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The universities have trained the intellectual pioneers of our civilization—the priests, the lawyers, the statesmen, the doctors, the men of science, and the men of letters. The conduct of business now requires intellectual imagination of the same type as that which in former times has mainly passed into those other occupations.
There is one great difficulty which hinders all the higher types of human effort. In modern times this difficulty has even increased in its possibilities for evil. In any large organization the younger men, who are novices. must be set to jobs which consist in carrying out fixed duties in obedience to orders. No president of a large corporation meets his youngest employee at his office door with the offer of the most responsible job which the work of that corporation includes. The young men are set to work at a fixed routine, and only occasionally even see the president as he passes in and out of the building. Such work is a great dis
A. Limitations of the University.
B. The Proper Function of the University.
C. Importance of Intellectual Imagination.
D. Foolery of Apprenticeship Period.

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The universities have trained the intellectual pioneers of our civilization—the priests, the lawyers, the statesmen, the doctors, the men of science, and the men of letters. The conduct of business now requires intellectual imagination of the same type as that which in former times has mainly passed into those other occupations.
There is one great difficulty which hinders all the higher types of human effort. In modern times this difficulty has even increased in its possibilities for evil. In any large organization the younger men, who are novices. must be set to jobs which consist in carrying out fixed duties in obedience to orders. No president of a large corporation meets his youngest employee at his office door with the offer of the most responsible job which the work of that corporation includes. The young men are set to work at a fixed routine, and only occasionally even see the president as he passes in and out of the building. Such work is a great dis
A. may have bad effects upon the young men
B. can very well train the young men
C. is a root cause of many evils
D. is unnecessary for the employees and the business

[单项选择]American universities prefer to have letter of recommendation sent directly from the people who write them．
A. 美国的大学更喜欢有意见的人直接给他们寄建议信。
B. 美国的大学更喜欢推荐人直接给他们寄推荐信。
C. 美国的大学更喜欢推荐人亲自对他们做出推荐。
D. 美国的大学更喜欢有意见的人亲自对他们提出。

[单项选择]The students in Canadian universities don’t have classes ______.
A. from April to September
B. from Christmas to New Year
C. from July to September
D. from April to July

[单项选择]Traditionally, universities have carried out two main activities: research and teaching, any experts would argue that both these activities play a critical role in serving the community. The fundamental question, however, is how does the community want or need to be served
In recent years universities have been coming under increasing pressure from both the governments and the public to ensure that they do not remain "ivory towers" (象牙塔) of study separated from the realities of everyday life. University teachers have been encouraged, and in some cases compelled, to provide more courses which produce graduates with the technical skills required for the commercial use. If Aristotle wanted to work in university in the UK today, he would have a good chance of teaching computer science but would not be so readily employable as a philosopher.
A post-industrial society requires large numbers of computer programmers, engineers, managers and technicians to maintain and develop its eco
A. universities in the UK have produced too many good-for-nothing graduates
B. universities should stop teaching philosophy
C. high technology is now valued more than other courses in universities
D. universities should put more stress on computer science