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Wesleyan's project commends itself for several reasons. Those who take the courses offered will acquaint themselves with the latest additions in factual knowledge regarding the subjects in which they are interested. More important, they will benefit in some degree from the intellectual stimulation which comes with contact with instructors, and from once more-approaching important problems from the academic standpoint. Wesleyan's step is one more witness to the growing realization that education is not a consumption of canned goods, the "transfer of material from the lecturer's notebook to the students", without its passing through the mind...
...course are fairly well cared for under the new program, as the classes are to be limited in size, and more stress is to be put on the individual conference with the instructor, thus providing a greater flexibility than was possible in the past. These changes will serve to acquaint the Freshman with the workings of the tutorial system and should provide the physical basis for a really interesting course of study. For Freshman English could be one of the important courses in the college, curriculum, as an introduction to the study of literature and a stimulation to the enjoyment...
...cows named Mrs. Pauline Guernsey and Mrs. Winnie Jersey and their calves Dolly and Dimples were well acquainted with Los Angeles by last week. Bumped, joggled but still placid, they had been carted around by two big trucks among 85 of Los Angeles' 294 public elementary schools. They had been gazed at, petted by some 2,000 school children daily. Their guardian, one Jay Dutter, member of the California Dairy Council, had lectured about them, fed them, demonstrated the uses of such typical bovine features as the udder.* Sponsor of this tour was Mrs. Etta Louise Ross, assistant director...
...German sections would provide at least one regular undergraduate course conducted completely in German, of which there is none now. The English sections would stimulate the student who reads the language but does not understand spoken German rather than bore him the way the present translation courses do. They acquaint him with all the masterpieces of German literature and their influence rather than hold him responsible for meticulous translation of the works of a few authors. There are certainly men in the department at present able to conduct the course. Its addition to the curriculum would seem to benefit that...
...same time J. N. Trainer, Jr. '31, of the Freshman Halls, in order to acquaint the Freshman Class with the House Plan...