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Senses No. 6 through No. 9 are found easily by breaking down the sense of touch into five separate senses: "crude" touch, pressure, heat, cold and pain. (Some authorities list four: "true" touch, temperature, superficial pain and deep pain.) Says Author David W. Foerster, a third-year medical student (University of Oklahoma) who has made a special study of the subject: "Ordinarily, when we feel an object, we bring into play three or four of these senses simultaneously . . . When we touch a hot stove, we experience heat, pain, crude touch and perhaps pressure...
...breakdown of touch is less a matter of semantics than of anatomy: each of these senses, says Foerster, "has its own receptor cells to receive impressions of the outside world, and its own nerve pathways...
...change in Iowa's fortunes took place eleven years ago when famed Psychologist Carl Emil Seashore, grand old man of the University, decided that Iowa should go in for creative arts. In came Humanist Norman Foerster to head the School of Letters, Artist Grant Wood to teach in the School of Fine Arts. They believed that the way to learn about art was to produce it. Soon Iowa's husky pupils were enthusiastically painting, sculpting, writing, acting, composing. Scornful of second-hand scholarship, Iowa's teachers let students win their degrees by substituting for a traditional thesis...
...they go for a degree, which he calls "a passport to economic success," and to participate in activities. In general agreement are Presidents Wriston of Lawrence, Angell of Yale, and Butler of Columbia--who feel that the majority enter college for social and vocational purposes. Like President Hutchins, Mr. Foerster complains that the university has become a buge department store in which every kind of ware is offered to every type of buyer. As may be expected, the solution to these evils is found in the resurrection of the lost ideal of a "liberal education," defined in various ways...
...time the presence of too many students in the social sciences may subvert Harvard's current idea of education to that of a vocational school. The theory of education here transcends the social sciences; in doing so, it does bring students here to be educated, and, contrary to Mr. Foerster, to a certain indefinable extent every student who graduates is educated...