The Prospects of the Small CollegeUniversity of Chicago Press, 1900 - 46 pages |
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Page 25 - The phenomenal increase in numbers of the larger institutions of learning within the past ten years is an indication of what is to be expected in the future. The same spirit which to-day draws men to the city, where special advantages are thought to exist, and where special privileges may be secured, will draw men to the larger institutions, with their larger libraries, their better equipped laboratories, and their more direct contact with life and modern civilization. With this tendency the small...
Page 24 - ... the facts already in evidence show that the whole tendency of the development of professional work is antagonistic to the work of the small college. Men have come to see that in all of the courses directly preparatory to a professional training, and indeed in many of the technical courses included in that training, there is a culture as large and strong and uplifting as in any subject to which the student might devote himself ; and, besides, it is evident that in work bearing directly upon one's...
Page 46 - It must, however, pass thru a serious struggle with many antagonistic elements, and must adjust itself to other similar and, sometimes, stronger agencies. 3. In the process of this struggle and adjustment some colleges will grow stronger ; some will become academies ; some, junior colleges ; the high schools will be elevated to a still more important position than that which they now occupy; while, all together, high schools, colleges, and universities, will develop greater similarity of standard...
Page 6 - Again, the student of the small college, it is urged, has great advantages, especially in the earlier college years, because in most cases he does his work under men who have the rank of professor, while in the larger institutions he is turned over to young men who are only tutors or instructors. And yet it should be remembered that these same tutors and instructors, if they were in the smaller institutions, would enjoy the rank of professor. I have in mind a university in which every man who is...
Page 39 - ... this has practically been accomplished in certain schools in Michigan and in some of our cities. It can be done at a minimum of cost. To-day only 10 per cent of those who finish the high school continue the work in college. If the high schools were to provide work for two additional years, at least 40 per cent of those finishing the first four years would continue to the end of the sophomore year. With this modification of the high school on the one hand, and with the suggested modification of...
Page 26 - ... ability are employed, with the feeling that no other institution will cause trouble by calling away the members of the staff. On the other hand, the larger institution is able, not only to select the strongest men and to pay them a salary which will make them satisfied to remain indefinitely, but also to employ younger men, even at a lower salary than is paid by the small colleges, because the younger men see that there is always opportunity ahead. The women's college, even when a large one,...
Page 34 - The work of the freshman and sophomore years is only a continuation of the academy or high school work. It is a continuation, not only of the subject matter studied, but of the methods employed. It is not until the end of the sophomore year that university methods of instruction may be employed to advantage.
Page 37 - Many students who might not have the courage to enter upon a course of four years' study would be willing to do the two years of work before entering business or the professional school.
Page 8 - No greater acts of heroism or self-sacrifice have been performed on battlefield, or in the face of danger, than those which are written down in the book of the recording angel to the credit of the teachers whose very blood has gone into the foundations of some of our weak and struggling colleges. Blood thus freely and nobly given can never have been given in vain. It will cry out to heaven in behalf of the cause for which it was spent, and this cry will be heard and answered, and new friends will...
Page 31 - We come now to the consideration of the changes affecting the small colleges which may be expected and are to be desired. First among these will be the strengthening of some. The laws of institutional life are very similar to those of individual life, and in the development of institutions we may confidently believe in the survival of the fittest. The severe tests, to which the life of many institutions is subjected, serve to purify and to harden these lives. The institution which has survived the...