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With only 23 concentrators, Music is one of the smallest fields in the College. It is the avowed intention of the Department to supply a broad musical background in history, forms, and appreciation, and it does not attempt to teach applied music (technique if an instrument or the voice) which would be required by a composer or a musician. It is very different from the Yale School of Music which is a separate unit and supplies a training similar to a conservatory...
This remarkable state of affairs seems to be the result of a policy based upon a misguided conception of the relative worth of teaching and scholarship. The department of Physics is supposed to teach Physics; at the same time, it appears, its function is to engage in exhaustive research work. At the moment, all its energies are directed toward the latter end. In theory, men are engaged for their teaching ability and their qualifications as research men. Actually, if a man has any teaching ability to begin with, he had best smother it at once if he expects to linger...
Under the new plan the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will set the standards and examine the candidate's knowledge of the subject matter which he proposes to teach, and the Faculty of Education will have charge of the study of educational material and apprentice teaching...
...Stuart Chapin, Chairman of the Department of Sociology at Minnesota, who will teach this summer at the Summer School, is along with Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, considered as an outstanding member of this field in the country. Sorokin was connected for many years with the department at Minnesota before coming here, and was a key man in its development to its present position of eminence...
...till now prospective teachers have had to decide whether they wished to master the theories of education or whether they wished to gain a complete knowledge of the field in which they were going to teach. This is the first time in any American university that the two methods of learning have been joined...