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Having demolished, brick by brick, the architectural monstrosities of Yale and fashioned, with some degree of acumen, a literary bludgeon against the social customs of that University, William Harlan Hale, co-editor of The Harkness Hoot has gone farther afield. He has taken Harvard and Princeton, along with Yale, to be his province, and widened his vehicle by means of the columns of the New Republic...
...DEAN ACADEMY ab h po a e Hale 5 2 0 0 0 McDonough 4 2 1 3 1 Sherry 5 1 4 2 0 Weafer 4 3 7 1 0 Livingston 4 1 2 0 0 Shortell 3 1 0 0 0 Weddleton 4 0 9 1 0 Smith 3 1 0 0 0 Dower...
Educational reform is unworthy of the name, Mr. Hale believes. Chicago has made an important advance in abolishing departmental distinctions and making higher university training open only to exceptional men, but neither Chicago, nor Wisconsin, nor Rollins--the three most radical in education reform--have gone to the root of the ineffectiveness of colleges, the immaturity of the American undergraduate...
...House Plan, the Sterling Library, and Yale's Institute of Human Relations Mr. Hale holds are only imposing superficial palliative measures where drastic changes are needed. In his enthusiasm for his main thesis, Mr. Hale has overlooked the real value in such institutions as the House Plan. His claim that further development of social life in the Houses will strangle independent scholarship can hardly be justified. Quite aside from the possible disadvantages of an undergraduate life devoted to pure scholarship, there is no reason why the unpretentious social relationships in the Houses should interfere seriously with intellectual achievement...
...Hale goes too far in condemning the House Plan, there is nevertheless validity in his fundamental point that colleges, if they are to foster mental development on a high level, must limit their numbers to the few men who are equipped through interest, training, and ability, for really advanced academic work. Attempts to hedge between the democratic ideal of mass education and the ideal of developing intellectual leaders of some calibre have had unsatisfactory results in both directions, as the storm of criticism during the last few years shows. The colleges are squarely faced with the necessity of choosing between...