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本课是《何为大学》的最后一讲。作者在首段就给大学下过定义，随后，用大量笔墨来解释、丰富这一定义，在最后一段，作者扣回定义，并将“何为大学”的讨论推向了最精彩的部分。
英文原文
But I have said more than enough in illustration; I end as I began—a university is a place of concourse, whither students come from every quarter for every kind of knowledge.
You cannot have the best of every kind everywhere; you must go to some great city or emporium for it.
There you have all the choicest productions of nature and art all together, which you find each in its own separate place elsewhere.
All the riches of the land, and of the earth, are carried up thither; there are the best markets, and there the best workmen.
It is the center of trade, the supreme court of fashion, the umpire of rival talents, and the standard of things rare and precious.
It is the place for seeing galleries of first-rate pictures and for hearing wonderful voices and performers of transcendent skill.
It is the place for great preachers, great orators, great nobles, great statesmen.
In the nature of things, greatness and unity go together; excellence implies a center.
And such, for the third or fourth time, is a university; I hope I do not weary out the reader by repeating it.
It is the place to which a thousand schools make contributions; in which the intellect may safely range and speculate, sure to find its equal in some antagonist activity, and its judge in the tribunal of truth.
It is a place where inquiry is pushed forward, and discoveries verified and perfected, and rashness rendered innocuous, and error exposed, by the collision of mind with mind, and knowledge with knowledge.
It is a place where the professor becomes eloquent, and is a missionary and a preacher, displaying his science in its most complete and most winning form, pouring it forth with the zeal of enthusiasm, and lighting up his own love of it in the breasts of his hearers.
It is the place where the catechist makes good his ground as he goes, treading in the truth day by day into the ready memory, and wedging and tightening it into the expanding reason.
It is a place which wins the admiration of the young by its celebrity, kindles the affections of the middle-aged by its beauty, and rivets the fidelity of the old by its associations.
It is a seat of wisdom, a light of the world, a minister of the faith, an Alma Mater of the rising generation.
It is this and a great deal more, and demands a somewhat better head and hand than mine to describe it well.
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