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YOUR issue of July 14 (p. 252) set forth in vivid graph the rapid increase in size of the Scottish Universities. But as we must not forget that in progress, advance of type or improvement in quality is more important than increase of quantity, it behoves us to test the qualitative change of the Scottish Universities, and to make sure that they are not of the nature of malignant tumours—rapidly growing masses with tissues of an embryonic type.
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M.A. ET MEDICUS The Progress of the Scottish Universities. Nature 36, 294 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/036294a0
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