Mill's Inaugural Address and the Contemporary University (Or Not)

Below are some provisional thoughts I'm still working through about attempts to transplant John Stuart Mill to the contemporary university system.  As a Victorianist (albeit not a philosopher), I'm always a bit cautious about using nineteenth-century thinkers to solve or provide analogies for twenty-first century problems, as opposed to engaging with them as sounding boards.  In this case, I'm mostly interested in everyone's obsessive turn to On Liberty, which is not about university instruction, and their avoidance of the Inaugural Address, Delivered to the University of St. Andrews, which is.  The problems here are somewhat different than (but overlap with) those posed by Newman's Idea of a University, which I discussed several years ago.  Warning: quite long.