Word: holt
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...following article on the Rollins plan of education was written especially for the Crimson by Hamilton Holt, President of Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida...
...Hamilton Holt optimistically states his beliefs in regard to the future of education as typified by Rollins College, in an article appearing in today's CRIMSON. The basis of the system, consisting of two hour supervised study periods, is outlined in the article. The educational principle involved is that of absolute freedom for the individual in determining his field of intellectual foraging for knowledge...
...number of years hence, it must be confessed that it does not hold the promise suggested by its present brilliant success. Primarily, any venture of this type depends upon an immediate vigorous leader whose judgment of teaching ability is not limited by customary scholastic standards. This function Dr. Holt fulfills. But under a man of more limited human qualities it is easy to see that mere second rate teachers, or worse, job seekers, may take the place of the present professors...
...seems entirely possible, the Rollins experiment goes the way of all flesh and suffers from the lack of that vital infused spirit which transcends all systems, there could be no more stringent method of education than Dr. Holt's. For at Rollins, through the organization of the curriculum, the student is given less responsibility for the planning of his own life than at some of the older and more dreary colleges. And however deadening routine intellectual methods may be, the routine of actual living is more mentally stultifying. It is also conceivable that under less stimulating teachers, Rollins College...
...Benjamin Holt Ticknor, II200 * Arthur Whitfield Huguley 146 * Edward Sutherland Amaseen 130 * Samuel Lawrence Batchelder 127 * Stephen Pierce Duggan 126 * Phillips Finlay 121 John White Hallowell 115 Paul Allison Ketchum 86 William Henry MacHale 72 Paul Marlor Sweezy 70 James Barrett Baldwin 64 Rawn Brinkley 63 Frederick Herman Gade, II 60 Edward Kuhn Straus 58 John Adams Blanchard, II 53 Robert Livingston Scott 52 Marshall Stearns, Jr. 49 Andrew Glark Ingraham...