Word: hutchinses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The "open book" test tried last week was partly an experiment, partly an extension of President Robert M. Hutchins' four-year-old New Plan in which the student gets a degree by taking comprehensive examinations whenever he feels ready. "The student who thoroughly understands the subject," reasoned University authorities...
Despite what young Dr. Hutchins may say about the failure of eastern educational leadership, the leading universities of this section continue to forge ahead, each toward the attainment of its own particular educational ideal. Princeton will begin next year the "No-Course Plan" for Seniors of high standing; Harvard announces...
It is interesting to compare this attitude with that of President Hutchins of Chicago, and President Wilbur of Stanford. Both have implied that Harvard and Yale have little to offer the Westerner that he cannot obtain at his State University in a manner more suited to the western ideal of...
The list is as follows: Mesdames Edward Ballantine, Zachariah Chaffee, C. N. Greenough, Gordon Hutchins, G. W. Lee, Roger I. Lee, and Robert Saltonstall.
President Hutchins, like many American educators, lays too great emphasis upon mass education and general liberal training. Education by its very nature is an individual rather than a mass achievement. The aim in future collegiate education should not be the wholesale education of the masses irregardless of their aptitude, but...