Judge — January 25, 1930 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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| noun and unreasonable parent offered At four years to any college that would give his son a “custom-made education, a complete job to specifi cations,” and guarantee a result “sup quantity product.” According to the ie Atlantic, a certain college president lacked the nerve to accept the challenge. But Dr. Hamilton Holt, president of Rollins College, accepts it and says he will do the job for his regular rate of only $700 per year. Rollins College, says Dr. Holt, offers the following: A faculty chosen primarily for teaching, not research. The conference plan of study, with no lectures and no recitations. Classes limited to twenty students. A required minimum of eight hours’ work per day. Progress according to ability, rather than by the old lock-step system, Individual instruction throughout, with the rela between student and professor “constant, cooperative, in- formal, democratic, friendly and human.” By this method, says Dr. Holt, “we can guarantee the father to turn out a boy (and in a process that is alto- ther delightful to him) who will come wit f what that particular boy’s intellect is ca ionships neously comes the announcement from President k of Wisconsin that the program worked out for the past three years in the Experimental College by Alexander Meiklejohn has “proved itself with amazing success.” He proposes that it be applied to the entire student body. This would mean that students would de- vote only 60 per cent. of their time to a diversified course, and the remaining 40 per cent. to concentrated study of a specific broad topic, such as Athenian civilization. C attendance would be optional; there would be no qui and no examination, “Intellectual the sole objectiv: Dr. Frank believes that this “wi mean a gain of five to fifteen years in the intellectual life of the average student.” At Harvard, the tutorial system and the “reading period”; at Swarthmore and elsewhere, the honors plan Antioch the alternation of study with outside work. the ferment goes We are fast getting away from wl Hutchins of Chicago calls the country club idea of colle and approaching a type of education that will make men and women more fit to cope with the new civilization. Glenn wakening” would be 1 Anti-Democratic [™'s new penal code is the most perfect expression so far of Mussolini's determination. The state can do no wrong. Capital punishment is revived, for the sole pur- JUDGE 13 pose of avenging political murders. Killing a Fascist me death. Executions are by shooting in the back and 1 . Open abuse of the government is punish by imprisonment. So is belonging to a suppressed part 1 international political association, unless by the con- t of the government. Anybody who tries to start a led for three years at hard not be publ yor se panic on the bourse can be labor. Propagandists get twelve months, Juries are abolished. “Common erime,” says Alfredo Rocco, the ister of Justice, “is treated as political even whe motives were only partly political or socio-economic All this, of course, is nobody's business but that of the rns of Italy . is indicated by Signor Rocco's assertion that the code “is in the most perfect contrast with liberal and democratic conceptions of law.” We have to make contact with Mus solini at the armament conference in London, and we might as well understand from the outset how he regards our “liberal and democratic conceptions.” His philosophy is a consistent one and unless we are much mistaken he means to apply it abroad as well as at home. Min the Its meani for other nations, however. Children as a Cash Asset T & first nation-wide referendum on birth control was recently taken by our rural neighbor, Farm and Fire- side (which is being renamed The Country Home). Ex pressions of opinion were received from 13,431 readers, mostly in small towns and on farms. Of these, 67 per cent. favored “legalizing doctors to impart birth control methods to married couples who apply jointly.” This astonishing trend is explained on economic. grounds: Time was when an unlimited number of children, especially boys, was definitely a cash asset to a farm family. A farmer with six strong boys was almost cer- tain to do well. In these days of improved farm machin- ery, they would not be needed. Unlimited farm families are no longer a good investment.” That is truc so far as general farming goes, But where there are big acreages of berries to be picked or beets to be topped, the migratory labor camps swarm with children who are little better than slaves. In industri: towns children come in handy; North Carolina ample, allows children of fourteen who have only the fourth grade in school to be put to work for more than eight hours a day. In Tennessee there is no re- striction whatever on the employment of children as newsboys, bootblacks and in other street trades. A definite relation exists between child labor and birth control. Cut down the cash value of the child, and there'll be more sentiment—if sentiment is the word for it— against the rearing of large families. RIL W. comicbooks.com | | |