Contains "Proslogion, Guanilo's Criticism, and Reply," by St. Anselm of Canterbury; "On the Organization of Institutions of Higher Learning in Berlin," by Wilhelm von Humboldt, translated by Clifton Fadiman; "The Idea of a University," by Cardinal John Henry Newman; "Inaugural Address at St. Andrews," by John Stuart Mill; "Wallenstein - Part One: The Piccolomini," (play) by Friedrich Schiller, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a symposium on "The University Today," and "Great Books of the Twentieth Century in Literature," by Mark Van Doren.