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Progressive education as practised at the University of Chicago and at Bennington challenges Harvard in more ways than one. It is not merely that its academic freedom is fully as complete. Far more fundamental is the fact that Bennington (and also Columbia's Bard College) are approaching education from a creative point of view, while Harvard's attitude is in the main scholarly. Bennington, as far as is possible, has made creative and individual work an integral part of every subject. Harvard has not, and must soon face the issue of whether it is providing a complete education. Recent criticisms...
...third and last presentation this year, the Lowell House Musical Society will sponsor a concert by Julian DeGray, pianist on Sunday at 8 o'clock. Mr. DeGray, now on the faculty of Bennington College, was awarded the Cutting Travelling Fellowship at Columbia University in 1926; and in 1928, while studying in London, he received the Chappell Gold Medal. He has given concerts and lecture-recitals in music centers in this country and abroad, where he has been hailed with enthusiastic interest by critics and laymen alike...
Grants totaling $600,000 started off the new program. The Progressive Education Association got $90,000 for a try at reorganizing the secondary school curriculum. Another $70,000 helped train the individualistic young women of Bennington College (TIME, Jan. 7). The biggest grant, $300,000, will be dribbled out over a period of five years to the American Council on Education...
...Bennington instructor is allowed to consider his job a matter of a few class room hours per day. He must eat, work, spend much of his time with students. Faculty salaries are low but the staff is young and the college expects that some time the balance between salaries and buildings will be tipped heavily toward salaries. Like the students, the instructors are marked by a vast intellectual skepticism. So is President Leigh, a, bespectacled scholar whom students like despite his impersonality. When the outside lecturers, who come to Bennington nearly every evening, occasionally turn out to be stupid...
...Bennington girls have lost no time in extending their freedom to dress. At the approach of winter they pull on skiing outfits and keep them on, except for the winter recess, until they exchange them for shorts in the spring. Most of the girls come from New England or New York. Many are debutantes. To go out with Williams men and stay out as late as they like, they need only notify the college office in advance. During the winter they ski. skate, gather in a general store for tea and talk. This year some of them are running...