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...inception of this program will be one of the largest and most dramatic educational departures taken by the University since the war. By establishing tutorial for all, it will reconstruct the balance between the lecture system which provides knowledge impersonally by means of dictation, and small-group education which stimulates discussion. Moreover, it fashions the House system into a real center of the University's intellectual life...
This basic problem is the old one of small-group efficiency versus adequate representation. The Society must remain representative of the student body so that it will not degenerate to a club of self-styled BMOC's, as has happened at other colleges; it must not be unwieldy...
...Association, suggested to their convention in Milwaukee that any patient who could not afford that much and yet did not want cheap ward nursing, might put himself under one nurse's care with two or three other patients, who could split her charges. Some hospitals now have such small-group nursing...
...overcrowding, the tendency to "swamp" all of our great universities, which President Nielsen of Smith points out as one of the most alarming characteristics of education today, might be obviated by adopting this proposed Candian plan with a diametrically opposite object. The small colleges formed about the central university base would give the small-group, dormitory life which Stephen Leacock spoke of as the first prerequisite of a successful university, and for higher education there would still be the vast resources of the large plant. An an experiment, whether copied elsewhere or not, the Carnegle plan will be watched with...