Word: mason
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Clark's statement of the general educational ideas of President Mason of Chicago, and his comment upon the recent and more established innovations at Harvard only confirm the general belief that there is a tendency in American education which is rapidly changing into a purpose. Modelled after the German universities, American colleges are breaking from the mould--tending not to an imitation of the English or any other type, but borrowing what seems good and inventing what seems better. The present generation of undergraduates is, so to speak serving as a test case in many laboratories; that the experimenters...
That the plan of Max Mason, president of the University of Chicago, for an "ideal college," in which examinations and credits would be abolished, is typical of the present tendency among American colleges to throw more responsibility upon the students, was the opinion expressed by W. E. Clark '03, visiting professor from the University of Chicago. President Mason's plans would make opportunity, rather than compulsion, the keynote of educational institutions, and would do away with examinations, the present stereotyped method of obtaining credits, and all routine except that which is self-imposed...
Although President Mason has announced no definite plants for changing the pedagogical methods of the University of Chicago he has indicated that the general line of improvement will be towards better equipping the student for his future work...
...Professor Clark pointed out several difficulties towards the establishment of this plan. "Many of the older faculty members," he said, "do not wish to give their time to instructing under graduates individually, and would strongly oppose the adoption of President Mason's reforms. At the same time, there are many students who come to college for a good time, with little interest in studies. This class, in addition to undergraduates who have not the initiative to work alone without assignments, will be entirely out of ploe under the proposed system...
This means that F.A. Clark '29, B.C. Tripp '28, and J.G. Douglas '30 are still slated to start in the forward line in place of J.E. Barrett '30, John Parkinson '29, and W.W. Lord '28, and that the starting backfield will be composed of J.P. Crosby '28, T.F. Mason '30, and W.R. Harper '30, with H.W. Burns '28 calling signals