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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Approximately three years ago a plan was adopted by Johns Hopkins University by which the students were permitted to enter the graduate schools at the end of their sophomore year rather than requiring the regular four year college course. The object of this innovation was to give the advanced student more time to devote to his particular field, thus acquiring greater efficiency. Now, at the end of three years, a report on the system declares that all of the men working under it are doing well. From the point of view of modern education, however, this project is at fault...
...student does enter a graduate school at the end of the sophomore year, it is very doubtful whether he has acquired a sufficiently broad education to enable him to be an unblased judge of general affairs. The preparatory education that the average person has before coming to college usually consists of just sufficient elementary knowledge to satisfy entrance requirements. It is therefore up to the college to provide all of the cultural background that is necessary for a professional man. When the regular four year course is reduced to two, it is impossible to fill this requirement...
...addition to this, if it is the intention of the student to enter professional school at the end of the second year, it is necessary to study there much of the elementary material formerly done as undergraduate work. Using the medical school as an example, under the Johns Eopkins plan all knowledge of such fundamentals as biology, or anthropology must be gained in the graduate school, thus lowering the standards, and necessitating an extention of the course to cover the field fully...
...human life and the technique for dealing with special phases of it, but that the time has now come for drawing together this knowledge and applying it to the best advantage of mankind as a whole. Man himself must now be the center of study, and his welfare an end and aim of the biological and social sciences and of the related professions...
...profits. Then, unfortunately, the Stock Exchange Governors decided that a corner had been established in Piggly Wiggly and took the stock off the board. With trading suspended, there was no market, no quotation on Mr. Saunders' stock. Mr. Saunders discovered that Wall Street has a cemetery at one end and a river at the other. After an unsuccessful attempt to unload his Piggly Wiggly stock, an attempt featured by a full page newspaper advertisement entitled "Fighting for My Life," Mr. Saunders turned over a fortune estimated at nine million dollars to the bankers who had financed his disastrous corner...