober truth to say that he, more than any other man, ushered in the golden era of the University's prosperity and greatness.
Dr. Canfield on leaving Nebraska assumed the presidency of State University of Ohio, and he subsequently became Librarian of Columbia University. He remained to the end of his life the practical man of affairs, the keen observer of current life and tendencies, the wise and helpful counsellor to aspiring youth. His little book of advice to university students, published some years before his decease, embodies his view of education and contains much that could profit the reader, be he young or old.
W. F. DANN
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