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Mass production colleges and lack of association between professor and pupil have always been the targets of educational reformers. Two solutions are proposed: enlisting the aid of the student in his own education through comprehensive examinations; and a small and intimate community of teachers and pupils as the ideal setting for intellectual stimulus...
...advantages of the two solutions are obvious. For the comprehensive examination the student must do independent research, and is held for a knowledge of one particular field. His interest in that work is greatly stimulated. When undergraduates and professors are associated in a like activity their intimacy is inevitable; and this in turn leads to a common intellectual interest and a common place of work. Here may be found an atmosphere where minds may grow, and, "by attrition," to repeat President Lowell's words, "provoke one another." Daily Californian...
...going to be a Yale game in Cambridge next week end. There is some news; and the Vagabond in his earnest desire to keep his readers posted on really worth while events hastens to pass the glad tidings along to his readers together with a timely tip or two...
...Many complaints have been made against both place," said Henry Penny-packer '88. Chairman of the Committee on Admissions at Harvard when questioned concerning the proposed changes. "The comprehensive plan in particular is criticized because of its extreme difficulty, and we hope to secure some arrangement whereby the two methods may be consolidated...
There has been a great deal of adverse criticism of the system now in use, according to Mr. Pennypacker. Two methods of examination are possible: the restricted plan, whereby a student takes his examination during his preparatory years, and the comprehensive plan, which requires but one exam, and that during the summer of the year in which the student is to enter college...