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State schools and research universities were the healthier American system: trades and science moved poor and smart people into useful work, while the Ivy League risked becoming irrelevant.
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State schools and research universities were the healthier American system: trades and science moved poor and smart people into useful work, while the Ivy League risked becoming irrelevant.
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American universities rose from nonexistence in the global research hierarchy to dominance through research investment and postwar importation of German scientific talent.
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"...and technology in the world and so they built them called research universities okay and a couple of the first research universities were to..."
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"...want to be a professor or scientist you went to these research universities if you're a rich you went to these social clubs called..."
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"hopkins to overtake the ivy league okay and that's why harvard decided to in to institute scholarship programs so he wanted more smart people..."
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"...And America was non -existent. But because of its investments in research universities, it started to move up and up. And then it won..."
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"So now it can import all these German scientists. And that's why it dominates today. So the best universities in the world are now..."
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