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A revolutionary movement away from the established form of college education is embodied in the proposal of President Robert Mayard Hutchins of the University of Chicago to divide the university into three distinct units by splitting the present college into a "collegiate" and a "university division, leaving the status of...
The projected reform which is as yet only tentative, in theory would seem to be a progressive and worth-while move which would allow students to proceed in their education at a rate more in accord with individual mental capacities than is possible under present conditions. A difficulty present itself...
Progressive educators in recent years have established numerous "experimental" schools, very few of them conspicuously successful. If, however, President Hutchins has any real contribution to make to the advancement of education, the University of Chicago, with its high scholastic standard and efficient faculty, is an ideal "guinea pig."
N. P. Hallowell '32, B. E. Estes '32, and R. C. Aldrich '31 were the three Crimson runners in the mile, with Huckins of Dartmouth, and Hendricks and Martin of Cornell. Martin took the lead and tried in a vain attempt to draw the Crimson and Green runners out, but...
At Harvard, the tutorial system and the "reading period"; at Swarthmore and elsewhere, the honors plan; at Antloch the alternation of study with outside work. So the ferment goes on. We are fast getting away from what Hutchins of Chicago calls the country club idea of college and approaching a...