Judge — May 5, 1928 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Editor, Norman Anthony Education From the Inside Out EAN HANFORD of Harvard has made for the ddvocate a summary of the results of the reading period.” the important recent ex- periment in education from the inside out. For sev- cral weeks preceding the mid-years there was a suspension of lectures and tutorial conferences; a similar period will come in the three weeks before the final examinations in June. The idea was to let the students work on their own and find out what resources they had in their own heads. Eleven per cent of the juniors and thirty-six per cent of the seniors had no college en, ments during the read- ing period. No effort was made even to find out whether they stayed in Cambridge. What were the results? The use of books in the college library increased one hundred per cent. The withdrawal of books for use overnight increased ‘oni: sixth. The co-operative store had the larg of books in its history. When the examin st sales tions came, there was an increase of two per cent in honor grades, an increase of one per cent in satisfa grades and a decrease of three per cent in D's In those courses where reading assignme had been given with particular care the improvem was two or three times as great. e livelier intelli- gence and alertness which was shown in the exami- nations has been carried over into the work of the second half year, while the larger demand for books at the library continues. It is confidently expected that the final examinations will show a ten per cent increase in satisfactory grades. Perhaps it is true, as Dean Hanford says, that no other large university could have made such a success at the present time, because no other has the founda- tion that has been laid at Harvard by the tutorial system. There are, however, many other plans of similar intent now in operation in various places. ohn has at Wisconsin a college where there is no classroom teaching, and the emphasis is on joint research, Rollins College has set its students free from all formal routine for an experimental term of six months. Honor students at Swarthmore and else- where take no “courses” at all in their last two years, but spend their time getting ready for the final com- prehensive examinations. Only one college, so far as we know, has gone the whole y and abolished even examinations and degrees, and that one, Pocono, is too small and casual Ausciate Editors, Richard J, Waleb, Phil Rosa, Jack Stuttleworth Dramatic Editer, George Jean Nathas to afford a fair test of this most radical of all demic ideas, Certain it is, however, that a means is going to be found to make the atmosphere of educa- on clectric and just turn the student loose in it. The trouble with examinations and monitors and lectures and conferences is that too often they serve as li the current of knowl edge away from the student instead of into the very fibre of his being. Before they can be junked there will h to be climinated from college all except those who have a serious purpose to study and learn. And before that can be done we shall have to rid ourselves of the false notion that a college degree is a badge of social eminence. tning-arresters, divertin * + * Te satisfying word “It,” which was supposed to ave been first given its modern application by Elinor Glyn, now appears to have been another prod- uct of the genius of Kipling. Mr. J. DeLancey Fer- guson points out that it oceurs in “the story, Mrs. Bathurst, written in 1904. Ryceroft, the sailor, ¢ plaining why it is “some women'll stay in a man’s memory if. th once walk down a street,” says Tisn't beauty, so to speak, nor good talk neces- It's just It, little while ago Christopher Morley showed " nrad originated the term “Girl Friend.” If this keeps on, all the song writers, vaudeville artists and scenarists will be reading the classics in order to discover new slang. Younger Generation Notes. No. 19 Cranes Craccett of the Princeton freshman gym team has been consistently winning points in dual Both his legs have been partially paralyzed ce childhood, but he has developed his arms and shoulders magnificently. He hobbles up to the flying rings or side horse, tosses his cane aside and performs so brilliantly as to take first place time after time. In Los Angeles, Lester Plunkett has recently been made an } He he walks with a ernteh and has Jost a finger on each hand. Asking no concessions, he took the regular tests, made ood in life saving and swimming, hiked twenty-one miles, and passed the Scout's pace test after trying thirty times. As we may have said before, it takes all kinds to make a Generation, meets, igle Scou! only one kk —R.SILW. comicbooks.com