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Such were the remarks and hopes voiced from the speaker's table in last night's celebration of the physical middle-age but spiritual youth of the News. They do not constitute a "God's in his heaven." Utopian vision of the future, but a recognition of the trend of events already in progress. Here at Yale, the next few years will see the inception of the new Colleges System, the increasing importance of education as emphasized by the more rigorous (although broader and less specific) requirements of the new curriculum, and a greater interest in the informality of intramural...
...interest people in the progressive theory of their profession seems an almost insoluble problem. It involves making scholarship practical and making ordinary business men more thoughtful. The notion is certainly Utopian. On the other hand, university extension courses already afford a practical means of bringing the best university thought to bear on contemporary life. Their development can increase definitely, the universities' contribution to the country...
What might seem a Utopian scheme of University organization has been adopted by Johns Hopkins college recently. The plan, akin to the system soon to be put into effect at the University of Chicago, provides for the abolition of grades in courses, complete freedom of choice for the student within the selected field of his work, and the substitution of frequent conferences with professors for lectures and written quizzes. A comprehensive examination at the end of the student's work determines whether or not he is graduated...
There may be a tinge of the Utopian to the plan; it is certainly a far cry from the Widener mill. More than anything else it resembles the well-known traveling fellowships, except that in this case the holder of the award is presumably to reside at Harvard under the House Plan. But, behind the attractive details of the proposal is the fundamental idea that men of extraordinary ability commence their creative studies while they are still young, and that if the University is to aid them in their work to its best ability, it must free them from...
Response to appeals for candidates in extra-curricular activities competitions by the class of 1934, as compared to recent years, has been gratifying, although leaving a wide margin for improvement. Compared to the records of the classes of 1932 and 1933 this same record seems an Utopian ideal realized...