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Contributions by three members of the University faculty are featured in the current number of the Atlantic Monthly. They are the work of Professor Emeritus G. H. Palmer '64, Professor W. B. Munro A. M. '99 and Professor Bliss Perry...
...Junior College, An Indictment" is the title of Professor Palmer's article, which aims to show that the four year college course is the most vital and worthwhile element in American higher education and would be seriously interfered with by the Junior College...
From the pen of Professor Emeritus George Palmer comes an indictment of the Junior College movement challenging not only for its close reasoning but also because of the ripe wisdom of its author...
Professor Palmer bases his case upon the assumption that the four year college course which "aims at teaching nothing useful, and so by its presence in a society disposed to measure everything by material standards becomes a factor of extremest use" is the most vital and worthwhile element in American higher education. To him the growth of the Junior College will cause the college to drop its first two years, add two more at the upper end and gradually but inevitably transform itself into a professional school. He sees this process already going on at Johns Hopkins and at Stanford...
With most of this one can agree fully but Professor Palmer leaves out of consideration one important point, the relationship of the over-population of the arts college with the Junior College. By calling attention to the abuses to which the Junior College idea is subject Professor Palmer has performed a highly valuable service. He has clarified the whole issue so far as the movement represented by Leland Stanford and Johns Hopkins is concerned. He has overlooked its high usefulness as a weapon for the protection of the arts college and the "scholarly amateur" from a mass of applicants...