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FLORENCE M. HOLT Newport News...
...custom of hurling brickbats at American colleges and their system of study has by now become rather hackneyed; still, when a man so distinguished as Hamilton Holt takes up the cudgels, he is sure to get a hearing. His assault on the lecture and recitation systems at the luncheon of the Harvard Teachers' Association Saturday has drawn no little attention, for he represents not impotent battering at what is established, but construction of something new, and, as he thinks, better. Rollins College, of which he is President, is, perhaps, the most radical departure from the norm of universities in America...
President Holt's basis of reasoning is sound; but his method of applying it is weak. This sort of training belongs in secondary schools; when it is employed in college, its arbitrary nature is opposed to the very independence and completeness of education at which it aims...
...PresidentSamuel Lawrence Batchelder 1313Benjamin Holt Ticknor 1420Thomas Wilson Dunn 1518Frederick Morgan Pruyn 1597For Vice PresidentPhillips Finlay 1655Marshall Stearns 1751Arthur Lancaster Watkins 1770Frederick Herman Gade 1816Emil Joseph Des Roches 1922For SecretaryClarence Douglas Dillon 871Stephen Pierce Duggan...
...pound class--Nathaniel Warner '30 defeated Holt (Y), fall...