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...latest faculty report from Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn's experimental college at Wisconsin University contains a proposal that college, especially state institutions, should mould their curricula so as to train students to deal with the particular problems of the state in which they are located. Asserting the need for expert public servants, the report claims that the best way to impart the essential training is to use the local problems as a basis for a curriculum and to illustrate solutions with examples taken from history...
...technically for some specific occupation, but to give him a broad background in the humanities and exercise in the art of adaptive thinking. By instituting her new course for prospective coaches, Dartmouth has aligned herself in the ranks of that group of colleges which include in their curricula courses in library science, home economics, and hog-calling...
...commuters, it is believed that a fair cross-section of student opinion has already ben obtained. Although it is too early to make any definite conclusions, it seems that non-residence in Cambridge and exclusion from the Houses are effective bars to participation in sports and other extra-curricula activities...
...increased phenomenally, but the intellectual side has not gone hand in hand. The huge influx of men seeking "gilt-edge certificates" insuring well paid positions has necessitated expensive educational leviathans. The overcrowding of schools has made impossible the establishment of any cultural environment, and led institutions to make their curricula ever more technically vocational...
...while one cannot deny the influence of the small college in American life, one cannot also remain blind to their failing. There are many such institutions throughout the country which do not, and cannot, give the education which a college owes its students. Their curricula are too small; their equipments are not adequate; their professors are with a few exceptions mediocre. Those faults do not lie in poor management, but are due to the very nature of the colleges themselves...