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...feature of the Freshman athletic curricula this year is hiking. This form of exercise has attracted '16 men, who have pledged themselves to take five mile walks twice every week, and then a ten mile walk at the end of the week...
...education in America. They should also be helpful to the whole movement in adult education. The incidental inter-university contest will open a new field for friendly intellectual competition in subjects of universal human interest and, if successful, should give a permanent place to current events as an extra curricula interest if not as a curriculum course in all higher institutions of learning...
President Frank's analysis comes naturally from the new administrator of one of those immense educational factories which have grown up on the federal grants in public land states. It is here that curricula have been littered with every branch of information known to man. The liberal college has held to the doctrine that not matter but method counts, that the study of renaissance architecture or romantic literature, the classics or a science, may sharpen wits and awaken wisdom more effectively than technical training in the tools of the trade itself. Even at Harvard the elective system broke down, without...
...here that President Annuli's observation enters in. The outburst of intellectual interest which has been a concomitant of the recovery from war hysteria is in part the cure of the evil which Mr. Frank distinguishes and in part the evidence of a cure already achieved in institutions whose curricula remain uncluttered with foreign substance. For it is in liberal colleges that the change in undergraduate fashions in study originated and in which it has developed farthest. It was not strange Saturday that the President of the University of Wisconsin should attack in Boston the abuses of the elective system...
...Since the Germans primarily desire culture, then it is no more than feasible that they should adopt those measures which will ultimately lead to it. The plan of four-year curricula in the American Colleges and high schools is a distinct advantage over the present nine-year course of instruction in the German Gymnasiums. The American Instructor is able to associate with his students, and thereby becomes a psychological specialist in reference to them. The German student is ten years old when he enters the Gymnasium, and is at least 19 before he completes the course. These nine years...